Bluelock is a managed technology services company and one of the first providers of virtual cloud computing offered through an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) model. With Bluelock’s IaaS model, clients pay a monthly fee for the IT infrastructure they use, plus a retainer for reserve capacity.br br Pat O'Day, Bluelock CTO, talks about the challenges of their customers and how there was a need for a fast, affordable solution that could be tailored for the specific needs of each customer. They added BIG-IP LTM to their core infrastructure to handle the Virtual datacenter, provision additional virtual servers as needed, offload SSL and provide fast, secure and reliable application delivery.