INDIANPOLIS –Indianapolis-based BlueLock, provider of Cloud Computing and Managed IT services, announced a key partnership with rPath, experts in application packaging, deployment and management.

This partnership helps reduces the cost and complexity of moving applications into the BlueLock cloud.  rPath’s rBuilder® automates the creation of application images that can run in any traditional, virtualized or cloud-based environment.  In addition, the rPath Lifecycle Management Platform ensures complete management and control of application images in production.

rPath clients, typically companies with significant investments in infrastructure, use the rBuilder and rPath Lifecycle Management Platform to create, deploy and manage applications in their own traditional data centers, virtual and cloud environments.   As a result of the partnership rPath users will be able to provision their applications in the BlueLock cloud.

The collaboration between BlueLock and rPath allows users to create hybrid environments that span virtually any combination of public and private clouds, or control their applications hosted completely in the BlueLock cloud.   

“rPath provides an extraordinarily powerful and flexible capability for allowing users to make smart decisions about how and when to tap into the cloud," said Pat O’Day, BlueLock Chief Technology Officer. “Incorporating this into our cloud will allow us to offer the additional functionality and flexibility to our customers.”

“BlueLock has an extremely innovative approach to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), using the VMware platform,” said Jake Sorofman, VP of marketing for rPath.   “We’re looking forward to continued close collaboration as we work together to bring a controlled and policy-driven approach to application deployment and management in the cloud.”
 
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.

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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. For more information go to www.bluelock.com.