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RightScale Delivers Critical Cloud Computing and MySQL Database Management Capabilities for the Enterprise

STRUCTURE 08 CONFERENCE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA – June 25, 2008/ – RightScale Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced RightScale Manager for MySQL Enterprise, an offering designed to make it easier for organizations to deploy MySQL databases in the Amazon Web Services cloud. Starting July 1, RightScale customers will receive the benefits of RightScale’s automation and scale-on-demand cloud management platform, coupled with MySQL Enterprise premium-level support for large database applications.
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Gigaspaces and RightScale Partner to Deliver Scalable Applications in the Amazon EC2 Cloud

NEW YORK, NY and SANTA BARBARA, CA–/SHIFT Communications – June 10, 2008/ –RightScale Inc., GigaSpaces Technologies and RightScale, Inc. today announced their alliance to provide an integrated solution for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Ideal for data-intensive and transactional applications, the joint solution offers an affordable end-to-end stack for easily deploying and scaling applications running on Amazon Web Services. By integrating the GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) with RightScale’s automated cloud computing management platform, customers will have unparalleled automation, simplicity and performance in scaling-out applications in the cloud.
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RightScale Featured on Mashable [podcast]

Mashable.com – Apr. 23, 2008, RightScale CEO, Michael Crandell was recently featured in an interview with Mark Hopkins on his show, “Mashable Conversations.” Michael gives a great overview of cloud computing and explains the growing interest among start-ups, mid-size, and even enterprise level businesses. The interview explains why cloud computing is such a disruptive technology, as well as RightScale’s role in this rapidly evolving industry. Michael talks about some hot topics in cloud computing such as data security issues and the overall stability of web infrastructures built on the cloud. He also provides a realistic comparison between hosting websites or applications on the cloud vs. hosting them on traditional hosting infrastructures.
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RightScale Raises $4.5 Million from Benchmark Capital

SANTA BARBARA, CA – /GMK Communications – Apr. 24, 2008/ – RightScale Inc., the leading automated management platform for Internet cloud computing services, today announced it has secured $4.5 million in first-round venture financing from Benchmark Capital. RightScale will use the funds to accelerate customer growth and develop more tools that enable developers to create and automate reliable, scalable and high-performing web applications for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Benchmark Capital general partner Kevin Harvey will join the company’s board of directors.
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RightScale Releases Capability for New Internet Addressing and Reliability Controls in Cloud Computing

SANTA BARBARA, CA – /Marketwire – Mar. 27, 2008/ – RightScale Inc., the award-winning provider of the leading management platform for Internet cloud computing services, today announced it has delivered a new edition of its RightScale Platform that encapsulates control of new core features of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Accessed through the RightScale Dashboard, the new controls provide an unprecedented degree of convenience and management of both IP addressing and reliability configuration for multi-server compute clusters deployed on Amazon's EC2 service. With this new edition, the RightScale Platform now enables developers to deploy web services into multiple datacenter locations to achieve a degree of fault resilience unmatched by traditional solutions.
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Technology Council of Southern California Names RightScale ‘Best of Show’ at VentureNet™ 2007

TORRANCE, CA – /PRNewswire-USNewswire – Oct. 24, 2007/ – The Technology Council of Southern California (http://www.tcosc.org), announced today that RightScale, Inc. was voted “Best of Show” at VentureNet™ 2007 (http://www.venturenet.org), the region’s premier capital conference for technology companies. The vote came after excellent presentations by 13 of the most promising new technology companies in the region. The "Best of Show" award was voted on by a select group of investors who reviewed each company against five criteria:

Most innovative product or service Most promising company Most compelling value proposition Best investment opportunity Best presentation

“The quality of this year’s presenters was unparalleled,” said Jon Kraft, Technology Council chairman of the board.“ As our attendees have come to expect, all of the presentations were clear, concise, and positively received by the venture capitalists on the review panels, and we are pleased to give the Best of Show designation to RightScale, Inc.”
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Business Objects and Citrix Systems Simplify Reporting for Mid-Market Customers

LAS VEGAS – /BUSINESS WIRE – Oct. 23, 2007/ – Building on the success of its Open Appliance Initiative, Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ) (Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 – BOB), the world’s leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced it has partnered with leaders in the application delivery space – including Citrix Systems (Nasdaq: CTXS), rPath, and RightScale – to deliver a Crystal Reports® Server XI virtual appliance. The new offering is a pre-installed and pre-configured solution that will help reduce deployment time from days to minutes. In addition, for the first time, the two companies are offering customers a chance to instantly evaluate the product through a virtual ‘test-drive,’ thus eliminating the cost and complexity typically associated with enterprise software evaluations.
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RightScale Wins ‘Best of Show’ at VentureNet 2007 for Pushbutton Delivery of Cloud Computing

SANTA BARBARA, CA – /Marketwire – Oct. 22, 2007/ – RightScale, Inc., the award-winning provider of the leading management platform for emerging Internet infrastructure services, today announced it earned top recognition at VentureNet 2007 for “delivering on the promise of cloud computing.” Distinguished as a “company to watch” by a committee of venture capital, angel investors and sponsors at Southern California’s premier technology investment event, RightScale won "Best of Show" for its leadership vision and demonstrated ability to target customers, provide a best-of-breed solution, drive competitive advantage and deliver superior shareholder value.
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