Gartner Positions Bluelock in the “Visionaries” Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service

Bluelock, a managed cloud hosting and recovery provider delivering infrastructure, software and solutions with the flexibility to handle complex problems, today announces that Gartner, Inc. has positioned Bluelock as a “Visionary” in its 2015 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service report1. The full report is available at no charge from Bluelock’s website at http://go.bluelock.com/2015GartnerMagicQuadrantforDRaaS.html.

The report evaluated 14 different Disaster Recovery as a Service vendors on 15 criteria and placed Bluelock in the “Visionaries” quadrant.

“Bluelock is proud to be a member of this inaugural report and we consider our positioning in the ‘Visionaries’ quadrant to be a strong testament to our ability to deliver on the promise of cloud-based recovery and provide insight through people, processes and tools,” explains Bluelock CEO Christopher Clapp. “Cloud recovery is a competitive market. We believe our ability to understand our customer’s objectives and reliably tailor prepackaged solutions and services for high-risk, high-security workloads makes us stand out.”

The “Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service” primarily evaluates disaster recovery providers in the context of their completeness of vision and their ability to execute. Gartner’s clients are mainly enterprises, midmarket businesses and technology companies of all sizes, and the evaluation focuses on typical client requirements.

Bluelock has nearly a decade of experience interpreting, analyzing and tailoring solutions for companies who can’t afford to make mistakes. Security and compliance are specific areas of focus. By delivering insight through tools, processes and people, Bluelock helps customers achieve their success objectives instead of focusing on the day-to-day details of infrastructure management.

For more information on Bluelock’s managed cloud hosting and recovery solutions, visit:

• Bluelock Managed Cloud Hosting
• Bluelock Recovery-as-a-Service

The Gartner Magic Quadrant is widely recognized as a benchmark for enterprises seeking to evaluate cloud Infrastructure as a Service. It evaluates vendors according to completeness of vision – including product strategy, business model, innovation, and market understanding – as well as marketing strategy, sales strategy and geographic strategy, vertical/industry strategy and ability to execute-product or service, overall viability, sales execution/pricing, market responsiveness/record, marketing execution, customer experience and operations.

About Bluelock

Bluelock is a managed cloud hosting provider that provides solutions to empower information technology leaders in charge of high-potential, high-risk workloads by enabling them to focus on impactful, strategic initiatives and manage rapidly evolving infrastructure requirements without having to deal with the complex day-to-day details of datacenter infrastructure management. Bluelock excels at delivering insight to IT and business leaders through its tools, processes and people to help clients make better business decisions. Bluelock is a US-based company with Tier 3 and Tier 4 datacenter facilities in geographically separated, redundant locations and is SSAE Type II SOC 2 certified. For more information visit www.bluelock.com.

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1“Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service” by John Morency, Christine Tenneson, 21 April 2015.”