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RightScale Server Orchestration and Amazon SWF launch

Posted on February 22, 2012

The launch of Amazon’s SWF (see also Werner’s blog) is a good opportunity to talk about some of the exciting new automation features that we have in the works and we will make available with the coming releases. We’ve been using … Continue reading →

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Commercial Support for OpenStack on the Horizon

Posted on May 25, 2011

A change that was very palpable at the recent OpenStack conference is that a number of major industry players are readying commercial offerings around implementing OpenStack clouds. Today Citrix officially threw its hat into the ring announcing “Project Olympus” that … Continue reading →

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AWS outage follow-up: if you wanted details, you got details!

Posted on May 2, 2011

A week after the April 21st 2011 outage AWS posted a detailed post mortem explanation of what happened. It’ll be interesting to see how everyone digests the very detailed account. Since AWS did not provide an executive summary I’ll try … Continue reading →

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Amazon EC2 outage: summary and lessons learned

Posted on April 25, 2011

Last Thursday’s Amazon EC2 outage was the worst in cloud computing’s history. It made the front page of many news pages, including the New York Times, probably because many people were shocked by how many web sites and services rely … Continue reading →

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Zend publishes PHP PaaS on RightScale

Posted on April 19, 2011

It looks like 2011 is shaping up as the year of PaaS and the notion of what a PaaS is is starting to stretch out a bit. I used to think of PaaS as being what Heroku or Google App … Continue reading →

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Cloud Foundry Architecture and Auto-Scaling

Posted on April 14, 2011

Yesterday’s blog post mostly covered the benefits of VMware’s Cloud Foundry PaaS and how it fits with RightScale. Today I want to dive a little into the Cloud Foundry architecture and highlight how IaaS and PaaS really are complementary. I’m … Continue reading →

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Launch VMware’s CloudFoundry PaaS using RightScale

Posted on April 12, 2011

VMware’s Cloud Foundry release has the potential to be quite a watershed moment for the PaaS world. It provides many of the core pieces that are needed to build a PaaS in an open source form — VMware has put … Continue reading →

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ServerTemplates: The Key to RightScale Cloud Management

Posted on March 22, 2011

People often ask us what the biggest innovation is that RightScale offers beyond other forms of server management. The real answer is the integrated approach that puts together all the parts needed to architect multi-server deployments, launch them, monitor and … Continue reading →

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Cloud Japan: fastest growing cloud?

Posted on March 7, 2011

The pent-up demand for cloud computing in Japan seems to have grown almost exponentially in recent months. We have been working with Japanese customers and partners for years and now that a public cloud is available (the new EC2 Tokyo … Continue reading →

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RightScale Global — Next Stop: Japan

Posted on March 2, 2011

Amazon’s datacenter in Tokyo may have been one of the worst-kept secrets in cloud computing and finally it’s public! We’ve been operating there to support customers for a while and can now turn on our dashboard support for the EC2 … Continue reading →

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