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 45,000 users
in more than 100 countries.
Their Success Stories Inspire Us
“RightScale is so powerful and efficient that we’re seeing huge savings in the amount of time it takes our developers to get their hands on a pre-configured server and test software before a pilot. Because it’s a self-service model, nobody has to wait anymore: You define what you want, you click, and RightScale launches what is needed.”
Andy West, Director of Technology
Pearson Education
“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
“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
“RightScale helped us get up and running quickly with EC2 and manage a complex environment.”
Todd Martin, CTO
Associated Press
“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, CrowdFusion
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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, Manager, Cloud Computing, Zynga
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“With RightScale and AWS, we have no need for full time netops or sysadmins. Our developers are empowered to setup and provision everything themselves.”
Vladimir Giverts, Director of Engineering
Lionside
“We provision any new Cloud Servers through RightScale’s central console. It’s very simple, and very effective.”
Chris Henry, CTO, Behance
“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
“RightScale gives us all the tools to run our service in the cloud and instantly scale up to user demand. We are continuously surprised with how well-designed their platform is and are more than happy with their excellent customer support, too.”
Tuomas Artman, Chief Engineer
Sofanatics.com
“RightScale kicks ass. I don't know what we'd do without them. Automation in the cloud, baby!”
Kord Campbell, CEO and Log Wrangler
Loggly
“With RightScale we spend less time configuring and maintaining on our Amazon EC2 instances and more time improving and refining our software.”
Zeke Ricci, Director of Technology
JackRabbit Systems
“To launch we needed to transform a desktop prototype to a full deployment on Amazon EC2, and do it quickly. RightScale was critical in hitting our goal. Since then, we have relied on RightScale to manage and monitor our service and AWS to secure and back-up our data. We have delivered an excellent service at a fraction of the traditional cost and without any dedicated system administrators.”
Richard Barber, CTO, Carbonflow
“RightScale has been the panacea for our move to the cloud. Its comprehensive infrastructure, backed by airtight support, allows us to focus on building out our core platform and gives us the agility to rapidly take it in new directions. Jarryd and the rest of the RightScale team have been indispensable partners to us.”
Ken Kolodziej, Co-Founder
CaptiveLead
“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
“I wanted to drop you a note to thank you and one of your excellent Professional Service architects Robert Wagner for not only working with us on a very short timeline but offering your assistance in a technically well matched format based on our needs. When working in the Live Game Operations business, being able to provide highly reliable and scalable solutions requires working with diverse technologies and partners who are able to match the technical expertise with well-timed execution. RightScale was able to deliver on both of these for us.”
Piotr Kapiszewski, VP Infrastructure
SleepyGiant
“In response to the increased functionalities and management load of our Holosfind software suite, we needed to quickly upgrade to the Amazon cloud computing model. RightScale enabled us to complete this migration very quickly, smoothly and reliably. Today the RightScale solution allows us to have complete control over our servers and services.”
Sylvain Bellaïche
President HolosFind Group
HolosFind
“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
“Eviesays.com is an event aggregation start-up company and RightScale has been there for us every step of the way. Our clients depend on us for fast and accurate event listings, and RightScale cloud management allows us to stay consistent and agile in our server configurations and deployments. In terms of cost and efficiency, eviesays.com could have done no better than going with RightScale.”
Bruce Dobie, CEO, Eviesays.com
“Moving to the cloud will allow us to save money on infrastructure and bandwidth as we roll out rich media applications and continue to expand our user base. Having LTech as our strategic partner and using RightScale we were able to achieve our launch with the knowledge we can quickly scale our offerings based on need and demand.”
Frank Weichmann, CIO
GettingHired.com
“Once we decided to create a SaaS offering of our interactive merchandising capabilities for online retailers and chose RightScale, it took us only four months from development to launch of our new service, Allurent on Demand. RightScale cloud management was instrumental in creating and managing the new operations infrastructure for our new service.”
Fumi Matsumoto, Co-founder and CTO
Allurent
“It is vital to our business to be able add servers quickly to handle surges in traffic from our users. RightScale makes scaling fast, easy, and dependable.”
Aaron Gibralter, CTO and co-founder
Urtak.com
“RightScale really flies your business above the cloud. It has enabled our team to manage and monitor a large number of servers with ease, allowing us to maximize focus on our core business.”
David Maestri, CEO, Metamoki, Inc.
“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
“RightScale significantly reduced our manpower requirement by turning what could be a resource-intensive job into a simple solution. RightScale has been very reliable for us, and our team likes that it's easy to use.”
Chad Chatfield, VP of Technology
Patheos
“Managing our deployment with RightScale allowed DoInk.com's small development team to shift focus away from coping with the technical minutia of scaling, and back to improving the entertainment experience we bring to thousands of users. We are well aware of the time and headache avoided by leveraging RightScale tools, investment, and knowledge. Thanks for the peace of mind while we bring the fun!”
Aaron White, CTO, DoInk
“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
“RightScale allows a startup like us to have extreme benchstrength in an area we couldn’t afford any other way.”
Carol Schrader, CEO
givezooks!
“RightScale helped us port our development platform to Amazon in weeks, saving at least 30 percent of our server development costs. But the real savings was on the testing side—RightScale provided a robust scalability solution out of the box that would otherwise have taken months of testing to get right.”
Chris Keene, CEO, WaveMaker
“RightScale has far exceeded our expectations with their powerful yet easy to use solution for managing EC2 instances. Their expertise in this area has been invaluable to our business and I remain confident that we now have the ideal solution for managing our web servers.”
Yusuf Bhana, e-Business Manager, Wexas
“Despite no prior experience with Amazon's EC2 service, RightScale helped us build a scalable web platform on EC2 in a just a few weeks. We could not have done it without them.”
Sean O'Toole, Founder, ForeclosureRadar
“The RightScale team rocks! They reduced our timeline by 3 months and cut our hosting bills by 40 percent.”
Gary Burke, CTO, TuneCore
“I wanted to send a personal 'thank you' for the hard and dedicated work the RightScale technical team performed for us—they have done a truly stellar job. Without the RightScale partnership, the launch of our new site would not have been possible on our timeline.”
Todd Williams, VP of Technology, Genuitec
