Author Archives: Kim Weins

RightScale State of the Cloud 2013: A Look Ahead

Posted on May 3, 2013

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 … Continue reading →

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RightScale State of the Cloud 2013: Maturity Matters

Posted on May 1, 2013

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 … Continue reading →

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RightScale State of the Cloud 2013: A New Industry Survey

Posted on April 25, 2013

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 … Continue reading →

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Analyzing Cloud Price Changes: How They Affect Your Bottom Line

Posted on March 27, 2013

Cloud pricing is growing more complex each month. As cloud IaaS vendors change prices and introduce new services, cloud users are finding it increasingly difficult to project their cloud costs.  PlanForCloud, a free cloud cost forecasting tool from RightScale, includes … Continue reading →

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Join Us for RightScale Compute 2013

Posted on February 4, 2013

If your organization is leveraging or investigating cloud computing, congratulations! You are at the leading edge of the most important ongoing paradigm shift in enterprise IT. The easiest way to get up to speed is by attending the RightScale Compute … Continue reading →

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Forecast Cloud Costs with PlanForCloud

Posted on July 18, 2012

Today we announced that RightScale acquired Scotland-based ShopForCloud, a free cloud cost forecasting website, and renamed it PlanForCloud. The website makes it easy to budget for your future cloud costs by giving you a set of tools to model your … Continue reading →

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RightScale Conference: Talk to the Experts About Cloud

Posted on May 16, 2012

Cloud is here and cloud is now. RightScale has led the way in cloud management, with more than 4 million servers launched in the cloud to date. We know that cloud is a strategy, not just a tactical solution. It’s … Continue reading →

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