Author Archives: Darryl Eaton

About Darryl Eaton

Director of Product Management at RightScale | What my friends call me: Darrolio, or Double Barrel | Website I visit the most: Google Apps | People are surprised to hear that: I played the Carillon, the largest and loudest instrument in the world. | Favorite expression: "A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." - Lao Tzu | I never go anywhere without my: iPhone, what else?

How Much Does Your Cloud Cost?

Posted on August 15, 2012

One of the earliest features we added to RightScale was cloud cost tracking and monthly projections. Instance usage reporting quickly became one of the most appreciated features by our customers (and their finance departments). Over time we’ve added more cost-tracking … Continue reading →

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Managing Cloud At Scale: Configure Systems not Servers

Posted on March 6, 2012

RightScale works with customers that manage some of the world’s largest public and private cloud deployments –understanding their needs to manage at scale is what drives the development of many our automation features. These valuable features don’t necessarily make it … Continue reading →

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Why Do-It-Yourself Cloud Computing Management Is a Temporary Fad

Posted on January 9, 2012

I recently called up my buddy who used to be vice president of marketing at SugarCRM. I asked him if he ever encountered companies that were building their own CRM solutions internally. “No, that’s dumb,” he said. “That’s why they … Continue reading →

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RightScale Release: New MultiCloud API, New Add Server Assistant, and Community Translations

Posted on August 25, 2011

This is the first of three posts you’ll be seeing regarding everything we’re releasing over the next couple of weeks. First, we had a new dashboard release tonight, which I’ll tell you about below. Next week, we’re releasing some sophisticated … Continue reading →

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RightScale Release: Rackspace Linux ServerTemplate Support, Windows 2008R2, PostgreSQL 9

Posted on June 14, 2011

When a systems or software engineer is learning a new language, a plethora of examples to learn from is invaluable. The cloud currently feels like a new software language to many – new constructs, better tools, rewritten rules. RightScale has … Continue reading →

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See you at the RightScale User Conference in NYC on June 8th

Posted on May 23, 2011

As the cloud computing landscape continues to rapidly evolve, RightScale is committed to helping you take advantage of the latest developments. These developments come from RightScale directly, our technology partners and from you – our customers.  Because cloud computing is … Continue reading →

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RightScale Dashboard Release: Japanese, More Widgets, and -your idea here-

Posted on May 5, 2011

The RightScale customer community is growing rapidly and we always appreciate your feedback and support. We’re bringing RightScale users together for our 4th RightScale User Conference in New York in June. Customers are flying in from all over the world … Continue reading →

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RightScale-Ready Ubuntu 11.04 Amazon AMIs

Posted on April 29, 2011

Ubunutu 11.04 Natty Narwhal is released, and there’s something in it for RightScale users! We’ve been working with our partners at Canonical to make it possible to use Ubuntu AMIs out of the box with RightScale. This means you can … Continue reading →

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RightScale Release: 25 ServerTemplates across 66 RightImages

Posted on March 29, 2011

Is it Christmas? It seems the RightScale elves have been very busy. Luckily for you, many of our elves have PhDs or masters degrees in Computer Science… or just many years behind a unix prompt. Lucky for us, they don’t … Continue reading →

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