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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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Zend publishes PHP PaaS on RightScale

Posted on April 19, 2011 by

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 by

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 by

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 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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RightScale Global — Next Stop: Japan

Posted on March 2, 2011 by

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 by

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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RightScale ServerTemplate Showdown

Posted on October 7, 2010 by

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 by

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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