(VMworld, San Francisco, CA – 9/1/2009)– Indianapolis-based BlueLock, provider of cloud computing and managed IT services will begin offering BlueLock vCloud Express beginning today September 1, 2009 as part of the launch of the VMware vCloud™ Express class of cloud computing services.
VMware vCloud™ Express is a Compute as a Service solution that will be powered by VMware vCloud Service Providers such as BlueLock. vCloud Express is designed to support transient workloads by providing a high level of elasticity for faster turnaround time and future workload federation. BlueLock has primarily provided its cloud hosting services to enterprise clients. The addition of vCloud Express will enable BlueLock to serve application developers and startups as well as the enterprises that have relied on their services in the past.
“BlueLock has been investigating ways to incorporate a Compute-as-a-Service offering into our product mix so the VMware vCloud™ Express couldn’t have come at a better time,” said Pat O’Day, CTO at BlueLock. “We are excited to be working with VMware to deliver this new service that combines the proven flexibility, efficiency and reliability of the VMware platform with our cloud environment to capture a whole new market.”
“BlueLock has been a long-time provider and innovator leveraging the VMware platform and an important VMware vCloud™ partner delivering compute and business continuity solutions,” said Dan Chu, vice president of emerging business at VMware. “We are confident that BlueLock vCloud Express will be a reliable and cost-effective addition to their cloud offerings.”
BlueLock has been 100% virtualized with VMware technology since its inception in 2006. For more information about BlueLock vCloud Express visit http://vcloudexpress.bluelock.com/.
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.
The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.
Contact:
Alicia Glick
BlueLock
aglick@bluelock.com
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