Author Archives: Lee Schlesinger
CoreSite Sees the Data Center as the On-Ramp to the Cloud
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 … Continue reading
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, … Continue reading
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Tagged AWS, High Availability, RightScale, User Conference
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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’ … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Cloud Computing, Google Compute Engine, User Conference
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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 … Continue reading
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, … Continue reading
A Cloud Beginner Manages OpenStack with RightScale
OpenStack.org blogger Victoria Martínez de la Cruz recently tested RightScale as a solution for managing her OpenStack development environment. We asked Victoria to share her experience. Last year I began working as a feature developer for OpenStack, the open source … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Management
How to Replace the Cloud: No Fooling
It’s April Fools’ Day, and alas, we don’t have a plausible tale about how we’ve managed to harness neutrinos to create warp-speed inter-cloud communications, or a clever new technique that uses recursive virtualization to run an entire cloud on a … Continue reading
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CloudStack Graduates to Top-Level Apache Status
It’s a little early in the year for “Pomp and Circumstance,” but don’t tell that to CloudStack. The open source IaaS platform this week graduated from an incubation project to a top-level project within the Apache Software Foundation. The project … Continue reading
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Tagged CloudStack
Installing RightScale and Rackspace Private Cloud – in a Garage
RightScale’s Ryan Geyer, one of our cloud solutions engineers, likes to keep on top of the latest cloud technologies. While some people spend their weekends building model airplanes or puttering in their yards, Ryan likes playing with private clouds, and … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, OpenStack, Rackspace
Tagged Cloud Computing, Openstack, Rackspace
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