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Bluelock’s exclusive cloud management and forecast tool, Bluelock Portfolio™, is an often quoted favorite of Bluelock users. With this tool users are able to track their current spending and cloud resource use, predict their remaining monthly expenses and better understand patterns about what resources their application consumes.

Bluelock Portfolio also allows users to understand resource usage from the top down. Being able to see total monthly spend and then drill down into the particular...

Registration is now open for Bluelock's upcoming webinar "Deep Dive into Disaster Recovery in the Cloud." Cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service is the latest in disaster recovery technology. Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) is the ideal on-ramp to cloud to solve your need to recover quickly, easily and efficiently after a disaster strikes. This webinar will provide a deep dive into how Recovery-as-a-Service actually works, with two demo scenarios. One lucky attendee will also win an iPad Mini! Register...

The Cloud News Report is a weekly list of our top three favorite cloud computing articles from the past week.

Cloud Computing Saves Energy and Here’s the Data to Show It

Since the beginning, cloud has promised efficiencies. What a recent study from Lawrence Berkeley Lab, funded by Google, showed, however, was that the cloud is actually green, too, saving power and energy compared to legacy solutions. In this GigaOm article, Katie Fehrenbacher details the findings that say moving email, CRM, word...

When Bluelock expanded its datacenter presence to the Switch SUPERNAP facility in Las Vegas, it gained more than a west coast location. Bluelock and its clients gained the benefits of membership in the Switch C.U.B.E inside the Switch CLOUD CITY.

The Switch C.U.B.E. stands for the Cloud Ubiquitous Business Exchange.  It’s an ecosystem of cloud providers who have co-located their infrastructure in the Switch SUPERNAP to provide customers multi-tenancy and the option to use services...

Hybrid cloud strategy can be used to leverage a lot of cloud benefits not available from just public or just private. One of the most unique benefits to a public cloud strategy is the ability to deal with uncertainty.

Combat Uncertainty

Uncertainty is common in the pharmaceutical industry. Years of research and development can go into a single drug that never makes it to market. Despite years of research, no one ever knows which drug will take off and which will get shut down.

In order to manage...

The Cloud News Report is a weekly list of our top three favorite cloud computing articles from the past week.

Can the Cloud Bring Brighter Skies in Japan-Korea Relations?

Though tensions have been high between the South Korean and Japanese governments, this Wall Street Journal article by Joelle Metcalfe argues that cloud could be the answer to positive relations between the two countries.

Recently South Korean telecom KT Corp announced it would launch a cloud in Japan though a joint venture with...

What to Expect When You’re In the Cloud: First year tips, tricks and tutorials is a series of posts appearing weekly that highlights the unique experiences, questions and successes individuals have their first year in the cloud. Posts are based on clients and non-clients alike. To submit your question, or story, tweet @Bluelock.

Last week we covered how to leverage horizontal and vertical scalingwhen it comes to cloud, but this week we’ll tackle a user-asked question that falls right in line with...

Your risk and impact levels from a declared disaster have changed greatly over the years. Both natural and man-made disasters are increasing according to the list of FEMA declared disasters since 1953. Because businesses are becoming more reliant on technology, IT’s ability to recover and rebound after a declaration is just as important, if not more so, as the steps they take to try and prevent disasters in the first place.

The fact is, you can spend all the time and money in your...

The Cloud News Report is a weekly list of our top three favorite cloud computing articles from the past week.

Sears Turning Old Department Stores Into Data Centers

One of the most ingenious ideas when it comes to making lemonade out of lemons, Sears recently announced its unused retail store spaces will begin to be converted into datacenters in order to make use of the large, unused square footage and help the company climb out of recent losses from their core business. In this Fast Company...

What to Expect When You’re In the Cloud: First year tips, tricks and tutorials is a series of posts appearing weekly that will highlights the unique experiences, questions and successes individuals have their first year in the cloud. Posts are based on clients and non-clients alike. To submit your question, or story, tweet @Bluelock.

Continuing our series highlighting first year lessons learned and questions answered, today’s question focuses on vertical and horizontal scaling.

“How can users...