Press Releases

RightScale 2013 State of the Cloud Survey Reveals a Cloud Value Imperative

SANTA BARBARA, CA – April 25, 2013 – RightScale® Inc., a leader in cloud management, today announced the results of its second annual State of the Cloud survey. The 2013 results showed broad adoption of cloud computing -- with enterprises now adopting at higher rates than smaller companies. Survey respondents continued to show a strong interest in multi-cloud strategies, with plans to evaluate and use a broad range of public and private cloud options. For the first time, RightScale categorized respondents based on a new Cloud Maturity Model. The Model uncovered a cloud value imperative: companies reported more benefits and fewer challenges with expanded adoption of cloud computing. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Supports Windows Azure Infrastructure Services General Availability

SANTA BARBARA, CA – April 16, 2013 – RightScale® Inc., a leader in cloud management, today announced enterprise support for Windows Azure in conjunction with the general availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure Services. Through the RightScale “Get Your App to Azure” program, RightScale empowers Windows Azure customers to accelerate application development in the cloud with the innovative RightScale multi-cloud management platform. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Infographic Shows Average of 7.5 Hours to Recover from Data Center and Cloud Outages

SANTA BARBARA, CA – February 27, 2013 – As enterprise cloud adoption grows, companies are increasingly using the cloud for revenue-producing applications. Keeping applications running during cloud outages becomes critical, and companies are leveraging cloud management to ensure their business-critical applications stay up and running, whether in public, private, or hybrid clouds. RightScale® Inc., the leader in cloud management, has created a new infographic that shows the significant impact of data center or cloud outages, showing 7.5 hours of average downtime per outage across clouds, private data centers and traditional hosting providers. Read the full press release here.

RightScale First to Resell Google Compute Engine

SANTA BARBARA, CA – February 26, 2013 – RightScale® Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced it’s the first partner to resell Google Compute Engine. RightScale integration of its cloud management platform with Google Compute Engine provides customers with comprehensive management and automation for the Google Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud. As a Google strategic partner and reseller, RightScale will also offer tailored onboarding packages through its professional services organization and world-class support for customers. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Reveals Impressive Growth in Cloud Management Adoption

SANTA BARBARA, CA – February 11, 2013 – The dramatic rise in cloud adoption in the past year has transformed the way businesses approach the cloud. Cloud use has moved from secret to strategic, with businesses of all sizes relying on the cloud for business-critical applications. As a result, RightScale® Inc., the leader in cloud management, today announced significant milestones that signal the critical role that cloud management plays in today’s cloud strategy. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Global Expansion Continues Into Australia

Sydney, Australia and Santa Barbara, CA – November 7, 2012 – RightScale® Inc, the leader in cloud computing management today announced their expansion into Australia. The entry into the Australian market will provide local sales, support and professional services for the RightScale cloud management platform. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Recommends Rackspace to Customers for OpenStack-powered Clouds

SANTA BARBARA, CA – November 5, 2012 – RightScale® Inc, and Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX), the open cloud company, today announced their entry into a strategic agreement to integrate RightScale cloud management with the Rackspace Open Cloud powered by OpenStack. As part of the agreement, RightScale will support Rackspace Open Cloud products with its leading cloud management platform. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Supports the OpenStack Foundation as a Corporate Sponsor

SANTA BARBARA, CA – November 5, 2012 – RightScale® Inc, the leader in cloud computing management, today announced they will be a Corporate Sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation. RightScale is one of the early pioneers in cloud computing and will bring its deep experience in cloud management to the OpenStack Foundation and community. Read the full press release here.

RightScale is the Cloud Management Platform of Choice for SaaS Companies

SANTA BARBARA, CA – October 25, 2012 – RightScale® Inc, the leader in cloud computing management, is helping software vendors accelerate the process of bringing software-as-a-service (SaaS) products to market. Over 100 SaaS providers, from enterprises to startups, rely on RightScale to deploy and manage single-tenant and multi-tenant SaaS applications for their customers in cloud environments. Read the full press release here.

RightScale “Cloud for the Holidays” Helps Organizations Scale to Meet Spikes in Holiday Demand

SANTA BARBARA, CA – September 27, 2012 – RightScale® Inc, the leader in cloud computing management, announced “Cloud for the Holidays,” a solution to help companies ensure that their online promotions, micro-sites, games or applications can scale to meet the peak demands of holiday traffic while avoiding the downtime that can mean lost sales. RightScale “Cloud for the Holidays” solution lets these companies leverage cloud infrastructure and the RightScale cloud management platform to automatically scale up or down to meet the huge shifts in customers demand during the holiday season. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Brings Enterprise-Level Control to Cloud Management

SANTA BARBARA, CA – September 24, 2012 – RightScale® Inc, the leader in cloud computing management, today unveiled a suite of features for the RightScale cloud management platform that provide users with new enterprise-grade controls for security, management and governance. As enterprise cloud adoption shifts from individual projects to a CIO-driven strategic initiative, organizations need better ways to manage their portfolio of cloud-based resources to meet their financial, governance and security requirements. RightScale’s new features deliver the added controls enterprises need to manage their cloud applications. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Recognized as Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum

SANTA BARBARA, CA – August 28, 2012 – RightScale® Inc, the leader in cloud computing management, has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a 2013 Technology Pioneer. Technology Pioneers represent the most innovative startup companies worldwide with the potential to transform the future of business and society. Previous Technology Pioneers have included trailblazing companies such as Google, Twitter and PayPal. RightScale was selected for its visionary leadership and proven technology that enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business-critical applications across public, private, and hybrid clouds. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Introduces Cloud Cost Forecasting with Launch of PlanForCloud

SANTA BARBARA, CA – July 18, 2012 – For companies planning cloud deployments, creating accurate cost models and forecasts across the ever-growing number of cloud providers and choices can be overwhelming. RightScale® Inc, the leader in cloud management, announced today that it has acquired Scotland-based ShopForCloud, a free cloud cost forecasting website, and rebranded it as PlanForCloud. This free website enables companies to better budget for cloud costs by giving them the tools required to model various architectures and usage patterns, access up-to-date pricing from a variety of cloud providers, and produce detailed cost reports in just a few minutes. Read the full press release here.

Logica and RightScale deliver hybrid cloud solution for enterprise customers with Windows Azure

TORONTO, Canada – July 11, 2012, Logica and RightScale have announced that they will provide inclusive hybrid cloud implementations running across Microsoft’s Windows Azure public cloud and private cloud estates. This environment will include RightScale cloud management technologies. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Announces Integration with Google Compute Engine

SANTA BARBARA, CA – June 28, 2012 – RightScale© Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced the integration of its cloud management solution with Google Compute Engine. RightScale is offering a private beta for customers to manage Google Compute Engine with RightScale cloud management. Customers in the private beta program will use RightScale to easily deploy workloads to Google Compute Engine using automation and dynamic configuration while retaining complete control and governance. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Survey Reveals Companies Choosing Multi-Cloud Approach

SANTA BARBARA, CA – June 13, 2012 – Companies of all sizes view cloud computing as a strategic business opportunity. With the increase in the number of cloud infrastructure providers, businesses are now able to choose from a variety of options to align their cloud strategy with their specific business needs. RightScale® Inc, the leader in cloud management, today announced results of a new market study of over 600 companies to uncover how businesses are approaching cloud computing and what priorities they set for implementing their cloud strategies. Read the full press release here.

Cloud Management Leader RightScale Supports Windows Azure

SANTA BARBARA, CA – June 6, 2012 – RightScale® Inc., a leader in cloud computing management, today announced support for Windows Azure for both Windows and Linux. RightScale is now running a private beta with Windows Azure as one of the public cloud choices available for management with RightScale. Customers in the private beta program will use RightScale to easily deploy workloads to Windows Azure using automation and dynamic configuration while retaining complete control and governance. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Drives Business Success in the Cloud; Hosts 6th Conference on June 13 in NYC

SANTA BARBARA, CA – May 16, 2012 – RightScale® Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced it is hosting the sixth RightScale Conference on June 13 in New York. From large enterprises to start-ups, companies today are looking to gain business agility and scale with cloud computing. Whether companies are developing or evolving their cloud strategies, they are looking to leverage public, private and hybrid clouds in their IT architecture. At the upcoming RightScale Conference, industry luminaries, cloud experts and customers will share their multi-cloud strategies as well as discuss best practices for achieving success in the cloud. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Announces Support for HP Cloud Services to Deliver Multi-Cloud Management for Enterprises

SANTA BARBARA, CA – May 10, 2012 – RightScale® Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced the company will offer HP Cloud Services as one of the public cloud choices available for management with RightScale. Read the full press release here.

SoftLayer and RightScale Partnership Speeds Customers’ Time to Market

DALLAS, Texas – April 24, 2012 – SoftLayer® Technologies, a leading provider of global cloud infrastructure, and RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, have partnered to provide unmatched scalability and automation solutions that allow internet-centric companies to speed their time to market. Companies such as social gaming developer Broken Bulb Game Studios are able to use SoftLayer’s public and private cloud infrastructure with RightScale cloud management to easily deploy, automate and manage their computing workloads across the globe. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Sees Multi-Cloud Use On The Rise

SANTA BARBARA, CA – March 27, 2012 – RightScale® Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that 87 percent of its customer cloud usage comes from customers using more than one cloud provider and cloud type. This confirms the growing trend to leverage multiple clouds ⎯ public, private and hybrid ⎯ to meet IT needs such as high availability, business continuity, disaster recovery, application performance and reduced cost. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Takes Cloud Expertise to SXSW

SANTA BARBARA, CA – March 8, 2012 – RightScale, the leader in cloud computing management, is taking its cloud knowledge to South by Southwest Interactive in Austin. The company will be participating in two discussions at the conference and is also hosting a cocktail party fit with an indie rock band and renowned graffiti artists. Read the full press release here.

RightScale and Equinix Partnership Delivers New Cloud Management Service for Private and Public Cloud Infrastructure

MIAMI, FL AND SANTA BARBARA, CA – February 28, 2012 – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, and RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced a strategic global partnership to deliver a complete cloud solution to the corporate IT and service provider markets. With this partnership, the RightScale Cloud Management Platform will provide Platform Equinix™ customers with a comprehensive management offering for all cloud infrastructure ― including public, private and multi-cloud/hybrid clouds —managed and controlled through a single cloud service. Read the full press release here.

RightScale and Logicworks Team to Deliver Highly Available and Compliant Cloud Solutions for Business Critical Applications

SANTA BARBARA, CA – December 14, 2011 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, and Logicworks, provider of complex managed hosting and cloud computing services for mission-critical applications and websites, today announced they have joined forces to deliver a powerful solution to help enterprises simplify and manage both their public and private cloud resources. By integrating the RightScale Cloud Management Platform with Logicworks’ InfiniCloud™ and PowerCluster private cloud infrastructures, the companies are meeting the needs of enterprises that require high availability and compliance standards when moving mission-critical applications to the cloud. Read the full press release here.

Year of the Cloud: RightScale Reveals Top Trends from 2011 and Looks Ahead to 2012

SANTA BARBARA, CA – December 13, 2011 – As 2011 winds down, it’s apparent that migrating business to the cloud reached a tipping point this year where it is no longer a trend, but has become an absolute business requirement. RightScale® Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, has first-hand experience with the growth of the cloud. In September, the company reached the milestone of launching more than three million servers since inception (a 50 percent increase since January) and in the last year has doubled the total compute power managed by the RightScale platform. Today the company unveiled key insights into the cloud and the business challenges that lie ahead for 2012. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Forms a Business Alliance with Yahoo! Japan and IDC Frontier to Deliver Management and Automation to NOAH Cloud

SANTA BARBARA, CA – November 9, 2011 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced it was selected as the cloud computing management provider for IDC Frontier (IDCF), a subsidiary of Yahoo! Japan Corporation that provides data center solutions to the Japanese market with its NOAH Cloud Services. RightScale has concluded a joint development and joint marketing agreement with Yahoo! Japan and IDCF. Customers will be able to leverage RightScale Cloud Management to deploy and manage workloads on the NOAH cloud for faster cloud deployment and comprehensive automation. Early this year, RightScale established operations in Japan. This latest announcement is another milestone illustrating RightScale’s continued commitment to the Japanese market. Read the full press release here.

SoftLayer and RightScale Team Up to Accelerate Deployment, Automation and Management of Workloads Across Cloud Infrastructures

DALLAS, Texas and SANTA BARBARA, CA – November 8, 2011 – SoftLayer® Technologies, the innovation leader in cloud, dedicated, and managed hosting solutions, and RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that the companies are developing the ability to manage and deploy SoftLayer cloud computing services through the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. Customers will be able to globally deploy, automate and manage their toughest computing workloads utilizing RightScale cloud management on SoftLayer’s public and private cloud infrastructure. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Announces Support for Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition

SANTA BARBARA, CA – November 7, 2011 – RightScale® Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced its selection as a Technology Partner for the Rackspace® Cloud: Private Edition, an OpenStack™-powered cloud backed by Rackspace managed services and support. RightScale’s participation further expands its partnership with Rackspace and extends its strategy of supporting multiple hybrid cloud solutions for the enterprise. RightScale Cloud Management is already available for the Rackspace Public Cloud and with this announcement, customers of the Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition can extend their use of RightScale as a single cloud management solution across all of their Rackspace cloud deployments – public, private and hybrid. Read the full press release here.

Leading Customers Deploy Production-Ready Hybrid Clouds with Eucalyptus and RightScale

SANTA BARBARA, CA – November 1, 2011 – Eucalyptus Systems, creators of the most widely deployed on-premise cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) software platform, and RightScale® Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that leading organizations InterContinental Hotels Group and Beijing UnGeo Information Technology Co., Ltd. have adopted RightScale myCloud and Eucalyptus for a “single pane of glass” to transform their IT infrastructures into fully managed private and hybrid clouds. The joint Eucalyptus and RightScale myCloud solution provides a fast path to launching a private or hybrid cloud with full-featured automation and management capabilities. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Customers Share Real World Cloud Experiences at Conference on November 9th

SANTA BARBARA, CA – October 25, 2011 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced the customer speakers that will present at the fifth RightScale Conference on November 9th in Santa Clara, California. The free day-long event will showcase a top-tier lineup of speakers that includes RightScale customers, RightScale Co-Founder and CEO Michael Crandell and RedMonk Analyst Group Co-Founder, Stephen O’Grady. Read the full press release here.

Companies Select RightScale Zend PHP Solution Pack for Fast Cloud Onboarding, On-demand Scalability and High Availability

SANTA BARBARA and CUPERTINO, Calif. – August 24, 2011 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, and its partner Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today announced customers that have chosen the RightScale Zend PHP Solution Pack. The RightScale Zend PHP Solution Pack is an Open Platform as a Service (Paas) offering, developed jointly to provide a pre-configured cloud platform for PHP application deployment and management that customers can run themselves. Leading companies including mediaspike, Dmedia Commerce, and VYou.com have chosen the solution as a means to solve multiple problems related to rapid scaling, simplified deployment, and high availability of applications. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Announces Winners of its Spring ServerTemplate Showdown

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – August 2, 2011 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today congratulated the winners of its Spring 2011 ServerTemplate™ Showdown. Integral R and D, So-net Entertainment Corporation and Practical IT Consulting (PITCON) took home the top three prizes and added innovative and useful ServerTemplates to the RightScale MultiCloud Marketplace. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Delivers Management Platform for Hybrid and Private Cloud Computing

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – June 7, 2011 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, announced today the launch of RightScale myCloud, a simple to set up, easy-to-use and cost-effective management platform for hybrid and private cloud computing. The free edition of RightScale myCloud gives organizations a powerful framework for testing and developing private cloud infrastructures with little financial or management risk. RightScale and its partners have created a simple and efficient method for organizations to leverage existing on-premise hardware to quickly build a private cloud infrastructure that can then be managed alongside public cloud resources with the RightScale Management Platform – creating automated, scalable hybrid clouds. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Announces MultiCloud Marketplace to Deliver Cloud-Ready Software Deployments

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – May 31, 2011 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced the launch of its MultiCloud Marketplace, a clearing house for ready-to-run, customizable software designed according to best practices for launching and managing servers in the cloud. Organizations and developers can leverage a broad collection of software solutions, provided by RightScale and software partners, ranging from end-user applications to middleware and components such as data stores, application and web servers, grid frameworks, and more. By using the MultiCloud Marketplace, companies can cut costs and reduce their time to market in building cloud deployments while maintaining the ability to customize them for their business needs and run them across multiple cloud environments – both public and private. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Announces Customers and Industry Analyst to Speak at Conference in New York

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – May 25, 2011 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced an impressive lineup of speakers for its fourth RightScale User Conference being held on June 8. The conference will feature RightScale CEO Michael Crandell and guest Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst Frank E. Gillett and will include presentations by several RightScale customers who will share best practices for architecting cloud infrastructures in today’s dynamic marketplace. The RightScale conference is co-located with the Cloud Computing Expo being held at the Javits Conference center in New York. Registration for the conference is open now—attendees of the RightScale Conference will also receive a complimentary full session pass to the Cloud Computing Expo. Read the full press release here.

RightScale and Zend Deliver an Open Platform as a Service (PaaS) for PHP to Launch and Manage Business-critical Web Applications in the Cloud

SANTA BARBARA and CUPERTINO, Calif. – April 19, 2011 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, and Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today announced a jointly-developed solution for deploying and managing business-critical PHP applications with high availability, elasticity and portability in the cloud. The new RightScale Zend PHP Solution Pack provides a pre-configured open Platform as a Service (PaaS) architecture for faster cloud onboarding while maintaining the ability to customize and control the cloud environment. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Announces Global Partnership to Support Tata Communications' InstaCompute Rollout

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. and SINGAPORE – March 22, 2011 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, announces a global partnership with Tata Communications, a leading global provider of a new world of communications and the InstaCompute cloud offering. Specifically tailored to meet the IT needs of growing businesses, InstaCompute is an innovative new cloud computing service which provides secure and elastic, on-demand computing and storage resources. InstaCompute customers will have access to RightScale’s fully automated management platform to easily deploy and manage their business critical applications with complete control and transparency. RightScale’s platform will also provide InstaCompute customers with a single platform for management of public and private clouds. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Customers Expand Cloud Workloads

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – March 22, 2011 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that RightScale customers have substantially expanded the use of cloud computing in their companies, with a rapid increase in the number and variety of RightScale ServerTemplates™ developed by users to meet the specific needs of their businesses. To date, customers have developed 42,500 cloud-ready RightScale ServerTemplates – which are customizable, reusable templates for automatically configuring and deploying servers across public and private clouds – representing double the number created by customers this time last year. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Expands Operations in Asia-Pacific with New Japanese Subsidiary

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. and TOKYO – March 07, 2011 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced the establishment of RightScale Japan, Inc., a wholly-owned Japanese subsidiary based in Tokyo. RightScale also announced that it is providing immediate support for the new Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure region in Japan, announced early last week, and the appointment of Yosuke Shindo as Sales and Business Development Director for Japan. Read the full press release here.

RightScale International Sales Increased 250 Percent in 2010

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – January 11, 2011 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that in 2010 the company's international sales grew by 250 percent over the previous year, with international customers now accounting for nearly 30 percent of overall sales. The company's international customer base and presence expanded significantly last year, with new RightScale offices opening in the United Kingdom and Singapore, and a number of major systems integrators and distributors focused on markets throughout Asia-Pacific, Europe and India joining RightScale's growing global ecosystem of partners. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Announces Private Cloud Early Access Program

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Nov. 1, 2010 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced the RightScale Private Cloud Early Access Program, designed to help companies explore building private clouds within their data centers. As part of this program, RightScale has created a private cloud reference architecture that supports deploying private clouds using the Cloud.com or Eucalyptus infrastructures. Program participants can leverage this reference architecture, along with RightScale’s proven cloud best practices, to begin developing their private and multi-cloud cloud computing strategies. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Launches Community Publishing on its Cloud Management Platform

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – October 14, 2010 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that the RightScale Cloud Management Platform now supports community publishing, enabling thousands of RightScale users to publish and share RightScale ServerTemplates and other cloud components. RightScale ServerTemplates are completely transparent, reusable, automated models for configuring cloud servers, providing a fast on-ramp to the cloud. Prior to this release, only RightScale and RightScale Partner Program participants could publish ServerTemplates. Through this new community publishing capability, RightScale users will benefit from a much broader array of pre-configured cloud solutions. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Launches New Solution Pack for Development and Testing in the Cloud

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – 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. The RightScale Development & Test Solution Pack supports four development languages: PHP, Java, Ruby and .NET, and it includes Java and PHP solutions from RightScale partners IBM and Zend Technologies. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Secures $25 Million in Funding

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – September 22, 2010 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, announced today it has closed a new round of venture funding led by Tenaya Capital and joined by DAG Ventures and other current investors – Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and Presidio Ventures. Fast-growing RightScale will use the $25 million in third-round financing to accelerate development of the RightScale Cloud Management Platform, drive the company’s global expansion and grow the ecosystem of third-party publishers. Read the full press release here.

NorthScale Teams with RightScale to Deliver Elastic Data Scaling in a Managed Cloud Environment

SANTA BARBARA and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – September 14, 2010 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, and NorthScale, the elastic data management software company, today announced the availability of NorthScale’s Membase NoSQL database technology within the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. Starting today, RightScale users can take advantage of NorthScale’s elastic data management software to cost-effectively and dynamically scale-out high-demand, elastic applications in a RightScale cloud management environment. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Extends its Cloud Management to Windows

SANTA BARBARA, CA – August 17, 2010 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that the RightScale Cloud Management Platform now supports Microsoft Windows-based applications running in the cloud.  Windows users can now take advantage of RightScale to simplify the complexities of deploying and managing applications in the cloud, using its ServerTemplate methodology and new Windows-specific features to meet common cloud computing needs such as dynamically configuring servers, managing software updates, implementing custom stacks, and operating across multiple clouds.  The addition of Windows to RightScale’s supported operating systems extends the company’s reach to the massive Windows community, which comprises a high percentage of enterprise organizations. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Customers' Cloud Usage Grows Over 1,000% in One Year

SANTA BARBARA, CA – August 4, 2010 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that its customers' use of cloud computing increased by over 1,000 percent in one year, from June, 2009 to June, 2010. This increase, which is based on spending by RightScale customers for cloud infrastructure, reflects three trends: an overall increase in the number of cloud servers launched by RightScale customers, cloud servers running for longer periods of time, and customers using larger servers. These changes are indicative of the growing use of cloud computing for production applications. Further underscoring industry momentum, RightScale also reports a significant increase in enterprise customers. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Opens its Management Platform to User-Developed Cloud Images

RIGHTSCALE USER MEETUP, NEW YORK – April 21, 2010 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today 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. Cloud machine images, such as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), are the most basic building blocks of cloud computing and are used to configure servers in the cloud. Now, in addition to accessing the collection of cloud images provided by RightScale, users can develop their own images or leverage other existing cloud images within RightScale's management platform to simplify deployment and automate management of applications running in the cloud. With this new capability, virtually any cloud server can be managed by RightScale's automated cloud management platform. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Extends its Cloud Management to Grid Computing on Amazon Web Services

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – April 14, 2010 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced the RightScale Grid Computing Solution Pack – a cloud management solution designed specifically for grid processing. The on-demand, virtually limitless compute resources of public cloud infrastructures such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) are ideal for grid computing applications, which typically involve large or complex tasks that require a massive amount of compute power. Available today, the RightScale Grid Computing Solution Pack helps organizations take advantage of the cloud for grid computing by removing the complexities of deploying, monitoring, and managing these specialized processes on the cloud. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Selected by AlwaysOn as a OnDemand Top 100 Winner

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. April 6, 2010 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnDemand Top 100 winners. Inclusion in the OnDemand 100 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. RightScale was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Selected as Preferred Cloud Management Platform by ProKarma

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. and PORTLAND, Ore. – March 30, 2010 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, and ProKarma, Inc., named the fastest-growing IT services company in America by Inc. Magazine, today announced that ProKarma has chosen RightScale as the preferred cloud management platform for its cloud computing practice. As part of a new partnership between the two companies, ProKarma will now utilize the RightScale Cloud Management Platform globally to help its clients simplify deployment and management of applications running on cloud infrastructures such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Read the full press release here.

RightScale Inks Reseller Deal with Hitachi Systems & Services

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – March 30, 2010 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd to distribute and support the RightScale Cloud Management Platform in Japan. Starting April 1, Hitachi Systems & Services will promote, sell and provide a range of professional services for RightScale as part of Hitachi Systems’ complete solutions for public and hybrid cloud computing. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Launches One Million Servers in the Cloud

CLOUD CONNECT, SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 17, 2010 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that it has launched over one million servers on the cloud through The RightScale Cloud Management Platform. "Pure-play" cloud computing vendor RightScale has been helping companies launch and automatically manage servers on the cloud for over three years. RightScale customers today include companies of all sizes across a wide range of industries – from Zynga, the world’s largest social gaming company, to entertainment conglomerate Sony Music. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Boosts Enterprise Capabilities in its Leading Cloud Management Platform

CLOUD CONNECT, SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 17, 2010 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that it has added new enterprise features to the RightScale Cloud Management Platform to provide better authorization and permissioning control, cost-tracking, and overall management of running virtual servers in the cloud across large organizations with multiple users, departments and projects. In combination with RightScale’s core cloud management functionality, these new features support the creation of IT self-service and execution of corporate governance strategies in the cloud that match internal IT policies. Read the full press release here.

Top Three Social Gaming Companies Manage Steep Growth on the Cloud with RightScale

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Feb. 17, 2010 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that the top three social gaming companies – Zynga, Crowdstar and Playfish¹ – all rely on the RightScale Cloud Management Platform to launch, manage and grow massively popular Internet-based games on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) infrastructure. As a result, eight of the 12 most popular games on the Web today – with a total of over 77 million daily active users² – run on RightScale, including FarmVille, Café World, Mafia Wars, FishVille, Happy Aquarium, Pet Society, PetVille, and Restaurant City. Read the full press release here.

Alfresco and RightScale Partner to Enhance Content Management in the Cloud

LONDON, UK and SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – December 16, 2009 – Alfresco Software, Inc., the leader in open source enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, and RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced the availability of a joint solution that speeds deployment time and automates scaling of Alfresco software in the cloud. Utilizing RightScale’s software-as-a-service (SAAS) cloud management platform, it is now even easier for content management software (CMS) users to implement, manage and scale Alfresco’s open source ECM solution in the cloud. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Announces Planned Support for Windows Azure Platform

MICROSOFT PDC09, LOS ANGELES – November 17, 2009 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced planned support for the Windows Azure platform. This support will enable customers to deploy RightScale-managed applications to Windows Azure and take advantage of the unique properties offered by the Windows Azure platform. RightScale’s intent to support Windows Azure underscores its commitment to providing customers with a wide range of cloud infrastructures for maximum flexibility and portability in their cloud deployments. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Sets New Bar for Application Portability in the Cloud

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – November 2, 2009 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today launched the next generation of its RightScale Cloud Management Platform that delivers increased application portability across cloud infrastructures. With this release, RightScale has enhanced its ServerTemplate technology to provide automatic configuration of servers for different clouds, system architectures and operating systems. The new portable ServerTemplates enable users to take advantage of the specific features and functionality offered by each cloud provider, including Amazon and Rackspace, while retaining complete portability. Read the full press release here.

The RightScale Cloud Management Platform Now Supports Zend Server

ZENDCON 2009, SAN JOSE, Calif. – October 20, 2009 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that the RightScale Cloud Management Platform now includes support for Zend Server and Zend Server Community Edition (CE), Zend’s PHP Web application server solutions. System administrators can now quickly deploy Zend Server or Zend Server CE applications on a cloud – or across multiple clouds – and easily manage them through RightScale’s easy-to-use and automated platform. RightScale users can benefit from the enterprise-grade production environment delivered by Zend Server or the easy, all-in-one Zend Server CE. Read the full press release here.

WaveMaker and RightScale Partner to Deliver One-Click Deployment of Web Apps in the Cloud

SAN FRANCISCO and SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – September 15, 2009 – WaveMaker&trade Software, provider of the only Open-source Platform as a Service, and RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that the two companies have partnered to provide technology integration between the RightScale Cloud Management Platform and WaveMaker’s open-source visual development platform. The joint solution will enable customers to easily deploy and manage applications developed with WaveMaker’s visual drag-and-drop software on the cloud through the automated RightScale platform. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Adds VMware vCloud™ Express to Arsenal of Supported Clouds

VMWORLD 2009, SAN FRANCISCO – Sept. 1, 2009 – RightScale®, Inc., a leader in cloud computing management, unveiled a technology preview of the RightScale Cloud Management Platform’s support for the VMware vCloud™ Express service at VMworld 2009 today. With RightScale and the VMware vCloud ecosystem, developers and VMware customers will be able to quickly deploy to and easily manage across multiple clouds through one consistent, easy-to-use platform. By leveraging the VMware vCloud API, RightScale’s integration with VMware vCloud Express underscores its commitment to supporting a wide range of cloud infrastructures to give RightScale users maximum flexibility and portability in their cloud deployments. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Joins Forces with Jaspersoft, Talend and Vertica to Deliver Complete Business Intelligence on the Cloud

CloudWorld Expo, August 12, 2009 – Leading providers of business and infrastructure software today announced the availability of a joint solution stack that delivers complete Business Intelligence (BI) on the cloud. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Cloud Management Platform First to Support New IBM DB2 Software

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – July 22, 2009 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that the RightScale Cloud Management Platform is the first solution that lets users create, manage and automate IBM DB2 Express-C 9.7 database software on the cloud. Now, RightScale users can more easily build, test and deploy applications on leading clouds such as Amazon EC2 using the most advanced version of IBM DB2 directly from the RightScale platform. Read the full press release here.

SpringSource Hyperic HQ Now Available on the RightScale Cloud Computing Management Platform

SANTA BARBARA and SAN MATEO Calif. – June 23, 2009 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, and SpringSource Hyperic, the leading provider of web application performance monitoring and management software, today announced that SpringSource Hyperic HQ, the company’s award-winning application and infrastructure management software, is now available through the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. Starting today, organizations can use SpringSource Hyperic HQ directly from the fully automated RightScale Platform to monitor the availability and further manage the performance of their cloud applications. Read the full press release here.

Former MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos Joins RightScale Board of Directors

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – May 28, 2009 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that Mårten Mickos, former CEO of MySQL, has joined its board of directors. Mickos brings extensive knowledge and experience in high growth startups from his role at MySQL, where he guided MySQL’s successful commercial open source business through to its acquisition by Sun Microsystems in 2008. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Named to InformationWeek Startup 50

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – May 8, 2009 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that it has been named to the first annual listing of the InformationWeek Startup 50, as revealed in InformationWeek Magazine and on InformationWeek.com. Read the full press release here.

RightScale to Extend Cloud Management to Private and Hybrid Clouds

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – April 20, 2009 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that the popular RightScale Cloud Management Platform will support the global debut of the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (powered by Eucalyptus) to help enterprises deploy and manage “private” clouds in their own data centers. Organizations that install the just-announced “technology preview” release of Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, which is released as part of the Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition, will be able to create Eucalyptus-based private clouds on their internal IT infrastructure and can then choose to register them with the RightScale Cloud Management Platform’s Free Edition, at no charge. For the first time, enterprises will be able to leverage the power of RightScale’s Web-based cloud management platform internally, enabling them to begin to experience the power of cloud management for server and storage resources in their own data center, as well as for “hybrid” cloud deployments, which use public and private clouds together. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Named "Cool Vendor"

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – April 16, 2009 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT), the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, has named RightScale a "cool vendor" in the recent Gartner report titled, "Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing Management and Professional Services." The Gartner report is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Selected as Preferred Cloud Management Platform by Capgemini

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – April 7, 2009 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that Capgemini US LLC (“Capgemini”), one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, has chosen RightScale as the preferred cloud management platform for the Capgemini Cloud Computing Center of Excellence. As part of a new partnership agreement signed between the two companies, Capgemini will now utilize the RightScale Cloud Management Platform globally to help its enterprise clients simplify deployment and management of cloud applications running on Amazon Web Services (“AWS”). Read the full press release here.

RightScale Adds Full Support for Ubuntu Server to its Cloud Management Platform

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – March 12, 2009 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced full support for the popular Ubuntu distribution as part of the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. The Ubuntu software development community can now use RightScale to easily deploy and manage cloud applications on cloud infrastructures such as Amazon EC2 with complete control and portability. Read the full press release here.

RightScale's New Education Program Promotes Research and Innovation Through Cloud Computing

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – March 3, 2009 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today launched the RightScale Education Program, a new program that provides qualified educational institutions with the RightScale Cloud Management Platform free of charge to foster research and innovation. With RightScale's platform and services, any university or educational laboratory can now tap the enormous power of cloud computing for a virtually infinite, cost-effective, pay-as-you-go IT infrastructure. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Adds Amazon EC2 Europe to List of Supported Clouds

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – February 12, 2009 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that it has added the new Amazon EC2 Europe cloud infrastructure to the growing list of clouds supported by the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. Announced in December, Amazon EC2 now provides European businesses the option to run their EC2 applications on a local cloud. Amazon Web Services global and European Amazon EC2 customers now have access to RightScale's automated cloud management platform to manage and scale cloud deployments as well as facilitate application migration and management across U.S. and EU clouds. Read the full press release here.

RightScale and New Relic Deliver Rails Performance Management in the Cloud

SANTA BARBARA and SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – February 4, 2009 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management and New Relic, the leading provider of Ruby on Rails application performance management solutions, today announced the integration of the RightScale Cloud Computing Management Platform with New Relic's RPM™ Rails application performance management software. Starting today, RightScale users can tap New Relic RPM to quickly and cost effectively detect, diagnose, and fix performance problems with their Rails applications running on the cloud. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Joins Splunk Powered Associate Program

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – January 22, 2009 – RightScale, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that it has integrated Splunk IT Search technology with the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. RightScale also announced that it is a founding member of the new Splunk Powered Associate partner program. With Splunk's powerful, high-speed IT Search technology integrated directly into RightScale’s popular platform, users can aggregate and analyze IT data to improve operations, thwart security issues, comply with regulatory requirements and mine for business analytics. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Secures $13 Million in Venture Funding

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – December 8, 2008 – RightScale, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that it has secured $13 million in its second round of venture capital funding, led by Index Ventures. Current investor Benchmark Capital, which led RightScale's first round of venture financing, also participated in this round. In addition, RightScale announced that Index Ventures partner Danny Rimer has joined the company's board of directors. RightScale will use the proceeds to accelerate product and market development of its cloud computing management platform to meet growing demand, including support for new clouds and expansion into additional geographic markets. Read the full press release here.

RightScale CTO and Founder to Present at Cloud Computing Expo

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – November 17, 2008 – RightScale, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that Thorsten von Eicken, the company's CTO and founder, will present at the Cloud Computing Expo, to be held November 19-21 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif. Mr. von Eicken will leverage his unique experience as CTO of the leading cloud management vendor, which has enabled thousands of production deployments, to address key concepts behind deploying on the cloud as well as the risks and rewards of cloud computing for the enterprise. Read the full press release here.

RightScale and the Eucalyptus Team Join Forces to Deliver Easy-to-Manage Open Source Cloud Computing

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – November 4, 2008 – RightScale, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, announced that it has partnered with the Eucalyptus Project Team at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to foster cloud computing research, experimentation and adoption. Starting today, the RightScale cloud computing management platform is available for use with the Eucalyptus Public Cloud (EPC), a cluster of servers at UCSB for testing and evaluating the Eucalyptus cloud infrastructure. RightScale and the Eucalyptus Project Team are also collaborating to deliver a more robust private cloud for organizations whose testing requirements extend beyond those offered by the EPC. The RightScale-Eucalyptus partnership is aimed at making cloud computing simple and accessible to everyone from universities, students and entrepreneurs to enterprises evaluating large cloud deployments. Read the full press release here.

RightScale First to Deliver Integrated Management for Cloud Environments

NEW YORK, NY – Sept. 17, 2008 – RightScale Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced a major new strategic product and partnership initiative as it broadens its cloud management platform to support emerging clouds from new vendors, including FlexiScale, and GoGrid, while continuing its long-standing support for Amazon's EC2. RightScale is also working with Rackspace to assure compatibility with their cloud offerings, including Mosso and CloudFS. RightScale will be the first in the industry to offer an integrated management dashboard, where applications can be deployed once and managed across these and other clouds. Read the full press release here.

RightScale and GoGrid Partner to Deliver Multi-Cloud Management, Windows-based Cloud Solution for the Enterprise

NEW YORK, NY – Sept. 17, 2008 – As part of its industry-leading cloud computing product and partner initiative, RightScale Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced a partnership with GoGrid, a next-generation cloud infrastructure provider that specializes in load balanced cloud servers and complex hosted virtual server networks. The two companies will work together developing product and service offerings for organizations that want to take advantage of the two companies’ products and expertise: GoGrid’s expansive cloud infrastructure where it hosts critical business applications in a highly scalable, secure, fault tolerant environment, and RightScale for its best-in-class automated cloud management platform and services. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Extends its Multi-Cloud Management Strategy Through New Partnership with UK Vendor FlexiScale

NEW YORK, NY – Sept. 17, 2008 – RightScale Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced a partnership with FlexiScale, the UK-based public cloud infrastructure provider. The alliance with FlexiScale, which represents RightScale’s first European-based cloud partner, will make it easy for businesses of any size to utilize the power and scalability of cloud computing using RightScale's industry-leading cloud management platform, tools and expertise in FlexiScale's cloud environment. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Delivers Full Support for Amazon's Elastic Block Store in the Cloud

SANTA BARBARA, CA – Aug. 21, 2008 – RightScale Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced full support for Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Elastic Block Store (EBS) cloud storage solution, providing immediate benefits of a virtually limitless storage area network for all RightScale users, directly from the RightScale Dashboard. Read the full press release here.

BitRock and RightScale Enable Application Deployment on Amazon’s EC2

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – July 30, 2008 – BitRock Inc., the leading provider of tools and services for deploying open source applications, and RightScale, the leader in cloud computing management, announced today a partnership to provide one-click deployments of popular open source applications on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Users of RightScale’s cloud computing management system can now select from a menu of applications, such as Drupal, Joomla!, Wordpress, and MediaWiki, and launch them in an instant to EC2. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Selected by AlwaysOn as an AO Global 250 Winner

SANTA BARBARA, CA – July 23, 2008 – RightScale Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AO Global 250 Winners. Inclusion in the AO Global 250 signifies major developments in the creation of new business opportunities in global technology industries. RightScale was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts spanning the globe, based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz. Read the full press release here.

RightScale Partners with EnterpriseDB for Powerful Cloud Management and Open Source Database for the Enterprise

SANTA BARBARA, CA – July 22, 2008 – RightScale Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced a partnership with EnterpriseDB, the leading provider of enterprise-class products and services based on PostgreSQL databases. The partnership will allow RightScale to integrate EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus and Postgres Plus Advanced Server database templates with its cloud management platform for extremely scalable, high performance database applications for Amazon Web Services customers. Read the full press release here.

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. Read the full press release here.

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. Read the full press release here.

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. Read the full press release here.

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. Read the full press release here.

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.” Read the full press release here.

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. Read the full press release here.