Category Archives: Cloud Computing
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
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management
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
Posted in Cloud Computing, Google Compute Engine
Tagged Cloud Computing, Google Compute Engine, User Conference
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RightScale State of the Cloud 2013: A Look Ahead
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
RightScale State of the Cloud 2013: Maturity Matters
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
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
RightScale State of the Cloud 2013: A New Industry Survey
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
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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