Monthly Archives: April 2008

RightScale featured on Mashable [podcast]

Posted on April 30, 2008 by

Hear our CEO, Michael Crandell in a featured interview with Mark Hopkins on his show, “Mashable Conversations.” Michael gives a great overview of cloud computing and explains the growing interest among start-ups, mid-size, and even enterprise level businesses. The interview … Continue reading →

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Tracking changes to your deployment

Posted on April 30, 2008 by

I’m sure you’ve had this experience: your site worked great yesterday, and now it’s acting up. Something’s clearly broken. “Who changed what when !?!?” [expletive deleted] Of course many of our users have turned to us for help in those … Continue reading →

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Animoto’s Facebook scale-up

Posted on April 23, 2008 by

The Animoto guys did hit the jackpot on Facebook this past week. Jeff Barr mentioned a few of the stats on his blog: Animoto ramped from 25,000 users to 250,000 users in three days, signing up 20,000 new users per … Continue reading →

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Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes

Posted on April 13, 2008 by

The Amazon folks have gone public today with the next EC2 feature: persistent storage. The official information is found in Jeff Barr’s blog entry and in Matt’s forum post. Calling the persistent storage a “feature” is actually quite an understatement, … Continue reading →

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Meet RightScale at the MySQL conference

Posted on April 13, 2008 by

We’ll be at the MySQL conference in the expo hall April 15-17, please drop by so we can show you our Manager for MySQL. We’d also be happy to talk about all the new Amazon Web Services and RightScale features!

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How EC2 changes the game in batch grid computing

Posted on April 5, 2008 by

We’ve been receiving a fair number of inquiries about our RightGrid batch processing framework recently. RightGrid was designed to simplify the task of processing large numbers of jobs enqueued in Amazon SQS with the data to be processed residing in … Continue reading →

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RightScale supports Amazon’s new Simple Queue Service interface

Posted on April 5, 2008 by

For a few weeks now we’ve been supporting the new programming interface for Amazon’s Simple Queue Service. The new interface comes with better pricing, especially for high volume users that enqueue thousands of messages. See Amazon’s site for details on … Continue reading →

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RightAws release 1.7.0, including ActiveSDB alpha

Posted on April 1, 2008 by

We released a new version of our Ruby library gem for accessing AWS Services, including EC2, S3, SQS, and SDB: RightAws 1.7.0 is now available off rubyforge.  This version includes enhancements of the EC2 interface to support Elastic IP addresses, … Continue reading →

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