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Talkin' Cloud
April 18, 2013
RightScale to Support Windows Azure Infrastructure Services
The new “Get Your App to Azure” program from RightScale will help Windows Azure customers accelerate application development on Microsoft’s new Windows Azure Infrastructure Services.
Network World
April 17, 2013
OpenStack's Hottest Products Right Now
RightScale is one of “OpenStack’s hottest products right now” thanks to its multi-cloud management platform and public beta support for OpenStack Folsom and Rackspace Private Cloud.
Silicon Angle
April 17, 2013
Hybrid Model Emerging in the Cloud, Says Bailey Caldwell of RightScale
It’s becoming more difficult to differentiate between an internal IT organization’s role and a cloud provider’s role, according to RightScale Vice President of Business Development Bailey Caldwell. The key is to focus on the apps, data, and tools you need to run the infrastructure.
SearchCloudComputing.com
April 16, 2013
Cloud Computing Templates Give IT Teams Control
Cloud computing templates such as the ones developed by RightScale help IT teams keep some control over their cloud technology, according to Mark Szynaka, founder of consultancy CloudeBroker. Templates let organizations expedite testing of multiple competing systems or applications, easily separate development and production environments, and get return on investment fairly quickly.
Network Computing
April 11, 2013
Cloud Prices Drop, But Do Customers Save?
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Rackspace have cut prices 29 times during the past 14 months reports RightScale — but customers also shouldn't let falling prices excuse them from paying attention to how much they're actually spending. Cloud is still a technology purchase, and differences in implementation, configuration, technical standards, and interoperability make clouds too complex for customers to pick one over another based only on price.
Talkin' Cloud
April 11, 2013
RightScale Compute Conference: Cloud Computing's Present and Future
The RightScale Compute conference combines technical presentations to promote a better understanding of key cloud technologies with sessions and keynotes that focus on the bigger picture of where the cloud is going and how it relates to the channel at large.
Wired
April 11, 2013
Cloud Tips: Avoiding Digital Ad Campaign Meltdowns
Online marketing efforts often face huge unpredictable traffic spikes that can cripple traditional infrastructure. Cloud infrastructure is a natural fit for the spiky traffic from short-term campaigns and to support long-term growth of mobile and social apps and websites. RightScale has provided the cloud management technology and expertise to a broad range of agencies and consumer brands that have moved campaigns to the cloud.
GigaOm
March 13, 2013
Power Outages Are the Most Pervasive Reasons for Cloud Outages
RightScale reports that power loss or failed backup was the top cause of cloud outages over the last year. Power problems will always be a way of life for most cloud providers, even with power resiliency programs and technology in place. The challenge is to reduce the impact of widespread power disruptions on cloud providers.
Web Host Industry Review
February 28, 2013
Average Public Cloud Outage Downtime Nears 8 Hours: RightScale Infographic
New research by cloud management provider RightScale shows that the average downtime per outage across clouds, private data centers, and traditional hosting providers is 7.5 hours. The key takeaway is the need to architect your applications to stay up even when your cloud or data center isn’t.
GigaOm
February 25, 2013
Exclusive: RightScale Is First to Resell, Support Google Compute Engine
RightScale will be the first to start reselling and providing first-line support for Google Compute Engine, Google’s public cloud infrastructure. RightScale already delivers cloud management for companies who use Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, and HP Cloud for single or multiple public cloud deployments. It also enables cloud management across private and hybrid cloud environments.
Information Week
February 18, 2013
10 Tools to Prevent Cloud Vendor Lock-In
RightScale was the first cloud management service for provisioning, deploying, and managing workloads across multiple public and private clouds. Customers can control the level of automation they need, modify their operational guidelines as they see fit, and gain visibility across all their deployments from a single dashboard.
Data Center Knowledge
January 4, 2013
The Cloudy Horizon for 2013: 10 Predictions
Cloud industry executives, including RightScale CEO Michael Crandell, contribute their insights on what we can expect in the sector in 2013. Crandell reports that hybrid cloud and multiple cloud usage will grow, citing data that 87 percent of the usage under RightScale management is by customers with multi-cloud deployments.
Network World
December 3, 2012
2013: Year of the Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid cloud management will become key in 2013 as enterprises make it a priority to adopt fully automated private cloud architectures by employing a strategic mix of public clouds and commercially packaged private clouds plus cloud management services.
Forbes
December 3, 2012
2013 Prediction: We'll Finally Get Real About Cloud
In 2013 we'll see enterprises "get down to business" with incorporating cloud services and platforms into their IT portfolios says Forrester analyst James Staten. Chief among them are cloud cost forecasting services such as the one offered by RightScale.
Wired
November 26, 2012
Six Must-Have Cloud Management Features
According to Gartner, nearly 20 percent of companies are using cloud computing for most of their production applications. Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is already a $6 billion market and growing. IaaS consumers are looking to cloud management platforms to deploy, manage, monitor, and control applications across public and private clouds to achieve both agility and cost savings.
TechCrunch
August 28, 2012
RightScale Named Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum has selected RightScale as one of 23 companies poised to change the world as 2013 Technology Pioneers, joining the ranks of past winners Google, Twitter, and PayPal.
Information Week
April 23, 2012
4 Keys to Hybrid Cloud Planning
While the hybrid cloud approach — the blending of both private and public cloud environments — is gaining traction, the reality of building a bridge that effectively leverages the strengths of both architectures is ending up to be a greater challenge than many anticipated. Michael Crandell, CEO of RightScale, which provides a cloud management solution that helps companies more easily manage all of their cloud infrastructure, explains why running some applications on a public cloud and some on a private cloud is better than spanning a single application across both.
Information Week
March 30, 2012
6 Reasons to Use Multiple Cloud Providers
While some companies are still debating whether to use cloud infrastructure providers, others are debating how many to use. Coupa Software and Music Mastermind have embraced the multi-cloud model by using multiple public clouds and multiple public and private clouds along with RightScale to keep their companies agile.
Data Center Knowledge
February 28, 2012
RightScale, Equinix Partner on Cloud Services
The partnership between data center giant Equinix and cloud management solutions provider RightScale gives companies the ability to increase the speed and reliability of delivering comprehensive cloud environments. IT teams can now rack and stack RightScale-ready clouds in Equinix data centers, and current Equinix customers can use RightScale to manage clouds they already have in Equinix facilities.
Fortune
December 22, 2011
Is There a Cloud Bubble?
While it may be too soon to know if recent acquisitions of smaller, faster growing SaaS-based companies by larger enterprise software vendors justify their inflated valuations, what is clear is that the shift from on-premise to cloud-based software is not merely a passing trend. RightScale CEO Michael Crandell dismisses the bubble theory of the cloud, instead suggesting that it is the third revolution, after the advent of the PC and the Internet.
GigaOm
December 21, 2011
Some Big Thoughts on Big Data and Cloud for 2012
RightScale CEO Michael Crandell sees the lack of API standards among public infrastructure-as-a-service clouds as a challenge that’s ripe to be addressed in 2012. With an official standard API, developers would be able to avoid IaaS vendor lock-in and write workloads that run seamlessly across public clouds.
Forbes
October 26, 2011
RightScale: Believing in the Cloud When It Wasn't Cool
When Michael Crandell co-founded RightScale, the original focus was on providing software to help manage cloud environments for Amazon.com’s Web Services platform, AWS. At the time, not many saw potential in the cloud market. And how could an e-commerce player like Amazon make headway in the industry? Now there are many other players in the market, such as Rackspace, and business has soared for RightScale.
Silicon Angle
August 3, 2011
Cloud Computing Not Always Cheaper: Zynga Case Study
In this summary of a case study on the meteoric success of the largest social game developer Zynga, the author highlights Zynga’s use of RightScale to manage both its private cloud and public AWS cloud together and its ability to provision more than 1,000 physical servers in 24 hours to keep up with its growth.
MSPNews
July 11, 2011
RightScale: Taking Away the Pain of Coordinating and Managing All Your Cloud Resources
TMC CEO Rich Tehrani caught up with RightScale CEO Michael Crandell at the RightScale User Conference and Cloud Expo in New York City to discuss the company’s new myCloud solution, which provides enterprises with a highly efficient management platform for hybrid and private cloud computing.
Seeking Alpha
July 8, 2011
Zynga’s Cloud Computing Advantage
Following news of social game leader Zynga’s IPO filing, this article features an analysis by Derrick Harris of GigaOM, who examines Zynga’s unconventional approach to hybrid cloud computing and the roles that AWS, Cloud.com, and RightScale play in providing the infrastructure and management layers for its Z Cloud.
InfoTech
June 21, 2011
Hybrid Clouds: The Best of Both Worlds
While cloud computing is attractive to many businesses, larger enterprises often have issues with security and reliability. There is, however, a best-of-both-worlds solution: private cloud. Reporter Mae Kowalke speaks with David Butler from Eucalyptus about his company’s partnership with RightScale to deliver myCloud, a solution for helping enterprises quickly stand up private clouds.
Cloud Computing Journal
June 18, 2011
RightScale and Eucalyptus: The State of the Art in Enterprise-Grade Cloud Computing
Technology reporter Maureen O’Gara covers the debut of a new edition of Eucalyptus called Eucalyptus FastStart, which will be bundled with the new free version of RightScale myCloud, a management platform for private and hybrid clouds.
CloudITPro
June 14, 2011
Cloud.com, RightScale Team on Private Cloud
Peder Ulander, CMO of Cloud.com, discusses the joint solution called myCloud that his company has developed with cloud management platform RightScale for easily configuring, launching, and managing private cloud deployments.
Web Host Industry Review
May 31, 2011
Cloud Management Platform RightScale Launches MultiCloud Marketplace
The new MultiCloud Marketplace™ from RightScale is featured as the first “app store” for IT professionals using the cloud and the first to offer true multi-cloud portability. RightScale Solutions Architect Brian Adler explains that the RightScale ServerTemplates™ available through the MultiCloud Marketplace are the key to automating server configuration in a single cloud or across multiple clouds.
GigaOM
May 31, 2011
RightScale the Latest to Provide App Store for Infrastructure
Technology reporter Derrick Harris posits that for RightScale, which provides a management layer to ease the task of launching and running resources on infrastructure-as-a-service clouds such as Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, the launch of its configuration marketplace is primarily about “letting users expand their RightScale use at their own speeds.”
Forbes
May 26, 2011
The Good News About Cloud Architecture: Everything Fails
Although the failure modes of cloud versus traditional data center architectures may differ in nature and frequency, RightScale CEO Michael Crandell reveals in this article for Forbes how cloud infrastructures, when managed correctly, actually provide unprecedented capabilities to deliver high availability, resiliency, and business continuity in IT operations.
RightScale Launches Cloud Package For Developers, Testers - InformationWeek, September 29, 2010
"RightScale has teamed up with IBM and Zend Technologies to produce a rapid onramp for developers and testers to move their work into the cloud. " Read the full article here.
RightScale Launches New Solution Pack for Development and Testing in the Cloud - CM Crossroads, September 28, 2010
"RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced the RightScale Development & Test Solution Pack -- a cloud management solution designed to help software development and testing teams more easily provision and use cloud computing resources to improve software quality and speed time-to-market." Read the full article here.
RightScale Adds Dev Test Support to Beef Up their Offering - Cloud Ave., September 28, 2010
"RightScale has announced the Development & Test Solution Pack" Read the full article here.
RightScale Sells Cloud for Dev & Test - SearchCloudComputing.com, September 28, 2010
"RightScale has announced the Development & Test Solution Pack" Read the full article here.
RightScale to Hire Up To 55 Engineers and IT Staff - Wall Street Journal, FINS Technology, September 23, 2010
"RightScale, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based startup that helps companies manage their cloud networks, will be hiring between 35 and 55 workers after raising a $25 million funding round." Read the full article here.
Today in Tech - Fortune, September 23, 2010
"Cloud management software provider RightScale, which claims Zynga and Playfish as clients, raised $25 million during its third round of funding." Read the full article here.
Cloud: RightScale Raises $25 Million - TheVARGuy, September 23, 2010
"Cloud computing management solution vendor RightScale has announced the completion of a successful round of venture funding — to the tune of $25 million." Read the full article here.
RightScale Locks In $25 Million Cloud Investment - CRN, September 22, 2010
"RightScale has secured $25 million in funding, cash it will use to fuel cloud computing innovation, hire sales and engineering staff and make the strategic investment in its channel." Read the full article here.
RightScale grabs another $25M for web-based cloud management - VentureBeat, September 22, 2010
"Cloud management software provider RightScale has raised another $25 million in its third round of funding" Read the full article here.
RightScale grabs another $25 million for web-based cloud management - Reuters, September 22, 2010
"Cloud management software provider RightScale has raised another $25 million in its third round of funding." Read the full article here.
RightScale, Aster Data raise millions in funding - CNET, September 22, 2010
"Cloud management platform RightScale raised $25 million in a C round of financing, bringing total funds raised to $47 million" Read the full article here.
RightScale Raises $25 Million in New Funds - GigaOM, September 22, 2010
"RightScale, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based cloud management software maker, has raised $25 million in new funds from Tenaya Capital, joined by DAG Ventures and other current investors: Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and Presidio Ventures." Read the full article here.
Cloud management platform RightScale raises $25 million - TechCrunch, September 22, 2010
"RightScale, a company that offers a cloud computing management platform, has raised $25 million led by Tenaya Capital with DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and Presidio Ventures participating." Read the full article here.
Top Cloud Computing Startups - SearchCloudComputing.com, August 26, 2010
"With more than a hundred employees and a customer base in the thousands, the name RightScale is synonymous with cloud computing success" Read the full article here.
RightScale: Now we do Windows - Pacific Coast Business Times, August 23, 2010
"Case in point: Santa Barbara-based RightScale more than doubled its potential market on Aug. 17 just by rolling out compatibility with Windows Server software." Read the full article here.
RightScale Scales Up to 1.3 Million Servers in View - InformationWeek, August 19, 2010
"...Nearly 30 companies and organizations threw their support behind the new OpenStack open source cloud computing platform unveiled by Rackspace Hosting. Here are some of the channel-friendly vendors who are supporting one open source cloud computing platform or another." Read the full article here.
Open Source Cloud Computing: Channel-Friendly Vendors Who Support It - Channel Insider, August 8, 2010
"...Nearly 30 companies and organizations threw their support behind the new OpenStack open source cloud computing platform unveiled by Rackspace Hosting. Here are some of the channel-friendly vendors who are supporting one open source cloud computing platform or another." Read the full article here.
RightScale Cloud Usage Up 1000 From Last Year - The VAR Guy, August 8, 2010
"Cloud computing management solution vendor RightScale has announced that in June 2010 vs. June 2009, their customers used 1000% more cloud solutions." Read the full article here.
RightScale Customer Spending Grows Tenfold in a Year - SearchCloudComputing.com, August 5, 2010
"Highlighting the need for management software on top of basic cloud computing, RightScale says its customers are spending ten times the amount they were in 2009." Read the full article here.
RightScale Points to How the Cloud Industry is Scaling - ReadWrite/Cloud, August 4, 2010
"Cloud computing management provider RightScale updated its blog this morning with some impressive figures that point to company's growth: its customers' cloud computing usage has increased by 1000% in one year." Read the full article here.
Why Open Source Matters: Cloud Insiders Weigh In - GigaOM.com, July 19, 2010
"Last evening, I reported on the emergence of OpenStack, an open-source cloud project backed by Rackspace and supported by NASA and two dozen other companies." Read the full article here.
Why Open Source Matters: Cloud Insiders Weigh In - BraddSchick.com, July 15, 2010
"If you want to deploy servers or server arrays in Amazon's AWS or if you want to deploy them in RackSpace or even GoGrid. RightScale provides a simple yet effective interface to manage all of these deployments through a web based console." Read the full article here.
Cloud Computing: GigaOM Structure 2010 Puts Cloud Computing on Display - eWeek.com, June 28, 2010
"I talked with representatives from RightScale about automated management services that they offer for workloads running in the cloud." Read the full article here.
How Zynga Survived FarmVille - GigaOM.com, June 8, 2010
"Amazon allowed Williams to "acquire instances at will" using RightScale, which he called "absolutely key." Read the full article here.
What Cloud Computing Means and 10 Cloud Computing Leaders - Forbes, June 4, 2010
"As cloud computing shows its strengths in flexibility and economical operations, corporate computing operations are taking notice — even at companies that are too conservative to place much trust in the cloud services on the Internet." Read the full article here.
The RightScale Cloud Management Platform - Neovise, June 1, 2010
"RightScale provides cloud management solutions that enable you to design, deploy, manage, and automate business-critical applications on the cloud. To date, hundreds of thousands of deployments have been launched on the RightScale Cloud Management Platform – running everything from scalable websites to complex grid applications." Read the full article here.
10 Cloud Computing Leaders - Datamation, May 26, 2010
"RightScale promises to deliver control and portability back to IT as cloud sprawl threatens to become just as bad as data-center sprawl. The RightScale Cloud Management Platform allows organizations to deploy and manage applications across multiple clouds." Read the full article here.
RightScale Customers Gain Agility - Jasper Hill Group, May 18, 2010
"RightScale was founded in 2006. They are a SaaS that manages IaaS for both public, private and hybrid clouds." Read the full article here.
How IT Will Conquer Complexity - Forbes, May 18, 2010
"Right now, the two predominant methods are scripting and model-driven configuration. Scripting is the act of writing a program that controls the configuration of IT assets. RightScale has scripts for controlling deployment and management of cloud resources." Read the full article here.
Cloud computing's secret sauce - CNET News, May 18, 2010
"Along the way I suspect we'll see open-source companies like Puppet Labs and Opscode, as well as open-source savvy companies like RightScale, really thrive." Read the full article here.
Software Development Is Headed For The Cloud - InformationWeek,
May 11, 2010
"Today, two of the leading cloud infrastructure suppliers, Microsoft, with its Azure cloud, and Amazon Web Services with its EC2, are not interested in running VMware virtual machines. But there's a second generation of cloud infrastructure providers coming along who are: Verizon Business Computing as a Service, RightScale as a front end to other cloud providers, Terremark, Hosting.com, Savvis and AT&T's Synaptic Compute Cloud." Read the full article here.
Clear Skies Ahead: 10 Demystifying Cloud Computing Products From Cloud Connect - Network World, May 10, 2010
"RightScale this week added new enterprise features to its RightScale Cloud Management Platform beefing up authorization and permissioning controls, cost-tracking and overall management of running virtual servers in the cloud across large organizations with multiple users, departments and projects" Read the full article here.
First-Ever Test of Public Cloud Management Wares - Network World,
May 10, 2010
"It's simple to rent raw compute power on the public cloud. The challenge is to deploy, manage, and take down jobs that are hosted in the cloud. In this groundbreaking test, we set up public cloud accounts at Amazon, Rackspace and GoGrid, and tested management services from RightScale, Tap In Systems and Cloudkick under real world conditions." Read the full article here.
Top Ten Cloud Computing Leaders - SearchCloudComputing.com,
May 7, 2010
"Cloud computing could not have emerged as the fastest growing trend in IT today without a cavalcade of forward-thinking people powering its rise. Whether they are business executives, chief technology officers or influential bloggers, the direction of the cloud is being steered by several powerful and progressive IT minds. This list of the top 10 cloud computing leaders [featuring RightScale founder Thorsten von Eicken], as of May 2010, includes both pioneers and innovators. Our goal in creating it is to emphasize those who have made, and continue to make, a true impact in the world of cloud computing." Read the full article here.
RightScale, Overview - Kendall Square
"RightScale provides a cloud computing management solution to enable companies to design, deploy, manage, and automate business-critical applications in the cloud, whether in a public (e.g. Amazon, Google App Engine, GoGrid) or private cloud. RightScale's software as a service (SaaS) solution brings together a fully-automated management platform that delivers the scalable, cost-effective, on-demand power of cloud computing, while providing complete IT control and transparency."
State of the Internet Operating System Part Two: Handicapping the Internet Platform Wars - O'Reilly Radar, April 30, 2010
"Companies like RightScale provide higher level management frameworks; EngineYard and Heroku provide Ruby-on-Rails based stacks that make it easy to use familiar web tools to deploy applications against an Amazon back-end; the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud and Eucalyptus offer Amazon-compatible solutions."
Understanding the Cloud Landscape - O'Reilly Broadcast, April 29, 2010
"The cloud infrastructure management space is a very crowded space with a few major players: CA (via Nimsoft), CloudKick, Elastra, enStratus, and RightScale. In addition, CloudSwitch and CohesiveFT have elements of cloud infrastructure management, but generally fit more into the hybrid cloud integration pillar."
RightScale Opens Cloud Management Platform - Network Computing, April 26, 2010
"RightScale, the supplier of an online platform where cloud users prepare, launch and monitor workloads in public clouds, has opened up the use of its platform for customers and partners who want to prepare and launch cloud servers on their own."
Cloud Expo: RightScale to Try Behavior Modification - Virtualization Journal, April 24, 2010
"RightScale, the cloud manager, is going to be venturing into behavior modification."
RightScale adds support for user-created virtual machines - TechTarget, April 22, 2010
"RightScale has added a much requested feature to its cloud management product -- support for user-created virtual machine (VM) images. Before the announcement of the RightScale Cloud Management Platform, users would choose a RightScale VM image, or create their own using templates and preapproved scripts, and manage them with RightScale's Web portal."
RightScale Opens Management Platform to User-Developed Cloud Images - Cloud Computing Journal, April 22, 2010
"At the RightScale User Meetup being held at Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in NYC, RightScale has announced that customers and partners can, for the first time, use the RightScale Cloud Management Platform to deploy, monitor and manage cloud servers launched with their own cloud machine images."
RightScale Opens Up Virtualization Management Platform - CTO Edge, April 21, 2010
"RightScale, a provider of management software for virtual machines running across multiple cloud computing services, now allows customers to manage custom images using the RightScale software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. "
Ironing out the cloud – IT Management & Cloud Podcast #70 - RedMonk, Cote, April 16, 2010
"RightScale and the new type of tech CEO, accessible and brand-building."
Public, Private, Hybrid: What the 'Enhanced' Public Cloud Means for Enterprise - HPC in the Cloud, April 15, 2010
"In line with that, on April 14, cloud computing management firm RightScale announced the launch of RightScale Grid Computing Solution Pack, which was created to handle grid processing in the infinite space of public cloud infrastructures, which of course includes Amazon Web Services. Using the public cloud space for massive data-intensive applications that require significant computing power is nothing new necessarily, but for smaller enterprise use, this is an important enhancement."
RightScale Rolls Out Grid Computing Product - socalTECH.com,
April 15, 2010
"Santa Barbara-based RightScale, the venture-backed developer of cloud computing management software backed by Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures, said yesterday that it has launched a new product specifically focused on grid processing."
RightScale manages complexities of using Amazon's cloud - insideHPC, April 14, 2010
"4-year old cloud computing software company RightScale announced today that they've extended their cloud management goodness to Amazon's storage and compute services."
RightScale Expands Its Ecosystem - SYS-CON Australia, April 3, 2010
"Hitachi Systems & Services Ltd, one of the largest systems integrators in Japan, is going to resell and support RightScale's Cloud Management Platform starting April 1. Apparently it's standardized on the stuff and it seems the deal is non-exclusive. Hitachi wants it to support hybrid clouds. RightScale's also gotten ProKarma, supposedly the fastest-growing American IT services firm, batting for it."
Are You the Next Zynga? The Rocket Science at RightScale Helps Deliver a Safe Liftoff - ReadWriteCloud, April 3, 2010
"Zynga is a leading example of how to wield cloud infrastructure to achieve scale. The company uses RightScale to help match demand of its incredibly successful game franchise with appropriate resources. "
25 Top Information Managers: 2010 - Information Management
"Alongside the elastic cloud approach, Lilly is leveraging RightScale's infrastructure management interface and services against appliance/application stacks in a "vending machine" concept that allows self-service to infrastructure and up to three tiers of applications as needed."
$10 Million Is The New $100 Million - Forbes, March 30, 2010
"RightScale is a good starting point. This technology allows automation of the creation of virtual machines and the installation of software on those machines so that computing capacity can be rapidly added or subtracted to meet demand. RightScale has shown how on-demand scaling can help a wide range of applications, from high-performance computing to online games."
Mickos new CEO at cloud manager Eucalyptus - The Register,
March 22, 2010
"Since May 2007, RightScale has been an industry leader in what is known as "cloud computing" management. In its most basic form, cloud computing has been described as the process of taking the services and tasks traditionally performed by computers and bringing them to the Web."
RightScale releases millionth cloud server - ITWeb, March 19, 2010
"RightScale has released more than one million servers on the cloud through its RightScale Cloud Management Platform, says Data Centre Knowledge. RightScale, a three-year old cloud specialist, has helped deploy cloud installations for clients ranging from social gaming company Zynga to entertainment conglomerate Sony Music."
IBM Offers Software Development in the Cloud - Top Tech News,
March 17, 2010
"These include RightScale and Kaavo to facilitate deployment of applications and workloads, Navajo Systems for additional security, and Silanis for e-signature process management for transactions. "
IBM adding development and test offering to public cloud - ARN,
March 17, 2010
"Big Blue also released a list of cloud partners Tuesday, including RightScale and Kaavo, which make cloud management software; security vendor Navajo Systems; performance monitoring software maker AppFirst and application development vendors Aviarc, Corent and Wavemaker."
RightScale releases millionth cloud server - Data Center Knowledge, March 17, 2010
"Cloud broker RightScale has launched more than 1 million servers on the cloud through its RightScale Cloud Management Platform, the company announced today."
Virtualization's Limits - Forbes, March 16, 2010
"Companies like RightScale offer the ability to create, provision and manage resources in the cloud. With such technology you can write applications that can automatically scale up and down based on the workload. RightScale is also launching applications on any one of a number of clouds--Amazon's EC2, the Rackspace Cloud and others."
Getting Mighty Clouded - Forbes, March 16, 2010
"A company called Rightscale, in Santa Barbara, Calif., specializes in just such peak needs and has "nine of the top 12 Facebook games--at peak use, 2% of the Internet" running on its machines, said company chief Michael Crandell. Not bad, for a four-year-old outfit. Demand for those big uses will only grow, he figured, when larger companies become more comfortable with the security capabilities of the cloud. Already, he said, Rightscale machines are used for spot protein analysis carried out by pharmaceutical companies."
Clouds under the hammer - The Economist, March 11, 2010
"RightScale is a pioneer in "cloud broking", meaning that it helps customers switch between clouds or use several different ones so they do not have to keep all their eggs in one computing basket."
Cloud management tools for beginners - SearchCloudComputing.com, March 9, 2010
"RightScale is the big boy on the block right now. Like many vendors in the nascent market, they offer a free edition with limitations on features and capacity, designed to introduce you to the product."
RightScale Rides Cloud of Success with 'Cloud Computing' System - Noozhawk, March 4, 2010
"Since May 2007, RightScale has been an industry leader in what is known as "cloud computing" management. In its most basic form, cloud computing has been described as the process of taking the services and tasks traditionally performed by computers and bringing them to the Web."
Cloud Hosting Providers - Cloud Hosting Mag, February 27, 2010
"Not technically a separate provider as they are in essence a reseller of Amazon's AWS, but RightScale offers a very useful platform for customers to quickly create scalable Web applications running on AWS. RightScale claims that it is the only end-to-end management platform for AWS for quickly creating a highly scalable environment for hosting large web applications. Rightscale is suitable for large web apps which require 3 or more Amazon Web Services EC2 instances."
Amazon, Salesforce.com and Google Continue to Lead the Cloudsphere - Cloud Distribution, February 23, 2010
"So here is my list of the Top 25 Global Cloud Services Providers gaining mind share in the first quarter of 2010.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3), andVirtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Salesforce.com / Sales Cloud 2 (CRM), Service Cloud 2 (Support), Force.com (Development Platform), Chatter (Collaboration)
- Google Apps (AppEngine)
- Citrix – XenServer (Virtualization)
- VMWare – vSphere (Virtualization)
- Rackspace – Mosso
- NetSuite
- RightScale
Gaming Hints At Enterprise Cloud Future - InformationWeek,
February 22, 2010
"Just as they lead in the use of social networking and smart phones, more and more consumers are making use of the cloud -- in most cases well ahead of enterprise IT departments. RightScale, an outfit at the forefront of managing that use, says all the consumer activity may supply a model for how IT invokes cloud computing as well." Read the full article here.
Open sourcers fortify Ubuntu's Koala food - The Register,
February 19, 2010
"There are, however, third-party platforms that can front Eucalyptus with a GUI admin console - a browser-based tool for designing, implementing, and monitoring your virtual infrastructure. RightScale - founded by Thorsten von Eicken, a former academic research colleague of Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels - is the most prominent example." Read the full article here.
RightScale Offers Gaming Edition - CloudAve, February 19, 2010
"Cloud Brokers are service providers who sit between the user and the cloud to offer additional value add on top of the cloud. One such company is Rightscale, a California based company founded in 2006 and having launched close to 100K servers on the cloud. They are one of the largest Cloud Brokers helping companies of all size and shapes take advantage of the cloud. Rightscale already supports AWS, GoGrid, Flexiscale, Eucalyptus and Rackspace. They also support VMWare’s vCloud and announced plans to support Windows Azure. In my opinion, they are one of the most agile companies out there in the space and you can know this by just listening to their CEO, Michael Crandell, talk. His enthusiasm for Cloud Computing is truly infectious." Read the full article here.
Amazon plays behind the scenes role with popular social games - TechFlash, February 17, 2010
"Here's an interesting niche for Amazon's cloud computing business: social games. The online retailer is quietly providing the web infrastructure for popular Facebook games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, according to RightScale, a cloud services management and consulting firm. RightScale says it's working with the top three social gaming companies – Zynga, Crowdstar and Playfish — to "launch, manage and grow" games on top of Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service." Read the full article here.
RightScale Powering Social Games on EC2 - Data Center Knowledge, February 17, 2010
"The popularity of Amazon’s cloud for running gaming apps for social networks has been a huge boost for RightScale, which helps social gaming companies Zynga, Crowdstar and Playfish manage their infrastructure on EC2. Eight of the 12 most popular games on the Web today run on RightScale, including FarmVille, Café World, Mafia Wars, FishVille, Happy Aquarium, Pet Society, PetVille, and Restaurant City." Read the full article here.
Rackspace: The Avis of Cloud Computing? - Thinking Out Cloud, February 15, 2010
"Finally, one more factor will play an important role in the success of each of the cloud providers, and that is the ecosystems that evolves around their products. That means management, automation and monitoring tools (e.g., RightScale, CloudKick, enStratus), Machine Image support (such as the AMIs from Red Hat/Jboss on EC2) and other ancillary products and services that form a 'whole product'." Read the full article here.
Cloud Virtualizers – Is virtualizing the virtual worthwhile? - Atomic Energy, February 12, 2010
"A significant player in this space is RightScale, the cloud management software and service company, who now have a “Cloud Portability” offering." Read the full article here.
Video: Michael Crandell, CEO of Rightscale - GigaOM Pro,
February 11, 2010
"Cloud computing no longer needs its own introduction, but the use cases and implementation are still being defined. In the video below, I chatted with Michael Crandell, CEO of Rightscale, a cloud management platform, about the changing ecosystem that's occurring in the cloud world as software as a service (SaaS) providers morph into platform as a service (PaaS) providers and several big providers forgo offering an infrastructure as a service (Iaas) in favor of a PaaS. We also discussed the challenge of moving data into the cloud and moving applications from one cloud to another. The conversation began with a discussion of Rightscale's business and ended up focusing on security and compliance." Read the full article here.
Technology Management Program UCSB: Cloud Computing - 2035 Technology Management, February 3, 2010
"Supercomputing power over the Internet? Michael Crandell, CEO & Founder, RightScale Inc., discusses automated technology that helps companies run scalable applications across numerous public and private clouds." Read the full article here.
Where Are the Network Virtual Appliances? - BusinessWeek,
January 31, 2010
"VMs can be used inside an enterprise IT department or on public clouds, such as Amazon's EC2. They can move from one physical or geographical location to another using a variety of tools and technologies, such as RightScale's Cloud Management Platform or VMware's VMotion. Yet unfortunately, when a VM moves from one location to another, it becomes dependent on the networking infrastructure of the physical appliances attached to the new location." Read the full article here.
Why Cloud Computing motivates green data center behavior - Green Data Center Blog,
January 22, 2010
"If you going to manage the Cloud there is RightScale." Read the full article here.
Cloud Computing Company Watch List - Green Data Center Blog, January 21, 2010
"MIT’s Technology Review has a list of the top Cloud Computing companies to watch." Read the full article here.
Alfresco and RightScale: Open Source and the Cloud - Counter Strike Source Pro,
December 27, 2009
"In The VAR Guy's FastChat Video, Alfresco Chief Marketing Officer Ian Howells describes how open source content management will move to the cloud. Also, how Alfresco is working with RightScale, the cloud management company." Read the full article here.
The Promise of Cloud Computing - Virtualization Untapped - VMBlog.com, December 23, 2009
"Throughout 2009 cloud computing has continued to gain mind share in the technology community. For IT organizations beleaguered with budget concerns and economic woes, cloud based solutions represented a virtual panacea. Cloud concepts evangelized value propositions ranging from painless scalability and simplified administration to demand based billing." Read the full article here.
Cool Emerging Vendors From A To Z: RightScale - Channel Web, December 22, 2009
"Enter RightScale, which developed an automated cloud management platform that businesses use to design, deploy and manage applications across multiple clouds. Delivered on a Software-as-a-Service basis, the RightScale Cloud Management Platform includes tools for developing, monitoring and managing cloud applications, a Web-based management interface and a library of cloud-ready software, said Michael Crandell, RightScale founder and CEO." Read the full article here.
Alfresco: How Refreshing - A Real Example of Cloud Computing - ReadWriteEnterprise, December 16, 2009
"Alfresco is teaming with Right Scale to offer a service that allows users to scale up and down their use of Alfresco's open-source content management software. Users pay according to how much they use the service. The service uses RightScale's cloud management platform." Read the full article here.
Technology Management Program UCSB: Cloud Computing - UCTV, September 14, 2009
"Supercomputing power over the Internet? Michael Crandell, CEO & Founder, RightScale Inc., discusses automated technology that helps companies run scalable applications across numerous public and private clouds." Read the full article here.
The Top 10 Cloud Computing Companies - The Data Center Journal,
July 14, 2009
"It is all very well to use services of other companies for cloud computing services, but then you certainly need to manage these services and this is certainly a big task in itself, which needs specially trained and experienced personnel. It is here that companies like RightScale come into the picture. This is the name of a company which helps its clients to manage the virtual cloud by setting up clone servers, monitoring the cloud for errors, load balancing and so forth. The company is just a recent start up coming into existence just a couple of years back. Yet it can boast of an impressive client base which include popular social networking vendors." Read the full article here.
10 cloud computing companies to watch - Network World, May 18, 2009
"Why we're watching it: Because for all of the cloud's promises of simplicity, deploying new virtual servers and applications in the cloud requires work on the part of the IT department, particularly if a customer is using multiple cloud services. RightScale is automating the grunt work required to use the cloud most effectively." Read the full article here.
How to buy cloud computing services - Network World, May 18, 2009
"Amazon partner RightScale, a start-up providing cloud computing management and support, did the heavy-lifting for Animoto -- to great success, Jefferson says. After moving the Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, the company launched a Facebook application that quickly went viral and became a case study for cloud scalability.
When the Facebook crowd glommed onto Animoto's free, on-demand video -creation tool last April, the company saw requests leap from 25,000 in the first month to 750,000 in a four-day period. Behind the scenes, the number of servers processing videos grew from 100 to 5,000, and back down again as demand leveled off. EC2 never hiccupped, Jefferson says." Read the full article here.
FAQ: Cloud computing, demystified - Network World, May 18, 2009
"There will always be some network latency with a cloud service, possibly making it slower than an application that runs in your local data center. But a new crop of third-party vendors are building services on top of the cloud to make sure applications can scale and perform well, such as RightScale.
By and large, the performance hit related to latency "is pretty negligible these days," RightScale CTO Thorsten von Eicken. The largest enterprises are distributed throughout the country or world, he notes, so many users will experience a latency-caused performance hit whether an application is running in the cloud or in the corporate data center." Read the full article here.
Cloud computing: Pros and cons - Network World, May 18, 2009
"Your mind really changes quickly when you can solve problems using IT resources but you don't need a long-term commitment and you don't have to wait a long time to get them," says Michael Crandell, CEO of RightScale, a cloud management and support company. "Cloud computing changes the whole pattern of agility at a much lower cost." Read the full article here.
RightScale to Extend Cloud Management to Private & Hybrid Clouds - Cloud Computing Journal, April 20, 2009
"Cloud computing technology is evolving rapidly, giving users many more choices for where and how to develop, test and deploy applications on the cloud, depending on the level of security, regulatory compliance, scalability and cost savings desired," said Thorsten von Eicken, RightScale CTO and founder." Read the full article here.
RightScale Trends Right With Hybrid Cloud Support - InformationWeek, April 20, 2009
"The company's expansion into environments that don't rely entirely on public, Internet-based computing resources serves as recognition of an important distinction: outside of the start-up realm, companies aren't likely to move all of their resources to the Web anytime soon, and many will indefinitely want to have a mix of resources on premises and online. For example, a media company might want to have Web servers on premises, using the cloud to quickly scale when a popular video gets posted online." Read the full article here.
Canonical parks cloud on Jackalope - The Register, April 20, 2009
"With the release of Ubuntu 9.04 - aka Jaunty Jackalope - Canonical has paired its Linux distro with Eucalyptus, an open-source software platform that mimics Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) inside your own data center.
And if you like, you can marry your private cloud with Amazon's public cloud by way of a so-called cloud management service from RightScale, also bundled with the Jackalope." Read the full article here.
The silver lining of cloud computing - Canada's Globe and Mail,
April 19, 2009
"Infrastructure as a service is good for those who know how to manage it, but the raw computing power these services offer is a bit like 1,000 labourers showing up on Saturday morning to fix up your garden,” argues Michael Crandell, chief executive and founder of Santa Barbara, Calif.-based RightScale Inc. "You need help managing them."" Read the full article here.
Dozens of corporations float to the Amazon cloud on RightScale - Betanews, April 14, 2009
"Big businesses are now moving to the clouds "en masse," through a deal between Capgemini and RightScale. The 50-or-so corporations are all clients of IT consulting firm Capgemini's emerging Cloud Computing Center of Excellence, said RightScale CEO Michael Crandell, in a briefing with Betanews.
After starting to migrate the customers' existing Web sites to "cloud-style, elastic-type applications and grids" in Amazon's EC2, Capgemini turned to RightScale's pre-configured templates for assistance." Read the full article here.
Cloud Expo: RightScale adds RackSpace, Eucalyptus to its 'hybrid clouds' - Betanews, April 2, 2009
"Already supporting Amazon EC2, GoGrid, and FlexiScale clouds, RightScale is now working on integrating RackSpace and Eucalyptus into its environment for managing hybrid clouds, said Thorsten von Eicken, the company's founder and CTO, in a meeting with Betanews at Cloud Computing Expo in New York City.
Available in free as well as other versions, RightScale's platform is aimed at organizations looking to administer private and public cloud spaces at the same time, acording to von Eicken." Read the full article here.
Vendors pump up cloud computing, but lock-in and other concerns persist - The Industry Standard, January 28, 2009
"Cloud computing is inexpensive, stressed Michael Crandell, CEO of RightScale, which offers cloud management for deploying mission-critical applications. He listed other drivers to the cloud as scalability and access to resources.
Barriers to cloud adoption include lock-in, security, service-level agreements, regulatory compliance, and loss of control of underlying infrastructure, Crandell said.
"On the obstacle side, lock-in, interestingly enough, is the No. 1 obstacle that we hear mentioned among customers and prospects that we speak with," said Crandell, adding that RightScale addresses obstacles to the cloud." Read the full article here.
Exclusive Cloud Computing Q&A with Michael Crandell, CEO of RightScale - Cloud Computing Journal, December 22, 2008
"We are in an ideal position to accelerate our business to continue our leadership in this rapidly advancing cloud market," says RightScale CEO Michael Crandell, in this Exclusive Q&A with the editor-in-chief of SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal, Alan Williamson. "We decided the timing was right to create a war chest that would take us to profitability," Crandell added. Earlier this month RightScale snagged $13M in a Series B round of venture funding. Read the full article here.
Disaster-Proofing The Cloud - Forbes, November 25, 2008
"RightScale has recently announced multi-cloud support for its system, which helps rapidly deploy and scale applications on cloud infrastructure. Multi-cloud support means that the configuration you use to define a one-cloud computing infrastructure, say Amazon Web Services, will not only set up a working system there, but also on Eucalyptus, Flexiscale and GoGrid as well. This provides a way out of a catastrophic failure of one of the cloud vendors. If you replicate the data stored in one cloud to another on a continuous basis, if one cloud fails, you can rapidly recreate the same infrastructure on the second cloud.
This is much better than an SLA in terms of reducing risk. As more cloud vendors expand their offerings, more and more of the cloud will become redundant. For example, Mosso, RackSpace's cloud computing division, just purchased JungleDisk, a consumer- and work group-oriented cloud storage service based on Amazon's S3. Mosso now intends to transform JungleDisk into a multi-cloud offering." Read the full article here.
Stormy weather: 7 gotchas in cloud computing - Computer World, November 3, 2008
"But rather than investing in in-house servers and staff, Jefferson turned to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, a Web service known as EC2 that provides resizable computing capacity in the cloud, and RightScale Inc., which provides system management for users of Web-based services such as EC2. With EC2, companies pay only for the server capacity they use, and they obtain and configure capacity over the Web." Read the full article here.
Windows, SQL Server on the Amazon Cloud - InternetNews.com,
October 23, 2008
"With the SLA, Amazon has answered the question enterprises have of whether they can run mission critical applications in production in the cloud," Thorsten von Eicken, chief technology officer and co-founder of Web-based cloud computing management platform provider RightScale told InternetNews.com." Read the full article here.
RightScale Eases Developing on Amazon EC2 - eWeek.com,
October 21, 2008
"The RightScale Platform, a configuration and management tool, makes it easier for developers to deploy and control servers and images on the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform. Developers can take advantage of Amazon.com's powerful cloud computing infrastructure and manage it from their laptops." Read the full article here.
TC3 Processes Millions Of Health-Care Claims In The Cloud - InformationWeek, October 17, 2008
"TC3 uses the software and services of a company called RightScale to monitor its systems in the cloud, and scale up and down based on the computing power it needs. Amazon reports the results of the processed claims back to a database at TC3. Business analysts then mine the data and develop reports from it that help insurance companies and others involved in health-care payouts detect fraud, manage out-of-network claims, and model predictions related to payouts." Read the full article here.
Cloud Computing Expo - RightScale Goes Multi-Cloud - Cloud Computing Journal, September 21, 2008
"Besides Amazon’s EC2, where its users reportedly have hundreds of thousands of instances running, RightScale widgetry now works on GoGrid and UK-based FlexiScale clouds too." Read the full article here.
20 Cloud Computing Startups You Should Know - InformationWeek, September 20, 2008
"'Imagine 4,000 people ready to work for you, but there's no foreman, no hierarchy, and no instructions,' says RightScale CEO and co-founder Michael Crandell. Cloud computing's scalability is meaningless unless businesses can manage the fluctuations, and many can't, he says." Read the full article here.
What You Need to Know About Cloud Computing - PC Magazine, September 11, 2008
"Administrating an infrastructure in the cloud is still a very complex task, so Animoto contracted with a company called RightScale for the programmatic management of its systems. RightScale is a platform-as-a-service provider, which means it provides a set of tools that simplify admin tasks. If a cloud infrastructure vendor provides the raw hardware, then think of RightScale as the Windows or OS X on top of that hardware, helping you use the underlying resources while also hiding a good deal of the complexity involved." Read the full article here.
Cloud Computing: Small Companies Take Flight - BusinessWeek.com, August 4, 2008
"'The trade-off is that the platform service is much more built out, so you lose some flexibility,' says Michael Crandell, CEO of RightScale, which provides management tools and consulting to companies that want to develop applications on Amazon Web Services like EC2. In contrast, developing for Amazon Web Services can be more complex, but developers can choose from a wider range of programming and scripting languages." Read the full article here.
Can the Cloud Handle Enterprise IT? - InternetNews.com, July 7, 2008
"Solutions to that problem do exist, from computer behemoth IBM (NYSE: IBM) and smaller players such as Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) as well as new companies like 3Tera, RightScale and GigaSpaces." Read the full article here.
Moving To The Cloud, Businesses Encounter Turbulence - InformationWeek, June 26, 2008
"Then there's management and integration. Consider one of the new services announced during the Structure08 conference: Cloud software provider RightScale introduced Manager for MySQL Enterprise, a product designed to enable organizations to effectively deploy MySQL databases in Amazon's EC2 Web services cloud." Read the full article here.
RightScale Announces Manager for MySQL Enterprise - GRIDtoday,
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." Read the full article here.
You Need 3,500 Servers by When?! - GRIDtoday, June 25, 2008
"Animoto ended up working with RightScale, a company that provides tools, expertise and automated technology to help companies run scalable applications on Amazon's cloud. "Even though we were a small company, we knew we might have to scale up like a very large company," Clifton says." Read the full article here.
Cloud Computing: So You Don’t Have to Stand Still - The New York Times, May 25, 2008
"Instead, they had already worked with RightScale, a cloud services firm in Santa Barbara, Calif., to design their application for Amazon’s cloud. That paid off during the three-day surge in growth, when Animoto did not buy or configure a single new server. It added capacity on Amazon, at the cost of about 10 cents a server per hour, as well as some marginal expenses for bandwidth, storage and some related services." Read the full article here.
RightScale gets boost from Benchmark, to offer cloud services - VentureBeat, April 24, 2008
"RightScale, the latest company to emerge offering “cloud” computing services, has raised $4.5 million in a first round of funding from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark Capital." Read the full article here.
Cloud Computing Startup Gets $4.5M Venture Funding - InformationWeek, April 24, 2008
"Large companies such as Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) aren't the only ones getting attention from the surge in interest around cloud computing. RightScale, a startup that offers developer tools for setting up server clusters that run on Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Web Services, secured $4.5 million in first-round venture capital funding from Benchmark Capital on Thursday." Read the full article here.
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