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Virtual Strategy Magazine: Executive Viewpoint 2013 Prediction: Bluelock
Bluelock's CTO Pat O'Day shares his industry predictions for 2013. What's the trend? Software defined datacenters, a data center where all infrastructure is virtualized and delivered as a service, will become the predominant product offering amongst cloud providers.
VMware vCloud Blog: Another VMware Cloud – F5 Networks DevCentral Runs Its Public Cloud on VMware
According to Jeff Browning, Senior Director of Online Strategy at F5 Networks, “With DevCentral’s move to Bluelock’s public cloud environment, we’ve increased DevOps agility, achieving faster, more frequent application updates that optimize development cycles.”
InformationWeek:Cloud Computing: Best And Worst News Of 2012
Bluelock is one of many regional providers of IaaS whose appearance was spurred by the prevalence of VMware virtualization in the data center and the availability of VMware-compatible cloud management software for service providers. VMware officials in February said they had 94 such partners. Joyent with its SmartOS open-source Solaris IaaS, running in Joyent data…
VentureBeat: Cloud-Proof Your Career
Cloud services company Bluelock put together an infographic for IT professionals. That’s timely, because in my experience hard-core developers (particularly those in mobile and web services) are often fairly knowledgeable about cloud offerings … but a significant chunk of the more IT-focused technology workers are not.
Redmond Channel Partner: VMware, EMC Spin Out New Cloud Business Unit 'Pivotal'
To provide these various blueprints, reference architectures and OS-loaded templates for vFabric Application Director, VMware launched its Cloud Applications Marketplace. Erez said the marketplace already hosts 100 downloadable solutions from 30 ISVs and systems integrators. Among them are solutions from Bluelock, Cognizant, Couchbase, Jaserpsoft, Puppet Labs, Radware, Riverbed and SugarCRM.
CloudTweaks: What Successful Businesses Have Been Developed By Providing SaaS, PaaS and IaaS
Although not very well known to the general public IaaS businesses do provide some of the most interesting services that could actually be used by individuals just as well as by some businesses. For example Bluelock provides companies the ability to build public, private or both cloud services and it further allows companies to monitor…
Web Host Industry Review: VMware Launches New Versions of Cloud Management Tools, Cloud App Marketplace
Many of VMware cloud service provider partners including Bluelock, iLand, NTT America and Savvis have already committed to offering new cloud application provisioning and maintenance services based on VMware vFabric Application Director.
SearchCloudComputing: VMware delivers template for deploying, modeling cloud apps
"Service providers are working hard to differentiate themselves from other IaaS vendors," he said. vCloud partners that plan to support VFAD blueprints include BlueLock, iLand, Savvis, NTT America and TechDemocracy.
SearchCloudComputing: Private cloud computing benefits occur on a case-by-case basis
Indeed, some people at IT organizations who have embarked on a traditional private cloud project are concerned that private cloud didn't fix the problems it was supposed to solve, said Pat O'Day, CTO at BlueLock, a cloud provider based on VMware's vCloud offering. "[Many] implemented the private cloud, but it didn't really turn them into…
NetworkWorld: What not to put in the cloud
The cloud promises unlimited capacity, pennies per hour to operate, 4+ nines of uptime and infrastructure managed by a dedicated staff. Even technical challenges around security and compliance can be achieved and are no longer suspect. So why wouldn't you send everything to the cloud?
SearchCloudProvider: More than a trend: Learn cloud skills or get left behind
(Part 2 of 2) In terms of real-world skills needed in a cloud environment, service provider IT professionals should consider brushing up on Ruby, .NET, Java, along with Chef, Puppet and Python. The Cloud Security Alliance is a good source for training and certification courses. And it helps to study the path of market-share leaders…
SearchCloudProvider: The need for cloud computing skills altering service provider IT jobs
(Part 1 of 2) "This is a quantum shift, a very big change," said Pat O'Day, chief technology officer (CTO) of Bluelock, an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider in Indianapolis, Ind. "It used to be you could spend 40 hours a week turning a wrench. That's not necessarily going to be the case anymore…
Network World: Gartner's IaaS Magic Quadrant: a who's who of cloud market
Bluelock is about the closest thing you'll get to a VMware public cloud. The company is part of VMware's vCloud Data Center Service, meaning it leverages VMware tools to power its offering. It is one of the first to roll out new VMware features and its product roadmap is aligned with that of VMware's, Gartner…
CRN: Look Who Made Gartner's Cloud Magic Quadrant
Independent cloud IaaS-focused provider Bluelock aims at the midsize and enterprise markets with a vCloud data center service for public and private cloud IaaS, with optional managed services.
Computerworld: IT jobs on the other side of the cloud
Jake Robinson remembers the day when he really understood what it means to work on "the other side of the cloud." It was Thanksgiving, a couple of years ago. A retail client of Robinson's employer, Indianapolis-based cloud service provider Bluelock, posted on its site an iPhone app designed to give users access to coupons and…
SearchCloudProvider: Best practices for VM backups: A cloud provider perspective
Bluelock, an IaaS provider in Indianapolis with experience in managing virtual infrastructure, became diligent about VM backups from the company's start, according to Ben Miller, product solutions director at Bluelock. "We actually started off by treating our own infrastructure as a service that we need to run our business," Miller said. "We back up every…
Modern Infrastructure: Cloud Computing: If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em
(Free download) Indeed, some people at IT organizations who have embarked on a traditional private cloud project are concerned that private cloud didn’t fix the problems it was supposed to solve, said Pat O’Day, CTO at Bluelock, a cloud provider based on VMware’s vCloud offering. Many “implemented the private cloud, but it didn’t really turn…
SearchCloudProvider: Top cloud services enterprises and SMBs want to buy
Alternative IaaS providers—including Bluelock, CSC, IBM, HP, Savvis and Terremark—are starting to gain traction as businesses seek more enterprise-grade services with higher reliability, tighter security and stronger service-level agreements.
Web Host Industry Review: cPanel Conference 2012: Web Hosting Trends and Analysis with Philbert Shih
BlueLock, a relatively new company, is growing at 50 percent. Overall, colo is growing at around 20 percent, hosting is between 23-27 percent, mass market hosting at 10-13 percent, and cloud is growing at between 40 and 60 percent.
SearchCloudProvider: Why CIOs have problems with cloud computing: Sunk costs in legacy IT
Those issues and the order they're in roughly match what Bluelock LLC, an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider based in Indianapolis, hears from enterprises and SMBs, according to Pat O'Day, Bluelock's chief technology officer. These sunk costs in IT are still depreciating, O'Day said. "This happened in virtualization too because a lot of companies…
IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: Bluelock CTO Pat O’Day on Improving the Cloud Computing Experience
There is no question that Cloud Computing is a hot topic today. Still, with all of the wonderful benefits the Cloud can offer, certain challenges arise as well. In the below interview, Bluelock’s CTO Pat O’Day outlines how to traverse some of these Cloud Computing roadblocks, and which applications are key to improving the user…
SearchCloudProvider: VMware vRAM still in place for VSPPs
The infrastructure for BlueLock Virtual Datacenters runs on Hewlett-Packard servers, packing in 512 GB of RAM each. VMware licensing is a very small percentage of BlueLock's overall costs, O'Day said. Given the 24 GB per VM cap, the company could probably add even more RAM to each server, O'Day said.
InformationWeek: Microsoft Vs. VMware: Who'll Be Private Cloud King?
VMware has commissioned a handful as its top-tier suppliers using vCloud Suite with data centers around the world. They include BlueLock, Dell, CSC, and AT&T in the U.S.; Singtel in Singapore; Softbank in Japan; and Colt and Deutsch Telekom's T-Systems unit in several European countries. CSC, Dell, and T-Systems are new additions to the top-tier…
CRN: This Week in Cloud
Bluelock introduced Bluelock 2-Series Virtual Datacenters, which offer customers a scalable, on-demand Virtual Datacenter for deployment of public cloud resources. Bluelock said it developed two infrastructure platforms with differing resource and service options so that customers could choose among various performance, features and security requirements.
VMBlog.com: 33 Cloud Service Providers Join Zerto Cloud Disaster Recovery Ecosystem
“For our enterprise customers, disaster recovery can be a critical step in the cloud journey,” said Ben Miller, Product Solution Director at Bluelock. “Before Zerto, a true multi-tenant, cloud-based DR service compatible with Bluelock’s VMware vCloud Datacenter Services was not possible. Zerto provides a secure hypervisor replication capability that will allow Bluelock to provide a…
SearchVMware: Ask the expert: What does the new VMware cloud certification mean?
(Free registration required to read) In this Q&A, we talk with Jake Robinson, a systems engineer at Indianapolis, Ind.-based data center provider Bluelock LLC., to find out what he thinks of the new VMware cloud certification and how interested IT professionals should prepare for a future exam.
TMCnet.com: F5 Q3 Earnings Up 16 Percent, Projects Downbeat Outlook
DevCentral runs F5’s cloud-based ADN solution in the Bluelock cloud, while simultaneously incorporating the best IT practices for added scale, control, and security. Previously, DevCentral was deployed in a basic, one-size-fits all enterprise IT environment, and needed a new business plan to strengthen its global community and accelerate and optimize their DevOps initiative.
Network World: SalesForce outages show SaaS customers largely at "mercy" of providers
If downtime is not an option, there is a growing industry around recovery as a service (Raas)... There are more than 50 providers in this space now, Morency says, ranging from big-name IaaS providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, Terremark and Sunguard, to other players such as Bluelock, Hosting.com and HP, along with others. These providers…
CIO: Amazon Faces Commodity Cloud Competition
Most of AWS's competition—companies such as Terremark, Savvis, Bluelock and their global brethren—pursue an enterprise strategy. Enterprise CSPs implement "enterprise-grade" infrastructure from Cisco, EMC, HP and their top-end competitors, and they boast about it, implying that its reliability outstrips AWS.
IT Business Edge: Gaining Visibility into the Cloud
One of the reasons that a lot of IT organizations are not all that comfortable with cloud computing is because they don’t have a lot of visibility into the true costs of cloud computing. The biggest fear, of course, is paying for cloud resources that don’t wind up being used because the compute resources for…
Virtual Strategy Magazine: Case Study: Microspoft Sharepoint in the Cloud - Bluelock Helps Codesigned Deliver for WellStar Health Systems
Codesigned is a technology services firm focused on high quality, branded collaboration solutions, specializing in Microsoft SharePoint. With a team of experienced consultants, system engineers, SharePoint Architects, .NET developers and web developers, Codesigned provides enterprise-class collaboration consulting, large-scale implementation planning and installation, design and deployment of custom features and customized private cloud and mobile solutions.…
Computer Business Review: F5 migrates DevCentral to Bluelock’s public cloud environment
F5 migrates DevCentral to Bluelock’s public cloud environment. Collaboration with Bluelock provides DevCentral with simplified lifecycle migration from development, to test, to production. Application Delivery Networking (ADN) firm F5 Networks has migrated its global online community, DevCentral, to Infrastructure-as-a-Service company Bluelock's public cloud environment. DevCentral now runs F5 cloud-enabled ADN applications in multiple Bluelock Virtual…
Network World: F5's DevCentralized Gets Cloudy
F5's DevCentralized Gets Cloudy F5 Networks' community can now do all the cool things it's been doing in the cloud. By Zeus Kerravala on Thu, 06/14/12 - 11:14am. Communities of interest have been all the rage over the past few years. Just this year alone we’ve seen Infoblox, Aruba and other tech vendors launch online…
Information Week: Bluelock Lets Customers See Cloud Charges, Control Bills
VMware supplier's tool is designed to prevent cloud bill shock by telling customers what their bill will be and how to adjust usage to stay within the monthly budget. It's not uncommon to hear cloud customers talk about how their cloud costs got away from them. If you don't need a set of servers you've…
Wired: Pat O'Day among Top 10 Cloud Influencers, Thought Leaders
Pat O'Day, Bluelock's CTO and Co-founder, was named to Wired.com's Top 10 List of Cloud Influencers and Thought Leaders. Here's what Wired.com had to say about O'Day: "As a visionary behind the IaaS business model, O’Day helped Bluelock become one of the most strategic VMware cloud providers and one of the first to offer the…
CMSWire: Adobe Updates on Communities, eCommerce and a new Cloud Manager
Adobe announced expansions to its online customer experience platform, Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, at the EMEA Digital Marketing Summit. New cloud capabilities with Adobe CQ Cloud Manager allow marketers to easily spin up new campaign sites through a SaaS-based set of web experience services. Cloud service for Adobe CQ Cloud Manager is coming soon to…
Ask the Expert: Using vCloud Director 1.5 in the Real World
Bluelock's Jake Robinson, Systems Engineer, shares tips on deploying and using VMware's vCloud Director 1.5. Preparing for vCloud Director 1.5 deployment, networking and security considerations, and integrating other VMware products are some of the topics covered. VMware's latest update also boasts support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 databases.
InformationWeek: Citrix Defends CloudStack's Value vs. OpenStack
Citrix executive, Peder Ulander states that CloudStack will be another choice for building private clouds. Can CloudStack and OpenStack, two similar open source projects, survive? Basically, Ulander makes the case that CloudStack and OpenStack are different enough that there's room for more than one open source project.
Bluelock lands on TechTarget's Top 10 Cloud Providers of 2012
A team of TechTarget contributors worked together to come up with this year's top 10 cloud providers. There has been a lot of change in the cloud computing arena since last year’s top 10 list. The raft of new technologies delivered over the past year or two has enticed many larger IT shops to launch…
NetworkWorld: 10 Most Powerful IaaS Companies
NetworkWorld has compiled a list of the "10 Most Powerful IaaS Companies" in the public cloud infrastructure as a service arena. This list was assembled by analysts who watch the public cloud Infrastructure as a Service scene very closely. Each analyst was asked to name the companies they believed have the most influence - whether…
Computerworld: How to Wrangle Your Virtual Machines
Virtualization cuts hardware, power and real estate costs by combining multiple servers, networks and storage arrays into virtual pools. But for users like Pat O'Day, Chief Technology Officer at Bluelock, managing those resource pools means wrestling with multiple applications. IT wants fewer, more comprehensive virtualization management tools. But for now, specialized vendors tackle different challenges.…
HISTalk: An Health Information Technology Moment
HISTalk recently interviewed Andy Hoover, IT Director, at WoundVision. WoundVision is an Indianapolis vendor of risk assessment software and thermal imaging tools for early pressure ulcer detection. They recently migrated their platform from Amazon’s EC2 public cloud computing to Bluelock Virtual Datacenters.
Computerworld: Disaster Recovery on Double Duty
Computerworld's Robert Scheier explains how virtualization and replication technologies protect data from disaster, while keeping business services humming. Some providers say cloud-based disaster recovery will bring the benefit of true disaster recovery, rather than just backup, to small and midsize businesses that until now couldn't afford it. Pat O'Day, co-founder and CTO of Bluelock, a…
CRN Names Bluelock to 2012 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors List
Bluelock, a certified VMware vCloud® Datacenter provider of Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud, today announces it was named one of the 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors by CRN. The comprehensive list highlights the most innovative companies across the five major cloud categories: cloud platforms, cloud infrastructure, cloud storage, cloud security and cloud software.…
Talkin Cloud: Bluelock Datacenters Now Run VMware vCloud Director 1.5
TalkinCloud.com, a go-to guide for cloud computing in the IT channel, featured Bluelock's upgrade to VMware vCloud Director 1.5 in their article "Bluelock Datacenters Now Run VMware vCloud Director 1.5," by Brian Taylor. Taylor reports that Bluelock's upgrade to VMware vCloud Director 1.5 provides an enhanced user interface and added capabilities within Bluelock's Virtual Datacenters.
AMD Cores Power Bluelock’s Cloud Business
AMD's lead evangelist, Vlad Rozanrich, spoke with Bluelock's Directory of Technology, Aaron Branham, about Bluelock's decision to power their public cloud infrastructure with AMD-based HP ProLiant servers. Branham notes Bluelock's new POD architecture employs AMD Opteron™ processors because on their price, performance, and platform versatility. Improvement from this hardware upgrade include an increased size of…
CRN: Bluelock Among 20 Coolest Cloud Infrastructure Vendors
CRN named Bluelock to their 20 Coolest Cloud Infrastructure Vendors list for 2012 for the second year in a row. CRN states these cloud infrastructure vendors host business applications, provision applications on-demand, and store and secure data in the cloud. Vendors listed deliver with private cloud, public cloud or hybrid cloud strategies. CRN notes Bluelock's…
Bluelock Announces Upgrade to VMware vCloud Director 1.5
Bluelock today announced the availability of VMware vCloud Director 1.5 in its certified VMware vCloud Datacenter Service. This new release delivers increased agility, while making it easier for customers to adopt a cloud computing model leveraging their existing IT investments.
Registration Open: Hybrid Cloud: A Pragmatic Approach for the Enterprise
Registration is now open for Bluelock's upcoming free webinar "Hybrid Cloud: A Pragmatic Approach for the Enterprise." Two lucky webinar attendees will win a Kindle Fire! Learn how hybrid cloud is evolving the way IT departments and business units interact with technology and get more leverage from infrastructure resources. Pat O’Day, CTO, will explain the…
Nine Lives Media Inc. Names Bluelock to the MSPmentor 100 Global List
Bluelock, a certified VMware vCloud® Datacenter provider of Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud, today announces that the company has been named to the fifth-annual MSPmentor 100 Global Edition, a distinguished list and research report identifying the world’s top 100 managed service providers (MSPs). This is the third consecutive year Bluelock has been named…
Bluelock Named to 2012 MSPmentor 100 List
Bluelock was just named #43 on the 2012 MSPmentor 100 Global Edition, a list of the world's top 100 managed service providers. This is the third straight year Bluelock has been named to this list. MSPmentor writes "[Bluelock's] winning mix of cloud services and traditional managed services has allowed them to generate more than 40…
VMware Inks Multiple Hybrid Cloud Partnerships
A new VMware vCloud Connector plugin, available later in 2012, is designed to give VMware vSphere partners, like Bluelock, a single management view to move workloads around. VMware’s announcement, made at VMware Partner Exchange in Orlando, was called a “milestone” in the hybrid cloud market. Notably, cloud service provider Bluelock has used VMware's vCloud Datacenter…
VMware Rapidly Expands Cloud Network
VMware users who want to run virtualized workloads in the cloud now have 94 cloud service providers to choose from in a wide variety of worldwide geographies. In addition, VMware is redoubling its efforts to make those service providers more functional and effective.
Bluelock's 2012 Cloud Predictions
Bluelock's CTO, Pat O'Day, shared his 2012 cloud predictions with Virtual Strategy Magazine. Pat emphasized the proliferation of selling cloud services in 2012. Everyone will feel compelled to have a cloud offering because the customer community is starting to show significant interest and actual buying behavior for cloud services. The barrier to entry into the…
When Amazon's EC2 Isn't Potent Enough For Your Cloud Hosting
If you are looking to virtualize some of your data center and host it in the cloud, you probably have heard about Amazon's EC2 by now. But one IT shop used EC2 as a strawman to consider what they really needed from their eventual service provider. It is interesting and instructive to see the steps…
Bluelock Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of Leading Analyst Firm's Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
INDIANAPOLIS, IN, Dec 19, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) - Bluelock, a certified VMware vCloud(R) Datacenter provider of Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has placed Bluelock in the "Leaders" quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service" (IaaS).
Gartner Has First Ever IaaS Magic Quadrant Report
A new Gartner Magic Quadrant report is available this week covering the public cloud computing vendors. Bluelock got props, among other big names included Amazon Web Services, Terremark, Savvis and CSC. The report is very detailed in the usual Gartner manner and is a must-read for enterprise IT architects who are evaluating players in this…
VMware vCloud Connector 1.5 Adds Search Power
Free upgrade for vSphere and vCloud Director users includes search function to help you easily locate virtual workloads. VMware released free upgrades to vCloud Connector for users of the virtualization company's vSphere operating system for physical data center environments and vCloud Director for managing private clouds. The release adds a search function not even in…
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): Buying Guide
Cloud computing infrastructure-as-a-service is redefining hosting, enabling companies to rent computing and networking capability using a pay-as-you-go model. Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is arguably the future of hosting. Traditional hosting companies, carriers and a bevy of service-provider newcomers all have a stake in this new market space.
ComputerWorld: Virtual Machine Cloud Replication and Restoration to Boom
By 2014, almost one in three midsize businesses will be using a recovery-as-a-service (RaaS) with the ability to backup and restore virtual machines (VMs), according to Gartner. Gartner predicted that 30% of companies will use RaaS over the next few years, with the market being driven, for now, by midsize companies. The research firm defines…
VMware: Introducing Public Cloud Diaries - Stories from VMware Customers
Welcome to the Public Cloud Diaries – an ongoing project that documents the business situations and challenges that companies have experienced when moving to the public cloud. Dimensional Research, a company that provides practical research services for technology companies, interviewed real VMware customers across various industries to examine their individual challenges and needs when choosing…
TechTarget: Minimizing Public Cloud Disruptions
Cloud computing depends on connectivity and availability, but those can be far from perfect with some providers. Disruptions to a public cloud can impair the productivity of an entire organization, unless data center administrators know what to do when it happens—and it will happen. In this tip, you will learn how to choose a public…
Lead411: Bluelock: Floating on Cloud 9
Cloud computing is hot these days; there’s no denying it. And Bluelock, provider of enterprise cloud hosting solutions, is riding that wave today. The company’s phenomenal growth of 939% from 2008 to 2010 put it high on the list of the Technology 200. That growth, says CEO Christopher Clapp, comes from several things: the company…
Press Release: Lead411 Launches 2nd Annual Technology 200 List
Lead411 just announced the final rankings for its Technology 200 List including the fastest growing tech companies within the US based on percentage revenue growth.
Inside Indiana Business: Hoosier Tech Companies Among Fastest Growing
Five Indiana companies are on this year's Technology 200 list compiled by Lead411. The rankings of the fastest growing tech businesses in the U.S. are based on revenue growth. The companies on this year's list were chosen from more than 600 applicants. The Indiana companies that made the rankings include Slingshot SEO, BlueLock, iGoDigital, RICS…
VentureBeat: Technology 200: Mobile, Interactive Marketing, and Crowdsourcing. Oh My!
The startup space is getting more and more crowded with companies that want to skyrocket to fame and riches, but only a handful actually get there. Each year, Lead411, an information services company, hosts the Technology 200, a list focused on the top revenue-producing startups in technology. The list is ranked based on the highest…
Cloud Computing Journal: Why History Will Repeat Itself
Article by Bluelock's CTO Pat O'Day: The most important thing is to determine what the right use cases are for your organization to adopt cloud. Battles over formats and standards in the technology industry aren't new. Whether it was e-mail, word processing, graphical images or even some more current like the apps on your smart…
The Globe: Cloud Hosting and Virtualization: New Solutions for Small Business
Virtualization, which allows one server to virtually act as several virtual servers, has become an increasingly important technology for businesses of all sizes. And we're seeing a reflection of that in the marketplace.
Indiana Business Journal: Indianapolis Tech Companies Seeded by Big '90s Success
Money and experience have flowed to a number of firms from Software Artistry executives.
Datamation: VMware vCloud Enables New Global Cloud
VMware vCloud program lets enterprises acquire, provision, manage and move between multiple service providers. VMware is expanding its vCloud program, enabling enterprises to buy and move their virtualized assets across multiple service providers. The vCloud is VMware's program for service providers to run VMware virtualized clouds. The vCloud program was announced last year and is…
enStratus Adds Cloud Management Support for Bluelock
Minneapolis, MN (September 20, 2011) – enStratus announced today that it has added support for Bluelock Virtual Datacenters. With this new support, Bluelock clients gain cloud management, governance, and automation capabilities provided through the enStratus platform.
VirtualizationReview: VMware Shifts to the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
By combining new and existing products in a package designed to facilitate customers using 5,600 VMware service providers in 62 countries, VMware is emphasizing its drive to the enterprise hybrid cloud. In so doing, The company is offering its vCloud customers a myriad of cloud services based on VMware cloud infrastructures that are compatible with…
CRN: Bluelock Portfolio Among 15 Hot Products From VMware Partners at VMworld 2011
Service provider Bluelock launched a support tool called Bluelock Portfolio, which gives organizations insight into the utilization costs of their cloud infrastructure, which they can then use to optimize their operations and ensure that their getting the ROI they're seeking.
DatacenterKnowledge: VMware's Vision: Connected Global Clouds
To open VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas VMware launched several new vCloud offerings and a new extension of its Cloud Application Platform strategy, vFabric Data Director. VMware (VMW) announced several new vCloud offerings to help enterprises connect and manage cloud services from the large network of service providers. VMware announced Global Connect, an optional feature…
InformationWeek: VMware's Next Act: Operations Expert
When it comes to transforming the data center, VMware is writing the story. And the theme is automation. There are 800,000 IT staffers now carrying the title of virtual machine administrator, said VMWare CEO Paul Maritz in an address to 19,000 attendees at VMworld Monday. What he didn't say was that he's trying to make…
MarketWire: Bluelock Introduces Bluelock Portfolio™
First cloud-aware decision support tool enables customers to truly understand the cost of IT, helping to make fast, effective decisions and avoid unnecessary spending. Bluelock, a certified VMware vCloud® Datacenter provider of Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud, today announced the availability of Bluelock Portfolio™, the first cloud-aware decision support tool. Bluelock Portfolio offers…
MarketWatch: Bluelock Announces Support for Global Connect, New Feature for VMware vCloud Datacenter Service
Leading VMware vCloud(R) Service Providers Partner to Develop Globally Federated vCloud Datacenter Services. Today at VMworld® 2011, Bluelock, a certified VMware vCloud® Datacenter Services provider, announced support for VMware vCloud® Datacenter Global Connect, an optional feature of VMware vCloud® Datacenter Services. Global Connect will enable customers to use cloud computing from multiple providers across the…
The Register: VMware Orders vCloud Army Across Five Continents
VMware envisions a world where applications can roam across one big intercloud. Apps won't just jump from internal data centers to public cloud services, the company believes. They'll move from cloud to cloud like phone calls across cell networks. That's why VMware is keen on getting its vSphere server virtualization not only in the corporate…
CNET: VMworld Opens with New Products, New Attacks
As virtualization leader VMware opens its annual VMworld conference in Las Vegas today, it's launched a raft of new products designed to ease managing virtual machine technology for corporations, as well as lined up several new partnerships to help companies find, connect and manage its cloud services.
Virtualization Review: VMware Has Living Proof: Cloud Users Do Exist
VMware is understandably anxious to prove that cloud users actually exist and are not, as VMware Senior Director of Cloud Services Mathew Lodge blogs, “a figment of a fevered imagination.” Toward that end, Lodge has posted the details on six VMworld Cloud Infrastructure and Management sessions where the reclusive and elusive cloud user can be…
SearchCloudComputing: VMware vCloud Director 1.5
Along with the release of vSphere 5, widely acclaimed as a technical success and a potential licensing crisis, VMware has unveiled vCloud Director 1.5 (vCD 1.5). Both are not available yet, but the details have been released. Users hail it as a great start to getting a viable private cloud from VMware.
CBR: VMware Revamps vSphere for Cloud Era
VMware has updated its vSphere virtualisation suite and introduced a new Cloud Infrastructure Suite that it hopes will make, "infrastructure go away," according to CEO Paul Maritz. Maritz added that VSphere 5 is the, "first step along the road to a more automated world where infrastructure is something people can just rely on." VMware's boss…
The Register: VMware Launches vSphere 5 into the Clear Blue Sky
VMware has unveiled the latest version of its vSphere hypervisor – vSphere 5 – along with a suite of additional technologies for building what the world insists on calling "infrastructure clouds." The Cloud Infrastructure Suite includes new versions of the company's vShield security platform; its vCenter Site Recovery Manager, for disaster recovery; and its overarching…
SearchCloudComputing: Is VMware vCloud Express in Trouble?
Only two years after VMware announced vCloud Express, the program appears to be foundering, undone by a lack of both serious interest from end users and of compelling remuneration for providers. vCloud Express was launched in 2009 as a way for managed hosting providers with a VMware customer base to offer an Amazon Web Services…
IBJ: City's Fast-Growing Companies Surge With Economic Recovery
With an economic recovery blowing against their backs, a number of Indianapolis-area companies saw growth slingshot ahead in 2010. Technology was a common field for this year’s list of fastest-growing private companies, but some also specialized in mortgages, furniture and home health care. Right place, right time—that’s the story behind BlueLock’s meteoric 939-percent growth over…
IBJ: Bluelock Among "Hottest Companies in the Midwest" Award
In order to recognize the fastest growing technology companies in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin, Lead411 is proud to announce the release of its "Hottest Companies in Midwest" award. The Indiana companies on the list include Blue Lock, Scale Computing, ChaCha, Angie's List and ExactTarget.
Virtual-Strategy: Bluelock's Quest for an Efficient, Reliable & Cost-Effective Datacenter
Cloud service providers have carved out an important niche in business today, having aligned themselves with the latest technology phenomenon, cloud computing. Initially popular thanks to constrained budgets post-recession, cloud computing has fast become indispensable to companies of all sizes that wish to slash costs and tap into a more agile and scalable infrastructure. Although…
IBJ: Christopher Clapp's Reading Habits
As you’ll learn in this weekend’s IBJ, cloud computing firm BlueLock is the fastest-growing private company in the Indianapolis area. You can read the financial details for yourself, but it’s fair to say they’re scorching. Most of that growth was managed by a team spearheaded by John Qualls, and then last year the firm brought…
eWeek: Bridging Private and Public Clouds
Scaling IT means using tools and services on both sides of the cloud divide. A divide as real as any weather front separates private, wholly owned data centers from public, capacity-for-hire cloud providers. There is a role for IT in creating a bridge across this divide as virtualization of all types enables more efficient application…
InfoWorld: Is A Public VMware Cloud Coming?
In an exclusive interview, VMware CEO Paul Maritz talks about an elite group of providers that will offer VMware infrastructure for hybrid enterprise clouds. In most cases, a public cloud service will charge more to host your infrastructure long term than it would cost you to purchase and maintain that infrastructure yourself. By the same…
IBJ: Hacking Attacks Reminder For Data Caution In Cloud Computing
Hacking attacks against Sony and other companies in recent months have a cloud hanging over cloud computing—the hot trend of storing data on remote servers and accessing it through the Internet. “It sets everybody back,” Pat O’Day, CTO for infrastructure-as-a-service company Bluelock, said of the spate of high-profile data breaches. O’Day was among panelists in…
NetworkWorld: Will Cloud Computing Make Traditional Vendor Relationships Obsolete?
What happens when you no longer care what hardware your apps are running on? Not to mention what operating system or virtualization platform. Network World has conducted multiple tests of cloud-based services over the past year, and our overarching conclusion is that shifting compute processes to the cloud can help companies save money and become…
Experts-Exchange: Is There a Safer Cloud Option than Amazon?
Amazon Web Services provides an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud that small startups to enterprise organizations have trusted because it is scalable, comprehensive and affordable. And yet, the outage that led to sites like Foursquare and Reddit being dark for a full day raises questions of reliability. There are a number of web services…
Datamation: 15 Cloud Computing Firms to Watch
For enterprises considering moving their IT operations to the cloud, the market can feel a little overwhelming. Datamation highlighted 15 promising cloud computing vendors carving out a niche for themselves in this emerging arena. Though by no means comprehensive, this list serves as a primer for some of the innovative startups whose offerings range from…
SYS-CON: Bluelock Optimizes VMware Cloud Services Capabilities with Xsigo
Xsigo Systems, Inc., a provider of I/O virtualization, on Wednesday announced that Bluelock, an experienced provider of Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud, has deployed Xsigo virtual I/O in their VMware vCloud® services data center. As a result, Bluelock has boosted scalability with 8X greater virtual machine capacity, and reduced infrastructure hardware requirements by…
The Register: VMware Surfs Virtualization Wave in Q1
VMware has been able to more or less hold the line on its pricing for its enterprise server virtualization tools despite intense competition from Microsoft and Citrix Systems. But with the first big wave of enterprise license agreements coming up for renewal, the virtualization juggernaut has had to start discounting a bit. Luckily, VMware is…
CIO: How Cloud Computing Rose From Lehman Brothers' Ashes
The inside story of how Lehman Brothers is being dismantled in the Bluelock cloud. James Johnson, Lehman Brother's CIO, had to support current business and at the same time support the wind-down of global assets in the wake of filing for Chapter 11 and the economic meltdown. Johnson and his team concluded that that the…
Virtual-Strategy Magazine: Q&A with Pat O'Day of Bluelock
Bluelock's CTO and Co-founder, Pat O'Day, spoke with Virtual-Strategy Magazine covering an overview of Bluelock and where it fits into the cloud computing ecosystem. Pat discusses Bluelock's target clients, cloud security concerns, virtualization strategies, and barriers to entry. Is cloud computing right for all companies and applications?
CRN: The Top 20 Cloud Infrastructure Vendors Of 2011
Here are 20 cloud infrastructure vendors that are making the infrastructure game their own and altering the way IT is consumed. "Bluelock comes at the cloud from a different way, offering cloud computing and managed services backed by VMware vCloud Datacenter Services."
Windows IT Pro: Choosing a New IT Platform
One of the most important projects any IT department can undertake is the selection of a new IT platform. “If you’ve already decided on VMware for your virtualization stack, moving to the cloud will be made easier by using VMware’s vCloud Director product, which connects virtualization to the cloud orchestration layer used by VMware vCloud…
InformationWeek: RPath Simplifies Building Workloads For Data Center, Cloud
Operating system expertise is combined with a cross-hypervisor approach to offer a "service factory" for the visual assembly of software stacks. RPath has added a drag-and-drop interface to its software stack building system, now called rPathX6, to make it easier to build a virtual appliance or other software stack and track each of its configurations.…
ITWorldCanada: Device Makers to Launch Business App Stores
With new tablets and app stores being unveiled every week, app store maker Partnerpedia says tablet and smart phone vendors will be building out business-focused app stores in the near future. The firm launched a software-as-a-service platform to help mobile device vendors develop their own branded enterprise app stores and also works with enterprise IT…
InformationWeek: VMware Moves Into Hybrid Cloud Management
VMware is taking its willingness to manage the virtual infrastructure a step further than it's gone before. The company announced Tuesday that it was mapping the topology of physical and virtual systems so that virtual machines could be deployed either inside the data center or outside beyond the firewall in the cloud. In the past,…
NetworkWorld: VMware Makes Cloud Jumping Easy
VMware's vCloud Connector (VCC) is a free VMware virtual appliance and vSphere plug-in that makes it a snap to transfer VMware virtual machines, templates and vApps between clouds. In a typical VMware cloud setup, if you assume that VMware ESX installations are clouds, one needs to export VMs to a temporary location, then import them…
ComputerWorld: Virtualized Disorder
IT dreams of a single console for managing virtualization sprawl, but today's tools are piecemeal. Robert Scheier argues IT wants fewer, more comprehensive virtualization management tools. But for now, specialized vendors tackle different challenges. Virtualization cuts hardware, power and real estate costs by combining multiple servers, networks and storage arrays into virtual pools. But for…
Smart Enterprise: Cloud and Mobile Computing - Better Together
As you surely have noticed, IT is going through a radical change. The availability of on-demand computing infrastructure, services and applications over the Internet — i.e., the cloud — is pushing the organizational computing paradigm from primarily an internal proprietary function to an extended services environment. At the same time, mobile devices are becoming the…
SYS-CON: Bluelock Takes an IT-Centric Cloud Approach to Hybrid Cloud
Bluelock has been a vCloud service provider for the past year and has taken an enterprise IT-centric approach to their cloud services. They are not going after the SMB web hosting market, and don’t want to sell to everybody. Their primary focus is on mid-tier enterprises looking for a provider that will deliver cloud in…
ComputerWorld Canada: Clearing Up the Cloud
The confusion over cloud service model definitions continues to be driven by the pace of evolution in the market. Defining the myriad service offerings to find the right formula for your business, author Jennifer Kavur demystifies the cloud. The industry continues to spend a lot of time defining what the three cloud service models are.…
PCToday: Managing Your SLAs
Pat O'Day, Bluelock's CTO, was featured in PCToday.com's digital magazine. The article titled "Managing Your SLAs," by Rod Sher, is a service level agreement primer that explains how most executives fail to use SLAs properly. O'Day adds "An SLA is the way most service providers offer some level of commitment in writing to a specific…
CloudCoverTV: Top 10 Cloud Providers of 2011
SearchCloudComputing.com's Top Ten Cloud Providers for 2011 is here! Jo Maitland and Carl Brooks of CloudCoverTV discuss the winners and the losers on this week's episode. Most of the same names are there but we grade their performance over the last year and add a few new ones as well.
Bluelock in Top 10 Cloud Computing Providers of 2011
CloudCoverTV decided it was time to blow the cobwebs off their list of top 10 cloud computing service providers. Much has happened since last year's top 10, and we're proud to introduce the best of the best for 2011. Our rankings are based on customer traction, solid technical innovation and management track record.
Datamation: VMware Pushes Hybrid Cloud With vCloud Connector
VMware advanced its cloud computing strategy this week with the release of VMware vCloud Datacenter services from partners and a free plug-in called vCloud Connector that gives customers the valued "single pane of glass" management view of public and private cloud services.
NetworkWorld: Steer your Career to the Cloud
Dave DiMeo, service delivery network operations manager at Ford Motor has a mouthful of a title. And while the word "cloud" isn't part of it, it might as well be. The service delivery network, what DiMeo calls a cloud, provides a way for Ford to mesh data from external vendors and information stored within the…
PCWorld: VMware Preps Public Cloud With Services, Connector
Providing a vital link between internal and external clouds, VMware plans to release in March an adapter for moving virtual machines between a hosted service offering and an organization's own internal systems, the company announced Tuesday. In addition, the company announced that three service providers -- BlueLock, Colt and Verizon -- are now offering cloud…
CRN: VMware Tackles Management Challenges in Hybrid Cloud
VMware has been banging the drum for hybrid public and private cloud infrastructure, and at VMware's Partner Exchange conference, which is being held this week in Orlando, the drumming is about to get louder. VMware unveiled a free plug-in Tuesday called vCloud Connector, which lets customers deploy and manage virtual machines in private and public…
MarketWire: VMware and Partners Deliver Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
VMware, the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced it has reached a milestone in delivering the enterprise hybrid cloud with the availability of VMware vCloud® Datacenter services from BlueLock and Colt and beta services available from Verizon. VMware also introduced VMware vCloud Connector, a free plug-in that will allow all VMware vSphere®…
Frugal Tech Show Interview with Bluelock CTO
The Frugal Tech Show, hosted by Ken Hess and Jason Perlow, is a podcast series highlighting frugal IT solutions, news, and interviews with top technology executives. Bluelock's CTO, Pat O'Day, gave an interview for their featured February 4th episode. The interview covers the benefits and services of BlueLock as a cloud hosting provider built off…
Bluelock Named one of the Best Cloud Computing Services for 2010 by HostReview
BlueLock, an experienced provider of cloud hosting and managed IT services, today announces that the company has been named to HostReview’s 2010 Web Host Awards’ Best Cloud Computing Service list. HostReview’s annual Best Web Hosting Awards recognize innovators and market leaders, rewarding outstanding contributions within the web hosting industry. Read press release.
iPartners Selects Bluelock as Cloud Hosting Provider
Bluelock, an experienced provider of cloud hosting and managed IT services, announces that iPartners, an on-demand business intelligence and management reporting company for the property and casualty insurance industry, has selected Bluelock as its cloud provider. With the announcement, iPartners will use Bluelock’s cloud-based disaster recovery services to back up their data and systems hosted…
Inside Indiana Business: The Tech Rush in Indiana
The blogosphere has been ablaze with some calling the deal "genius" while others calling for greater Securities and Exchange Commission scrutiny of these types of secondary market transactions. While the terms of the deal may be subject to interpretation, there is little doubt that companies in the tech sector will continue to make front page…
SBNOnline: John Qualls Ensures a Positive Client Experience at Bluelock
Do you know what a client goes through to do business with your company? John Qualls does. It’s a key reason why the co-founder of BlueLock can feel pretty confident that his customers are smiling after they have dealings with his people.
CRN: Cloud Computing Vendors Ring In New Year With Big Funding, Investment Boosts
Cloud computing vendors may be popping the bubbly well into the new year, as a handful of promising cloud computing startups have started off 2011 with sizeable financial injections to get the ball rolling.
Virtual-Strategy Magazine: 2011 Predictions: Bluelock
2011 will be a tough but good year for cloud computing. It is the year that the mainstream enterprise will start to give cloud a serious look and accelerate into full-on tire kicking mode.
Datamation: 5 Cloud Computing Predictions for 2011
This past year has been a good one for cloud computing. According to Gartner, the cloud services market grew to $68.3 billion in 2010, a 16.6 percent increase from 2009 revenue of $58.6 billion. Gartner predicts that by 2014, cloud services revenue will balloon to $148.8 billion worldwide.
CRN: 11 Cloud Computing Predictions for 2011
If 2010 was the year of the cloud, then the cloud computing market will be a brand new beast come 2011. By many accounts, 2011 will be the year that the hype surrounding cloud computing will become a reality and partners and end users will start realizing the actual value of the cloud versus determining…
GigaOm: Is AWS Stealing VMware Users, Improving Their Lives or Both?
Last week, I linked to an Amazon Web Services blog post announcing its new VM Import feature, which lets users upload and convert VMware images into Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). I asked at the time why VMware users would choose AWS for this capability instead of a VMware vCloud partner such as BlueLock or Terremark,…
IT World: An Enterprise App Store for your Cloud Needs in 2011?
What if you could shop for your cloud services from an app store that’s created to meet the IT needs of your enterprise? One chief technology officer predicts that will happen in 2011 and will follow the consumer electronics style of Apple’s iTunes.
Marketwire: TZ Centurion Installed in BlueLock's SAS-70 Type II Certified Data Center.
TZ Limited's wholly owned subsidiary, Telezygology, Inc. (TZI) and its Infrastructure Protection operating business unit announce the completion of the first North American installation of the TZ Centurion micro-protection platform complete with TZ Centurion Server control software for BlueLock, an experienced provider of cloud hosting and managed IT services. The TZ Centurion platform was installed…
Technology 500: Tech Industry is on an Upward Swing.
If the economy is any indicator of what’s to come in the next few years, things aren’t looking too good for most startups. Yet, against the odds, 500 tech startups have seen positive growth over the last few years, and are projected to continue growing, according to Lead411's Technology 500 list.
IBJ: Brian Modiano named 2010 CFO of the Year Finalist.
Brian Modiano, CFO for the cloud computing company BlueLock, is coming off a hectic year. The young startup he helps oversee, which only employs about two dozen, took on a major new client, undertook construction of a new data center, and continued to expand and innovate in a rapidly changing marketplace.
IndyStar: On the Move - Brett Sharp
Bluelock recently hired Brett Sharp as their new Controller. Sharp previously was the financial reporting manager with Harlan Laboratories. Prior to that, he was a senior associate at KMPG.
Lead411: BlueLock ranked #37 on Technology 500 list for 2010.
Lead411 recently released their Technology 500 list for 2010 and BlueLock has been ranked #37! The rankings are derived by calculating the highest percentage revenue growth from the year 2007 to the year 2009.
IBJ: Brett Sharp named controller at Bluelock.
Brett Sharp has been named controller at BlueLock.
SQL Server Magazine: Will the Cloud Kill Virtualization?
When virtualization technology first came on the market, there was a lot of confusion as to what it was and whether it could really be used for production workloads. In the beginning, it was tough going. Hosted virtualization products, such as Microsoft Virtual Server, didn’t provide the best performance. However, over time virtualization technology matured…
MSPmentor 100: BlueLock Makes the Managed Services Cloud Leap
As we continue work on our fourth-annual MSPmentor 100 survey, it’s an ideal time to look back at companies from our third-annual MSPmentor 100 list. Among the companies we’ve been watching: BlueLock, which has leveraged virtualization and managed services to gain some cloud momentum. Here’s how BlueLock’s cloud hosting offerings fit into the IT channel, according…
CA Technologies Selects Bluelock’s VMware vCloud Datacenter Service
Bluelock’s VMware vCloud API and cloud resources enable cloud bursting capabilities with CA Technologies process and workload automation solutions. Bluelock, an experienced provider of cloud hosting and managed IT services, announces that CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) has selected Bluelock’s VMware vCloud™ Datacenter Service to integrate CA Process Automation (formerly CA IT Process Automation Manager) and…
Bluelock makes HostReview's list of top ten cloud providers.
Bluelock makes HostReview's list of top ten cloud providers for the month of November.
Bluelock Appoints Technology Executive Christopher Clapp as CEO, Founder John Qualls Named Senior Vice President, Business Development
Leadership Moves Support Cloud Hosting Company’s Growth Plans. Bluelock, an experienced provider of cloud hosting and managed IT services, announces the appointment of Christopher Clapp as chief executive officer to lead the company through its next phase of growth. John Qualls, co-founder and CEO since the company’s inception in 2006, will assume the role of…
Summit to Examine Cloud Computing, Social Media.
Indiana's statewide technology initiative has released more details about its upcoming Innovation Summit at the Indiana Convention Center. TechPoint says two panel discussions will focus on utilizing social media to communicate with customers and how to best take advantage of cloud computing to lower costs.
Three Service Providers at VMworld: BlueLock, Savvis and Hosting.com
VMworld is one of those conferences that you really feel like a rookie the first time you go. It is such a huge event. The conference is vast. It can be more complicated to understand virtualization then figure out where to go at Moscone. We spent a good part of our time talking with people…
Virtual Private Clouds on Public Infrastructure (ITBusinessEdge)
There’s no doubt that interest in private cloud computing is growing rapidly. But just because a cloud is private doesn’t mean it will be running on-premise. In fact, chances are that most private cloud computing implementations will run on public cloud infrastructure. One of the cloud computing providers trying to get an early jump on…
Bluelock Selected as a Top Cloud Hosting Provider by HostReview (September)
Best Cloud Computing Providers Awards show those companies that offer outstanding performance and value for cloud computing servers. Deploy and scale effortlessly in the abstracted global computing cloud. Included in the reviewing process are the price, technology, reliability and overall performance of the hosting company.
Weekly Poll: What Was Hot at VMworld?
Our Pick: Hybrid Clouds The hybrid cloud has arrived. Is it a more sane alternative to the private cloud? We think so. It looks like a smart move for VMware. It extends its partnerships with cloud services providers like Verizon, BlueLock and Savvis. Plus, it gives customers the benefits of extending to a public cloud…
The Register - Risky Cloud Business
Admitting the imbalance is a good start. One of our first meetings at VMworld was with BlueLock, who have the distinction of being one of a small handful of cloud service providers participating in VMware’s big vCloud Datacenter initiative. We spent a bit of time grilling Pat O’Day, Bluelock CTO, in their booth and learned…
VMware And BlueLock To Offer Cloud Management Tool
Data centre service provider BlueLock has announced the availability of the CloudConnector management tool for VMware customers. The tool allows customers to manage their workload between a private and public cloud. The announcement, which was made during the VMworld conference, is a part of VMware's move to provide external data centre services via five partner…
InformationWeek: VMware, Bluelock To Offer Beta Hybrid Cloud Operation.
BlueLock's CloudConnector overlays the VMware client and makes uses the new vCloud Director to coordinate workloads between an on-premises private cloud and BlueLock's public cloud.
VMware keeps on rolling – now hybrid clouds!
Some big names are signed up along side VMware nowadays – EMC, Cisco, Intel and HP to name but a few. Today’s news drop caught my attention in particular though and not because it ties in some more partners (Verizon Business, Terremark and Bluelock) but because of what one of those partners, Bluelock, is bringing…
IT Budgets pointing to the cloud, expansion.
IT shops are in search of variable infrastructure pricing, which will take them to the cloud.
Pathagility Enhances Software-as-a-Service Platform with BlueLock Cloud
7.15.10 - Pathagility's SaaS Solution Gets Needed Security and Scalability from BlueLock Virtual Cloud Enterprise.
Aiming higher (SmartBusiness)
John Qualls is used to setting his own high standards. He did it when he was growing up in a broken home, not living in the same place from week to week during his formative high school years. Qualls knew he could do better for himself and worked hard to get straight A’s by his…
BlueLock Selects Wright Line for Data Center Heat Containment
Worcester, MA (PRWEB) June 28, 2010 -- Wright Line today announced that it has integrated its patented Heat Containment System (HCS) into BlueLock’s world-class, SAS 70 certified data center. BlueLock is an experienced provider of cloud hosting and managed IT services headquartered in Indianapolis.
Deploying a Secure Ecommerce Application in the Cloud
As cloud computing continues to move from "early adopters" to the "early majority," many online retailers are starting to evaluate the cloud as a valuable alternative. Lower upfront and running capital expenses, lower operation expenses, faster time to market, increased scalability and flexibility, as well as pay "by the drink" pricing, are just some of…
Bluelock Wins TechPoint Mira Award for Excellence and Innovation, Contribution to Indiana’s Tech Economy
(Indianapolis, Indiana – May 18, 2010) – BlueLock, an experienced provider of cloud hosting and managed IT services, announces that TechPoint, Indiana’s economic development initiative focused on technology and entrepreneurship, selected BlueLock in the Information Technology Gazelle Company category at the annual Mira Awards Gala. Now in its 11th year, the TechPoint Mira Awards highlight…
Impact of Virtualization on Cloud Computing Standardization (Part 3 of 3)
You could argue that EDS and IBM have been offering “cloud” computing for many years. They have outsourced the data operations of some of the world’s largest companies. They have purchased and built very large data centers, often with many customers in the same facility. They often own and manage the hardware and systems software.…
Movement of Co-location Facilities to The IaaS Cloud Services Business (Part 2 of 3)
As server technology becomes more and more important to the health of a company, we are seeing a shift to moving a company’s servers to outside buildings designed specifically to house servers. These are known as co-location facilities. These facilities have security, power, cooling and Internet access to keep them safe, secure, and running at…
Cloud Computing: A Decade of Natural Evolution (Part 1 of 3)
In 1999, the Internet hype was nearing its peak and I was running a successful software company serving the banking industry. We had plenty of happy customers and we were making money. But, I felt like the press and market analysts were ignoring us because our software ran on Windows using a client-server model. We…
Bluelock Named TechPoint Mira Awards Finalist
4.12.2010 - Five independent panels of judges have chosen 60 finalists to compete for the state’s top technology honors — the TechPoint Mira Awards presented by BKD.
Enterprise Cloud put to the test (featuring Bluelock)
The potential benefits of public clouds are obvious to most IT execs, but so are the pitfalls – outages, security concerns, compliance issues, and questions about performance, management, service-level agreements and billing.
Bluelock Looks to Challenge Amazon with Custom Cloud Computing Infrastructure
BlueLock may not be as well known as its competitors like Amazon and Rackspace for infrastructure as a service (IaaS), but the Indianapolis-based company thinks that if current trends hold, that may not be for long.
Cloud start-up Bluelock thrives during downturn
(ComputerWorld) Demand for cloud services keeps growing; Obama jobs bill may further boost growth.
Bluelock To Expand, Add More Than 100 Jobs
INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indianapolis-based technology company announced Wednesday that it plans to expand its headquarters and create 118 new jobs by 2014.
Bluelock Announces Growth Initiative
Technology Firm to Expand Its Indianapolis Headquarters - INDIANAPOLIS (March 17, 2010) – BlueLock LLC, a provider of cloud computing and managed information technology services, announced today that it will expand its Indianapolis headquarters operations, creating 118 new jobs by 2014.
Bluelock named to HostReview's March 2010 Best Cloud Computing Providers list
Best Cloud Computing Providers Awards show those companies that offer outstanding performance and value for cloud computing servers. Deploy and scale effortlessly in the abstracted global computing cloud. Included in the reviewing process are the price, technology, reliabilty and overall performance of the hosting company.
Bluelock eyes 118 jobs in Indianapolis
Three Indianapolis companies have proposed expansions that would create over 183 jobs combined. The most significant project in terms of employee is from BlueLock, a tech startup that specializes in "cloud computing," a growing form of computer outsourcing.
Seize the Cloud! (Webinar)
Proven, Near-Term Tactics from Successful Service Providers. Sign up for the Webinar on March 9th, 2010.
BlueLock Named to the MSPmentor 100
BlueLock, an experienced provider of cloud computing and managed IT services, has been named to Nine Lives Media Inc.’s third-annual MSPmentor 100, a distinguished research report identifying the world’s most progressive managed service providers.
Tech startup seeing profits in the clouds
Indianapolis-based tech startup Bluelock would be thrilled with a forecast full of clouds. The computing kind of clouds, that is.
BlueLock Chairman Mark Hill talks emerging web, tech trends
View the video on IndyStar.com's Bizz Buzz.
BlueLock Wins Americas VMware Service Provider Program Partner of the Year Award at VMware Partner Exchange 2010
VMware partners from around the world take home top honors for delivering VMware Virtualization solutions to companies of all sizes.
Bluelock Introduces a Comprehensive Set of Cloud Computing Solutions with Bluelock CloudSuite
VMware-based BlueLock CloudSuite offers a tailored selection of public and private cloud options recognizing that different clients have different needs (download full press release - PDF)
Bluelock Highlighted as High Quality Cloud Security Example
From divvying up responsibility to using third-party tools, here's how some companies are approaching the problem.
Hosted Service Provider Bluelock on Growth Binge
At least in some sectors, business is not stagnating and employees aren’t being marched en masse to the exit.