Over the years, RightScale has put on a number of informative and fun conferences. Starting from Santa Clara and then traveling east to New York, we’ve had more than 1,600 RightScale customers and partners meet up with us in conjunction with the Cloud Computing Expo.
2011 RightScale Conference Santa Clara — Recap
More than 500 RightScale customers and partners met for the RightScale Conference in conjunction with the Cloud Expo in Santa Clara. The daylong event included a live demo of the RightScale IT self-service interface as well as customer and analyst presentations followed by breakout sessions led by our own RightScale cloud experts and several of our partners. We continued the networking over cocktails that evening at the renowned Parcel 104. Check out photos taken throughout the day!
View videos and slide decks of all the presentations and breakout sessions.
2011 RightScale User Conference New York — Recap
More than 400 RightScale customers and partners met for the RightScale User Conference in conjunction with the Cloud Computing Expo in New York City. The daylong event included a product demo of the latest RightScale MultiCloud features as well as customer and analyst presentations plus breakout sessions led by our own RightScale cloud experts and several of our partners. We continued the networking over cocktails on the rooftop of the Hotel Gansevoort with scenic sunset views of the Hudson River. Check out photos taken throughout the day!
View videos and slide decks of all the presentations and breakout sessions.
2010 RightScale User Conference Santa Clara
“In #RightScale’s User Conf. Glad to be hearing from actual users, not just vendors today.Great agenda, guys.”
–James Staten
@Staten7
“#RightScale—great people, great company, look forward to working with them more!”
–Kirk Punches
@KirkPunches
“Drinking a nice viognier brought from Santa Barbara county at Parcel 104 with the #RightScale folks. They know how to throw a party.”
–Ryan Geyer
@rjgeyer
ServerTemplate Showdown Winners
Congratulations to RightScale customers Brian Haun, representing the Datapipe team, and Ryan Geyer of Mentor Solutions for creating the most innovative and most useful ServerTemplates, respectively, in our recent contest. We awarded iPads to Brian and Ryan at the User Conference for their contributions to community-supported ServerTemplates, and we’re looking forward to seeing more from them.
2010 RightScale User Meetup NYC - Recap
On April 21, 2010, over 200 RightScale users gathered in New York City alongside Cloud Computing Expo 2010 for a great day full of learning and sharing, meeting the RightScale management team, and networking with customers and partners at the second RightScale User Meetup.
Download the presentation from the 2010 NYC RightScale User Meetup in PDF format.
“At the Rightscale User Group meeting. Great digs, great sessions... #cloudexpo #rightscale”
“If you are at #cloudexpo and and not at the #rightscale user group meeting you are missing all
the good stuff...”
“#rightscale runs a righteous user group meeting and after party ... First class all the way. #cloudexpo”
–John Willis, VP Training & Services, Opscode
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No Hype! Real Customers, Real Deployments & Real Benefits
The day’s agenda included:
- Cloud trends and customer evolution
- Michael Crandell, CEO
- Josh Fraser, VP Business Development
- Customer presentations and Q&A panel
- Allurent – Michael Keirnan, Software Architect
- PBS – Drew Engelson, Chief Architect
- Quest Diagnostics – Henry Kubik, Sr. Technical Engineer, Enterprise Architecture
- Tunecore – David Willen, CTO and David Glaser, Sr. Engineer, Systems and Performance Management
- Technology directions and product roadmap
- Thorsten von Eicken, CTO
- Darryl Eaton, Senior Product Manager
- Raphael Simon, Senior Software Engineer
- Customer support options
- Chris Fowler, VP Services
You can download the full presentation from the RightScale User Meetup in PDF format here.
2009 RightScale User Meetup - Recap
On November 2, 2009 over 200 RightScale users gathered to connect with each other, hear stories from RightScale customers, meet the RightScale team and learn more about cloud computing at the first-ever RightScale User Meetup.
“In an industry melting down under the weight of vendor hype, RightScale Inc. let its customers do the talking on the benefits and challenges of cloud computing at a user group meeting this week.”
–Jo Maitland, Executive Editor, SearchCloudComputing.com
RightScale users sound off on cloud pros and cons
“RightScale's mantra "Real customers, Real deployments, Real benefits" was truly evident in their first ever user meetup. Other than discussing the trends, product road map and services offered by RightScale, the most interesting part was the customer testimonials.”
–Arun Gupta, GlassFish Evangelist, Sun Microsystems
RightScale User Meetup Trip Report
No Hype! Real Customers, Real Deployments & Real Benefits
CEO Michael Crandell, CTO Thorsten von Eicken and VP Services Chris Fowler shared insights on trends in cloud computing, the RightScale product roadmap and service options.
RightScale customers Sony Music Entertainment, Sonoa Systems, Sling Media and FanSnap shared their stories on how they're using the cloud, and how RightScale has helped make their lives easier.
You can download the presentation from the 2009 RightScale User Meetup in PDF format here.
See what they were saying about the RightScale User Meetup
Lots of folks were live tweeting during the RightScale User Meetup. Download a copy of the RightScale User Meetup Twitter stream.
