Category Archives: Cloud Costs
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
RightScale Compute Preview: Plan Cloud Costs Now, Save Money Later
As the co-founder and product manager of PlanForCloud, I have talked to hundreds of people about their cloud costs. They are confused by the complex cloud provider pricing strategies that make it hard to understand where the majority of their … Continue reading
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Tagged Cloud Computing, RightScale Compute, User Conference
Analyzing Cloud Price Changes: How They Affect Your Bottom Line
Cloud pricing is growing more complex each month. As cloud IaaS vendors change prices and introduce new services, cloud users are finding it increasingly difficult to project their cloud costs. PlanForCloud, a free cloud cost forecasting tool from RightScale, includes … Continue reading
Lessons Learned from Recent Cloud Outages
Outages happen, and they happen everywhere. Whether you leverage a public cloud, a hosting provider, or your own data center, infrastructure downtime is inevitable. Equipment breaks or does not function as expected, software bugs slip by, natural disasters occur, and … Continue reading
How to Manage Cloud Costs and Optimize Resource Usage
Last year RightScale announced the acquisition of PlanForCloud, a cloud cost forecasting tool that enables you to model your cloud infrastructure, run it through a simulation, and get a three-year cost report showing what your deployment will cost. We know … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Costs, Cloud Management, PlanForCloud
Tagged AWS, Google Compute Engine, Rackspace, Softlayer, Windows Azure
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How Much Does Your Cloud Cost?
One of the earliest features we added to RightScale was cloud cost tracking and monthly projections. Instance usage reporting quickly became one of the most appreciated features by our customers (and their finance departments). Over time we’ve added more cost-tracking … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Costs, Cloud Management, EC2, PlanForCloud, Releases
Tagged cloud cost forecasting
Forecast Cloud Costs with PlanForCloud
Today we announced that RightScale acquired Scotland-based ShopForCloud, a free cloud cost forecasting website, and renamed it PlanForCloud. The website makes it easy to budget for your future cloud costs by giving you a set of tools to model your … Continue reading
