Monthly Archives: February 2009

RightScale Ruby Cloud Gems released

Posted on February 24, 2009 by

We’ve just re-released all the Ruby gems (libraries) we use to interface to the various cloud providers. These gems are what we use in our RightScale platform in production, not some stripped-down version. They have performance optimizations and extensive error … Continue reading →

Posted in AWS, EC2, FlexiScale, RightAws, RightGrid, Ruby, S3, SQS | 14 Comments

The Skinny on Cloud Lock-in

Posted on February 19, 2009 by

The topic of cloud lock-in is getting quite some attention as of late, and it definitely needs to be a primary concern for anyone planning to move business critical applications to the cloud. (And who isn’t planning on that these … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | 19 Comments

RightScale supports Amazon EC2 Europe

Posted on February 12, 2009 by

Our platform now supports Amazon EC2 in Europe! Several of our customers have already noticed it and are running servers there using RightScale. This brings the cloud offering in Europe practically up to par with what’s available in the US. … Continue reading →

Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, EC2 | 1 Comment

Gartner prediction misses today’s enterprise cloud action

Posted on February 3, 2009 by

John Foley blogs about an interesting sounding Gartner report that gives cloud computing up to 2015 for “mainstream enterprise adoption”. He describes it as “a surprisingly conservative forecast for business adoption of cloud computing services”. I actually thought the time … Continue reading →

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