BlueLock Announces "Cloud Monkeys" Use Case Contest

Online, June 16, 2010 (Newswire.com) - BlueLock, an experienced provider of cloud hosting and managed IT services, announces their "Cloud Monkeys" Use Case contest. Open for submissions from June 16 - July 7, the contest looks to surface the most innovative use cases of BlueLock's vCloud Express.

During the 12-week contest, developers enter by filling out a simple questionnaire on the BlueLock Web site that includes a description of the BlueLock vCloud Express use case and why it deserves to win. Participants can promote their own use case through Twitter and other social media outlets. Submissions will be voted on by an open community of voters and judged by BlueLock and VMware on cloud applicability, creativity/innovation, time savings and cost savings to select the top five use cases. The first ten submissions will receive a BlueLock "Cloud Monkey" stuffed animal and the five finalists will receive FlipCams with the option to document their use cases in a two minute "Recognition Video." Finalists who submit Recognition Videos will then be judged by BlueLock and VMware for the Grand Prize, with the winner receiving an engraved Apple iPad.

"The functionality of BlueLock vCloud Express has proven to be unique and of value to our clients, driving us to design some of the same features into our other solutions within BlueLock CloudSuite," said Kim Graham Lee, Chief Marketing Officer, BlueLock. "We are excited to not only learn more about how developers have been using vCloud Express, but to also highlight the most unique and interesting use cases."

"As a valued VMware vCloud™ service provider partner, BlueLock has been able to help shape vCloud Express as it continues to demonstrate that they are ahead of the curve in understanding their clients' needs in the evolving cloud computing space," said Mathew Lodge, Senior Director, Cloud Product Marketing, VMware. "We are looking forward to learning about how beta users have taken advantage of the dynamic combination of the industry-leading VMware platform and BlueLock's secure and reliable cloud hosting and infrastructure expertise."

BlueLock vCloud Express is a reliable, on-demand, pay-as-you-go infrastructure solution that enables compatibility with internal VMware environments and with VMware Virtualized™ services worldwide. The technology allows users to create virtual machines as needed and add compute capacity via an online interface. Users pay only for the compute and storage space they use. Since being selected by VMware to offer vCloud Express and launching in September 2009, BlueLock has reached 1,100 beta users of the product.

Participants can be past, current or new BlueLock vCloud Express beta users and can submit more than one application. For additional contest details, visit www.bluelock.com.

About BlueLock
BlueLock is an experienced provider of cloud computing and managed IT services, offering the people, expertise and IT infrastructure in a world-class, SAS 70 certified datacenter. BlueLock CloudSuite, a comprehensive set of cloud computing solutions, offers a tailored selection of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) environments to best configure users' computing resources. With CloudSuite's array of public and virtual private cloud computing solutions, clients have the ability to utilize cloud resources based on their specific needs to optimize deployment, management, and investment. Recently named the 2009 Service Provider of the Year for the Americas by VMware, the global leader in virtualization technology solutions, BlueLock offers solutions for the developer to the Fortune 500 executive. BlueLock, a Collina Ventures company, is privately-held and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. For more information, visit www.bluelock.com.

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