INDIANAPOLIS – Pat O’Day CTO of BlueLock, Indianapolis-based provider of Cloud Computing and Managed IT services, will present in a webinar hosted by rPath, experts in application distribution and management on Wednesday, Feb. 25.
The webinar, sponsored by rPath, will focus on the key use cases for hybrid compute environments and how companies can take advantage of cloud computing without sacrificing control to vendor lock in. Experts from rPath, VMware and BlueLock will provide a framework for understanding the tradeoffs between cloud options and will conduct a live demonstration of a real application moving seamlessly between BlueLock, Amazon EC2 and a VMware ESX server.
What: “Blending Clouds: Avoiding Lock-In and Realizing the Promise of Hybrid Compute Environments — Today,” a webinar and live multi-cloud demonstration
Who: Experts from BlueLock, VMware and rPath
When: Wednesday, Feb. 25 at 2pm EST (11am PST)
How: Register for this free event at http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=134604&s=1&k=4A8CE27A0C23FE3787BD9395E1AD83A4&partnerref=web.
Attendees will learn:
-The tradeoffs between internal and external datacenter and cloud options
-How to build and deploy applications for portability and how to combat lock-in
-How to blend the need for speed with the mandate for control
-Innovative uses of hybrid compute environments, including dev/test, “cloud bursting,” and “capacity arbitrage” for commodity compute cycles
After the presentation, the panelists will participate in a question/answer session. Registration for this event is free and unlimited so all who are interested may attend.
About BlueLock:
BlueLock serves its clients by providing the people, expertise and infrastructure in a world-class, SAS 70 certified data center. Through long-term relationships, the company offers expertise, virtual cloud computing, disaster recovery and virtualization solutions. BlueLock delivers infrastructure solutions at an ever decreasing price points. The company was recently featured in an article in Information Security magazine. BlueLock, a Collina Ventures company, is privately-held and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. For more information about the company, please visit www.bluelock.com or contact 1-888-402-2583.
About rPath:
rPath is widely recognized as a pioneer in solutions for reducing the cost and complexity of delivering enterprise applications to traditional, virtualized and cloud-based environments. Leading ISVs and enterprises rely on rBuilder and the rPath Lifecycle Management Platform for rapid deployment and low-overhead management and maintenance of complex application workloads. This dramatically improves business agility and allows resource-constrained IT organizations to “do more with less” by reducing the cost and complexity of application delivery. By producing application images and virtual appliances that can run most anywhere, rPath frees the application from the underlying hardware, simplifying deployment, portability and promoting scalability in response to dynamic demand. rPath is headquartered in Raleigh, NC. Visit www.rpath.com.
rPath is a registered trademark of rPath. All other brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
About VMware:
VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2008 revenues of $1.9 billion, more than 130,000 customers and more than 22,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest growing public software companies. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is majority-owned by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC). For more information, visit www.vmware.com.
VMware is a registered trademark or trademark of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.
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