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RightScale Announces Global Partnership to Support Tata Communications' InstaCompute Rollout

Tata Communications’ InstaCompute Customers to Leverage the RightScale Platform for Comprehensive Automation and Control of its Cloud Services

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.

David Wirt, Global Head of Managed Services and Senior Vice President at Tata Communications said, "The RightScale service brings fully automated functionality to InstaCompute, allowing customers to dynamically scale their use of IaaS up and down. Additionally, RightScale’s pre-configured Solution Packs and partner ecosystem decrease our customer’s development and time to market with pre-designed and ready-to-go ServerTemplates."

RightScale and Tata Communications will provide cloud services across multiple industries, with both companies providing deep expertise in the gaming and media/video encoding sectors. InstaCompute customers will have access to RightScale’s industry specific "Solution Packs" which are pre-configured best practice reference architectures used to smoothly deploy architectures in the cloud.

"Tata Communications has created a powerful cloud offering through InstaCompute with many unique capabillities and a truly international level of service. We look forward to the partnership, supporting their growing cloud services and global rollout," said Josh Fraser, RightScale VP of Business Development. "RightScale has been committed from the beginning to supporting all major cloud infrastructures and providing the highest caliber of management solutions for their customers."

About RightScale
RightScale is the leader in cloud computing management. Founded in 2006, the company offers a fully automated cloud management platform that enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business critical applications across multiple clouds with complete control and portability. The RightScale Cloud Management Platform is delivered as "software as a service" (SaaS) and is available in a range of editions. To date, thousands of deployments and more than two million servers have been launched on the RightScale platform for leading organizations such as PBS, Harvard University, Zynga and Sling Media. To learn more about RightScale, please go to http://www.RightScale.com.

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