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Cloud APIs: It’s the Architecture that Matters

Posted on April 3, 2012 by

Lack of excitement is not something the cloud market can be accused of! Citrix just announced a bold roadmap for its CloudStack platform coming right on the heels of a Eucalyptus and Amazon announcement to extend API compatibility and just … Continue reading →

Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, CloudStack, EC2, Eucalyptus | 1 Comment

RightScale Server Orchestration and Amazon SWF launch

Posted on February 22, 2012 by

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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Ending the Year with a bang! 5 new clouds managed by RightScale

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

What a year it’s been!  We’ve released a lot of really cool features, including a MultiCloud API and many MultiCloud ServerTemplates.  To round out the year, last week, we launched 5 new public clouds that are available on the RightScale … Continue reading →

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RightScale Launches 3 Millionth Server

Posted on September 20, 2011 by

Here at RightScale, we’ve just passed the 3 million server milestone.  Driven by our growing customer and free-user base, and their ever-increasing cloud usage, the 3M mark represents a benchmark in the industry, and is noteworthy in three different ways. … Continue reading →

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Performing Security Testing in the Cloud

Posted on August 4, 2011 by

[This is Phil Cox's first blog post since he joined us as Director of Security and Compliance. We hope to have more from him to post in the near future! -Thorsten] Security testing is one aspect of a security program … Continue reading →

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

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

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 by

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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RightScale Release: 25 ServerTemplates across 66 RightImages

Posted on March 29, 2011 by

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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ServerTemplates: The Key to RightScale Cloud Management

Posted on March 22, 2011 by

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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Windows in the Cloud with RightScale

Posted on August 17, 2010 by

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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