Category Archives: Cloud Management

How to Replace the Cloud: No Fooling

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

It’s April Fools’ Day, and alas, we don’t have a plausible tale about how we’ve managed to harness neutrinos to create warp-speed inter-cloud communications, or a clever new technique that uses recursive virtualization to run an entire cloud on a … Continue reading →

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AWS CloudHSM: Why You’ll Want It and What to Watch Out For

Posted on March 28, 2013 by

Security has been one of the top challenges in every survey on cloud computing in the last five years. Yet public cloud providers have continued to beef up their security offerings, and not everyone realizes how far providers have come … Continue reading →

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Overcoming Cloudbursting Challenges

Posted on March 7, 2013 by

One of the key benefits of cloud computing is that it gives you the ability to launch resources as needed to meet application demands. Some organizations that run their own private clouds are interested in leveraging cloudbursting, traditionally defined as an … Continue reading →

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Integrate Windows Azure IaaS with RightScale to Improve Your SDLC

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

Whether you have a formalized process that’s tailored to your business, or you’ve chosen one of the Microsoft-provided ALM models within Team Foundation Server, or your process is seemingly ad hoc, it’s worth re-examining your software development lifecycle (SDLC) every … Continue reading →

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Lessons Learned from Recent Cloud Outages

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

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 →

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Thoughts on AWS OpsWorks Application Management

Posted on February 25, 2013 by

Since RightScale pioneered the category of cloud management six years ago, we’ve watched a variety of players large and small offer software and services targeted at some form of management of cloud applications and resources. We like to keep tabs … Continue reading →

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Scaling and Managing the Human Tier

Posted on February 1, 2013 by

OK, so you’ve built your n-tier architecture. You’ve deployed it in the cloud. You’ve scaled it horizontally, vertically, geographically, and even temporally. It grows and shrinks at your command. Now what? Now you need to consider the human tier. You … Continue reading →

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Security Monitoring In Public IaaS: How We Do It at RightScale

Posted on January 24, 2013 by

In my experience helping RightScale customers who are at varying points in the cloud adoption spectrum from investigating IaaS to launching a POC to already using IaaS for production applications, I see quite a bit of confusion about how to … Continue reading →

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Managing Large-Scale User-Access Control with the RightScale API

Posted on January 10, 2013 by

What’s with the check boxes you ask? It’s a partial visual representation of what it looks like to manage 83 users, 15 RightScale accounts, and 11 permissions for each user in each account. That’s 13,695 check boxes I’d potentially need … Continue reading →

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How to Manage Cloud Costs and Optimize Resource Usage

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

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 →

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