Bluelock Makes Cloud Disaster Recovery Affordable

Grazed from InformationWeek. Authr: Charles Babcock.

eMeter is a 200-employee unit of Siemens that produces software for electric, natural gas and water utility management systems. Its EnergyIP platform is meant to allow a utility to combine information from smart meters with information on the grid’s operation to better serve customers. With part of its development in India and part in Redwood City, Calif., eMeter turned to Bluelock cloud data centers in Indianapolis and Las Vegas to store the recovery copies of its systems.

Under a Bluelock service launched in early May, virtualized copies of first-tier production systems were created and stored in a Bluelock data center, with a constant data feed from production systems linked to the same data center. In the event of a disaster, the sleeping virtual machines would be woken up and data fed into them reflecting the last known point of data integrity…

That became necessary, recalled Pat O’Day, CTO of Bluelock, when an eMeter customer in India botched its attempt to install a needed energy management system last month. eMeter senior systems administrator Bryan Bond got a call in the middle of the night asking for help in getting it back up. He did so in three hours by activating the backup copy in a Bluelock cloud center and resurrecting its data feed, a task that would have taken four to five business days under the prior recovery system, O’Day recounted…

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