Indianapolis-based BlueLock, provider of Cloud Computing and Managed IT services, announced their CTO Pat O’Day has been invited to co-present at the IBM Pulse 2009 Premiere Service Management Event. The five-day conference is scheduled for February 8 – 12 at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, NV.
At this year’s event, IBM will showcase how they are managing the world’s infrastructure, integrating business, IT and their industry solutions capabilities to thousands of professionals. The conference promises to deliver a full spectrum of high-quality business, industry, user and technical content at every level through more than 200 IBM client presentations.
“Security is one of the hottest topics in the ongoing discussion of cloud computing,” said Pat O’Day. “It is one of the most critical elements every enterprise must address in order to make the transition to a cloud environment.”
John Pirc, Senior Product Line Manager for IBM will share the session with O’Day, a recognized expert in cloud computing. Together, they will offer their perspectives on security trends, new developments and applications.
“As we continue to evaluate new platform strategies, it is clear IBM-ISS understands the challenges, and is continuing to evolve their product line to meet the needs of the virtual cloud computing space,” said O’Day. “I am pleased to share my expertise side by side with John at this event.”
For more information or to register for the event, please visit http://www-01.ibm.com/software.tivoli/pulse.
About Pat O’Day:
Pat O’Day is responsible for engineering, commercializing and making BlueLock’s “Infrastructure-as-as-Service” model a business reality. With more than 20 years of experience as an information technology professional, he defines BlueLock’s services, architects its unique hosted IT environments, spearheads its strategic vendor alliances and oversees service deployment and delivery.
With a combination of real-world implementation experience and a thorough understanding of the underlying business drivers, O’Day is recognized as an industry expert. He is routinely invited to speak at industry events and on panels to help educate others in the field.
Pat also shares his expertise as a member of the Shavlik Technologies customer advisory board and as a member of the NPower board, a nonprofit organization that offers technology assistance to other nonprofits nationally. He is also the co-founder and former president of the local Association of Internet Professionals.
About BlueLock:
BlueLock serves its clients by providing the people, expertise and IT infrastructure in a world-class, SAS 70 certified data center. The company provides Virtual Cloud Computing through Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) where clients subscribe monthly to just the right amount of computing, storage and bandwidth capacity needed today with the ability to grow “on demand” in the future. Their unique IT environments are ideal for Web-facing software applications (also known as Web 2.0 or SaaS) and IT environments that require high availability and the ability to expand and contract dynamically for production or disaster recovery. BlueLock, a Collina Ventures company, is privately-held and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.
CONTACT:
Lorraine Ball
317.569.1398
lorraine@roundpeg.biz
Leave a comment