Author Archives: Thorsten

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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RightScale Dashboard Release: Have It Your Way with Widgets

Posted on February 25, 2011

We’ve successfully completed the first release of the RightScale Dashboard for 2011. This release includes our answer to a few common problems or requests we’ve heard recently… let’s walk through them. One of the more common requests that we hear … Continue reading →

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Cluster monitoring with stacked graphs and heat maps

Posted on November 3, 2010

Just in time to demo at the RightScale User Conference, we started a private beta of two new cluster monitoring features: stacked graphs and heat maps. We’ve been using them for a while internally and they’ve been invaluable to quickly … Continue reading →

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RightScale ServerTemplate Showdown

Posted on October 7, 2010

Package your favorite software as a ServerTemplate or simply contribute your best ServerTemplate to the cloud community to demonstrate your expertise and win an iPad! Having recently introduced publishing to our full user base we’re now having a contest to … Continue reading →

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NorthScale publishes Memcache Server Template, you can publish too!

Posted on September 14, 2010

With last week’s release we relatively quietly threw a big switch, which allows all RightScale users to publish their own ServerTemplates to the RightScale community via our component library. This means that you can now publish a complete server configuration … Continue reading →

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Windows in the Cloud with RightScale

Posted on August 17, 2010

As many of you know we’ve been working on supporting Windows on par with Linux within RightScale for close to a year. Well, the big moment has finally arrived where we can announce the GA (General Availability) of our Windows … Continue reading →

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More servers, bigger servers, longer servers, and 10x of that!

Posted on August 4, 2010

As a rapid growing start-up we obviously keep a close eye on where and how the growth is occurring and year after year it keeps amazing us. We just published a press release that showcases some of the trends we’re … Continue reading →

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