Cloud Management

Cloud computing is a disruptive set of changes that are transforming what IT can achieve, how IT is paid for, and how IT is delivered. On-demand, self-service provisioning provides rapid elasticity and enables right-sized infrastructure. Pay-as-you-go pricing reduces the need to spend big to buy and maintain infrastructure. IT is delivered as a service, making resources extensible and accessible anywhere. But to realize the opportunities of the cloud, you need cloud management that gives you the extreme efficiency, speed, and control to navigate and seize these opportunities.

The Cloud Isn’t a Silver Bullet

Whether your company was born in the cloud or is now incorporating cloud into overall IT strategy, achieving fully automated, transparent, and manageable cloud infrastructure can be elusive. Why? Because traditional IT issues still exist:

• Organization: Server, virtual machine, and image sprawl. Can you keep it all in context?
• Responsiveness: Lofty goals and SLAs. Is your IT innovating as fast as your business?
• Transparency: Usage tracking. Chargeback. Want to allocate based on use?
• Vendors: Lock-in. Integration. Have the freedom that you want?

Plus, there are new issues to resolve with cloud computing:

• Standards: Proliferating clouds. No one standard. Do your clouds talk to each other?
• Security: Life outside the firewall can be scary. Have the tools to secure yourself?
• IT leakage: Anyone can launch a server with a credit card. Are you ready?
• Resiliency: Clouds are built from ephemeral, commodity resources. They are built to fail. Is your application?

The RightScale Way to Do Cloud

There is a right way to do cloud. It takes planning. And done right, IT feats once thought impossible are now within reach of all. Want to launch 1,000 servers in an hour? Failover an application across the globe? Reduce latency for happier customers? Clone production environments for your QA team? Sleep soundly at night?

Here’s how:

• Make it modular. On-demand provisioning means on-demand configurations. Cloud configurations should be modular, bootstrapped, and contextually organized.
• Architect right. The cloud provides new, low-cost, ephemeral plumbing. Build your application architectures for scalability and fault tolerance.
• Preserve custom options. Because applications are diverse, you want to be able to optimize and have contingencies. Make sure your cloud solution gives you the customization and control you need.
• Automate everything. Make your cloud infrastructure application aware. Program it to self-heal and adapt to changing conditions.
• Achieve complete visibility. You can only manage what you can see. Choose a solution that can monitor and control all your accounts across all your clouds.
• Think multi-cloud. Whether it’s geographic expansion, disaster recovery, performance optimization, or vendor diversification, you’re going to need multiple clouds and providers. Make sure they can work seamlessly.

Why Cloud Management Makes Sense

RightScale Cloud Management provides a transparent "single pane of glass" view into your entire cloud infrastructure. You can conveniently access your private cloud and public cloud resource pools from one Dashboard. Here you can provision entire server deployments in minutes and then automate and govern them over their lifetimes. Everything is visible, organized, and controlled. And it works across public and private clouds.

With RightScale, managing 10 or 1,000 servers can be equally simple.

What Success Can Look Like

What do these best practices look like in the real world? Over the past five years, our customers have pushed the boundaries of what is possible in the cloud. Here’s just a glimpse of what our customers have achieved:

• Scale infrastructure by thousands of servers each day.
• Go from racked in your data center to cloud-ready in an hour.
• Manage several thousand servers with each administrator.
• Power applications that add some 10 million new users per week.
• Coordinate consistent development environments across the globe.
• Push code changes by the hour.
• Copy production environments in 10 minutes for testing by internal QA and by partners.

At RightScale, cloud computing is part of our DNA. We've developed a set of best practices over the five years and have incorporated them into everything we do — our product, our support, and our partner ecosystem. We give you the tools to operate your cloud infrastructure in ways you never thought possible.

Find cloud success with RightScale