Jarrett Appleby, COO for CoreSite, provided a different perspective than the usual view of the cloud at last month’s RightScale Compute conference. CoreSite is in the data center business, and Appleby said that from there, you get to see IT trends from the inside out. (For more on recent IT trends, check out the RightScale State of the Cloud Report 2013, which includes data and analysis on cloud adoption by enterprises in a dozen industries.)
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CoreSite Sees the Data Center as the On-Ramp to the Cloud
HA/DR and Fault Tolerance with AWS and RightScale
In a session at RightScale Compute last month, Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Miles Ward talked about architecting in high availability and fault tolerance using AWS and RightScale. He noted that fault tolerance can result from faults in facilities, hardware, networking, code, and people, and defined fault tolerance as the ability of a system to continue operating properly, though perhaps at a degraded level, if one or more components fail. But fault tolerance has to be automated, and that automation has to be tested, so you know to what extent and under what conditions you really are fault tolerant.
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The Resumator Turns to AWS and RightScale to Manage Its SaaS Platform
The cloud provides organizations with scalable resources on demand, but how does a company leverage the cloud to handle explosive growth? That was the issue facing The Resumator, which offers a cloud-based SaaS platform for collecting resumes and managing organizations’ hiring processes. In 2011 the company migrated its infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and chose RightScale cloud management. Within a year, due in part to both the Obama and Romney campaigns’ tapping the company to manage their hiring, business exploded. Since last fall the company has handled more than 1.1 million resumes. With such rapid growth, The Resumator’s challenge has been to stay a step ahead of its customers’ demands.
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An Introduction to the Google Cloud Platform from an Insider
At RightScale Compute last month, Evan Anderson, a technical lead on the Google Compute Engine (GCE) team, gave an introduction to the Google Cloud Platform, the company’s flagship cloud computing offering, and talked about how the RightScale cloud management platform complements GCE’s functionality.
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Don’t Leave Your Apps Stranded
If you travel enough, it’s only a matter of time. You’re facing a tight connection and when your first leg gets delayed it only gets tighter. Then you’re sprinting to your connecting gate, only to watch as they close the doors and push back from the gate without you.
On my way back from OpenStack Summit 2013 in Portland, where I spoke on Techniques for Managing your OpenStack Cloud, I had this exact experience. I knew it instantly — I was stranded. Of course, I’d missed flights in the past, I’d been delayed, you name it. But this time the flight I missed was the last one out for the night, with no other connecting flights to anywhere close to my destination.
My first reaction was “the infrastructure failed me.” I had done everything right, from booking my tickets to arriving on time and making it through security. Unfortunately that wasn’t enough, since forces beyond my control impeded my ability to travel successfully.
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RightScale State of the Cloud 2013: A Look Ahead
I’ve already introduced our RightScale State of the Cloud 2013 industry survey and talked about how the results show that the greater the level of maturity an organization has with cloud, the more benefits it gets from it. Another interesting finding is the link between DevOps and the cloud.
RightScale State of the Cloud 2013: Maturity Matters
Last week we introduced our RightScale State of the Cloud 2013 industry survey, a comprehensive report based on responses from 625 industry professionals. Today we’ll dive into more details of the survey findings and show how they indicate that the greater the level of maturity organizations have with cloud, the more benefits they get from it.
RightScale Compute 2013: Day Two
The first day of the RightScale Compute 2013 conference was packed with information, but one day wasn’t enough time for us to share all the information we brought about cloud strategies and futures. Two days wasn’t enough either, but that’s all we booked the conference center for. Here’s a rundown of Friday’s Day Two.
RightScale Compute 2013: Day One
Yesterday was the first day of RightScale Compute 2013, our annual conference in San Francisco. (You can also read about Day Two.) The day kicked off with a keynote address by James Staten, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester, and a State of the Cloud report by RightScale CEO Michael Crandell (watch the video). Richard Kaufmann, vice president of Samsung SDS America, followed with a talk on how his organization uses RightScale to manage global cloud applications. The middle of the day was devoted to breakout sessions in four topic areas: Configuration Management, Cloud Architectures, Develop Your Cloud Strategy, and Tour de Clouds. The day closed with two panels on the future of the cloud — the first on applications in the cloud, the second on IT organizations.
RightScale State of the Cloud 2013: A New Industry Survey
Last month RightScale surveyed technical professionals across a broad cross-section of organizations about their adoption of cloud computing. The 625 respondents range from technical executives to practitioners, and represent organizations of varying sizes across many industries. Their answers to our survey questions provide a comprehensive perspective on the state of the cloud today.
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