VoIP In Detail covers everything related to VOIP, software, hardware, service providers, reviews, configurations, standards, tips & tricks and everything else related to voice over IP networks, IP telephony and Internet Telephony. What BlueLock does is complicated: It provides what is known as “virtual cloud computing.” So when Vice President Brian Wolff explains the concept, he simplifies it — by using Legos.
He puts down one block to represent a computer server.
“In the old world,” he says, “you’d put a physical server in place and then you would load a database on that server. But if that server broke, you’re offline.”
So he puts another Lego on top of the “server.” This one represents VMware — software BlueLock buys that allows more efficient use of that physical server.
Next to the first “server,” he puts another block–an additional server. If that first server goes down, the VMware transfers the data to a separate piece of hardware, and it’s back online in 15 minutes.
Basically, he explains, BlueLock provides IT infrastructure — or servers — for companies to load their software applications onto. Companies pay a monthly fee — from as low as $900 to as much as $15,000 a month — for that computer power, storage and bandwidth.
“But you don’t buy any of the underlying hardware,” which can cost at least $300,000, Wolff said. You just load your software in there. We monitor it, we maintain it, and you just pay monthly for the amount of capacity you need.”
This allows businesses to concentrate on their core operations without having the expense of hardware and personnel to maintain it. Since about half of BlueLock’s clients are software companies, that means they can focus on writing better code and responding to code changes or upgrade requests from their clients.
“You do what you’re best at,” Wolff said. “I’ll do what I’m best at and [you] pay me as you need to grow.”
Providing VMware isn’t that novel.
“The technology is just about mainstream,” said Chad Miller, a systems engineer in information…
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