Press Releases

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.