Customer Success Stories

From Innovative Startups to Agile Enterprises

RightScale customers manage their cloud infrastructure more efficiently. By choosing our automation and configuration solutions, they can minimize repetitive tasks and instead focus on developing scalable and highly available applications – resulting in faster speed to market and increased customer satisfaction. And by choosing our multi-cloud cloud solution, they can leverage public clouds from a variety of vendors and private clouds in their own datacenters. Our experience and best practices provide a path to cloud success.

In short, our customers choose us because RightScale makes cloud manageable. 

Over 65,000 users
in more than 100 countries.

Their Success Stories Inspire Us

“We are fairly typical of large enterprises with some development groups that are forward thinking and that have been adopting cloud computing to take advantage of the on-demand and pay-as-you-go model of cloud computing. We use RightScale to reduce our overhead and the time we have to spend on cloud infrastructure.”

Jeff Gelb, Director of Technology Strategy
Pearson Education

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“RightScale is the one tool that I can use to help train other engineers on how to launch servers, how to restart them if they crash, and how to solve performance issues. Now they are the ones on call instead of me, and I can sleep a lot better at night.”

Erik Osterman
Director of Operations, CBS Interactive

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“RightScale has terrific monitoring capabilities. You can extend those capabilities yourself and it's actually really easy to do.”

David Lowe
Sr. Technical Director, EAi

“I had used RightScale previously at Netflix, and one of the biggest wins for us was being able to auto-scale without having to be there — it was completely automatic.”

Matt Wise, Senior Systems Architect
Nextdoor

“RightScale helped us scale from 40 servers to 4,000 servers in only 3 days! Without EC2 and RightScale, it would have been impossible to meet our processing requirements.”

Stevie Clifton, CTO, Animoto

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“RightScale allowed us to bring simplicity back to the data center. Everything is consistent, version controlled, and very predictable. With RightScale, our availability is pretty much 100 percent, which allows us to have more confidence in our environment and get our products out quicker.”

Tim Jones, CTO
Trader Media Group

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“When you’re hosting everything in the cloud and you’re using a provider where you have no insight into what’s going on besides their API, RightScale becomes that human insight into what’s going on with your product with your customers. And we have this added benefit of being able to call smart people in support at RightScale — they are the model of how you help customers.”

Brian Alvey, CEO, Ceros

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“RightScale has let us set up a complex cloud environment and easily manage it. If we were doing just vanilla EC2 images, we wouldn’t be where we are today.”

David Tucker, Director of Product Development
WebFilings

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“RightScale has provided Coupa a standardized and manageable way to leverage the Amazon cloud and rapidly scale while keeping our costs significantly lower than anyone in our space. RightScale has empowered Coupa to provide a quicker ROI to our customers.”

Sanket Naik, Senior Director of Operations
Coupa Software

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“With RightScale we were able to launch our application into the public cloud. This would have been impossible in our current data center.”

James J. Ahn, Technical Architect
American Girl

“We’ve been able to manage our infrastructure very effectively with RightScale.”

Nick Namikas, CTO
CitizenGlobal

“It would have been nearly impossible to do what we've done without RightScale. It would take a large team of system administrators to manage this number of servers with this level of control without RightScale.”

Jayme Cox, Chief Architect, Cloud Computing, Zynga

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“It just works!”

Reto Lichtensteiger, Senior Manager of Operations, RR Donnelley

"I'd highly recommend RightScale for companies of any size that would rather focus on their business rather than building operational management tools."

Chris Armstrong, Director of Engineering, The Resumator

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“With on-air TV ads, having to deal with massive traffic spikes used to be a nightmare. But RightScale cloud server management and auto-scaling techniques made my life much easier. Not to mention our small engineering team in our department could easily manage our servers and ensure solid dev/qa/production environments. And the biggest bonus: how cool the people at RightScale are! I’d buy ‘em each a beer if I could!”

Ted Serbinski, Director of Technology, A&E

“RightScale was only one part of our 80 percent cost savings in moving Friendster to the cloud. But it took a large task off our plate – automating and managing our cloud infrastructure – and let us move on to other problems. RightScale has been an enormous part of our operational peace of mind ever since.”

Aaron Chipper, CTO, MOL Global

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“With less than a day's work total and using RightScale cloud management, we were able to configure aiCache for use during Woot-Offs. Our site stays up under the crush, and we've saved quite a bit on hardware purchases and time spent optimizing.”

Luke Duff, Retail Manager, Woot

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“Because RightScale makes it easy to move an application from one cloud to another, our customers’ concerns about getting locked into one specific cloud have been alleviated.”

Chet Kapoor, CEO, Apigee

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“Using RightScale and Zend, it’s easy to hone the deployment environment, create duplicates for dev and test, make modifications, configure new servers, and prototype quickly.”

Mark Moline, Technology Director, MediaSpike

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“If you have a good idea, don’t be afraid to make the move because you don’t need to worry about compute infrastructure with RightScale and the cloud.”

Dave Blinder, CTO, FamilyBuilder

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“By automating our cloud computing deployments with RightScale, we accomplished our goal to significantly reduce overall administrative and management requirements of our biomedical research cloud computing resource – and increased the time we devote to translational science projects.”

Dr. Peter Tonellato, Director of the Laboratory for Personalized Medicine (LPM) in the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI) at Harvard Medical School

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“We keep our website running fast. Over the years, we’ve learned a thing or two about handling large spikes in server traffic. Thanks to cloud computing, RightScale, and Amazon EC2, today we’re able to dynamically scale our capacity to meet demand.”

Kyle Wiens, Founder, iFixit

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“No huge investments in hardware, staff and other resources are required to get a scalable, end-to-end enterprise BI solution delivering results on the first day of business.”

Peter Relan, Co-founder, CrowdStar

“RightScale has allowed us to manage and scale our systems seamlessly. As a result, we're able to allocate more resources to what matters for our business: our application.”

Brad Satoris, eNotes

“We provision all new cloud servers through RightScale’s dashboard. It’s very simple — and very effective.”

Chris Henry, CTO, Behance

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“Choosing RightScale to manage our cloud servers was as easy of a choice as selecting Amazon EC2 for our cloud infrastructure; there is no competitor remotely close to providing the same features and quality of service. Using RightScale was the only way we could have implemented our rigorous template-based, fully-backed-up-and-monitored infrastructure on Amazon without having to hire several additional employees.”

Joe Masters Emison
VP Research and Development
BuildFax

“For Magus, the move to the Amazon cloud required nothing short of a wholesale change in our company operations. Our approach to ongoing system monitoring and support needed to be completely reinvented in order to make a success of our cloud operation, and to ensure the utmost reliability of our SaaS application. In all these tasks, we found the RightScale solution and client support to be invaluable in simplifying the process and building confidence in our new virtual cloud infrastructure.

To have a partner with expertise in managing cloud operations not only significantly speeded up the migration process, but also gave us the confidence that we could make the step change with minimal risk. RightScale is now firmly embedded in our all of our development, testing, verification, deployment and ongoing management processes.”

David Wiblin, Head of Operations
Magus

“We were fearful of migrating our privately managed infrastructure to the cloud because it seemed like a large ordeal. However, RightScale ServerTemplates™ allowed us to fire up temporary servers to demo, mitigating our concerns. During the migration, our RightScale rep, Jarryd, was extremely helpful and provided a high-quality level of responsiveness. We appreciate the simplicity of adding new servers, architecting a scalable and redundant hosting environment, and monitoring server performance real-time.”

Nitin Mittal, Managing Partner
www.brandingbrand.com

“RightScale has had a tremendous impact on reducing the time ShareThis spends building and managing our environments. We're using RightScale for implementing and managing our automated server builds, configuration management, and monitoring for development, QA, performance, and production environments. I would recommend it highly for others looking to get up and running on the cloud.”

Nanda Kishore, CTO
ShareThis

“What I like best about RightScale is the ease of use and ability to make quick changes with large effect. I also love the graphs!”

Sami Lababidi, CTO
PlayFish