Category Archives: EC2
RightLink Agent Security Features and Upgrading from V4 RightImages
A fundamental problem in Cloud management is “how do I get the remote instance to do what I want it to?”. Taking this task on for a few systems is doable with a number of techniques, making it scale for … Continue reading
Posted in Chef, EC2, Security
Tagged Cloud Management, RightImage, RightLink, RightScale, SSH
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Ending the Year with a bang! 5 new clouds managed by RightScale
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
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, EC2, Releases
Tagged AWS, Cloud Computing, Datapipe, EC2, MultiCloud, Rackspace, Release, Softlayer
Applying Security Workarounds in the RightScale Universe
In a recent post I discussed some of the options for patch management in the RightScale platform, this time I will talk about what happens when a patch is not available through traditional patch channels from the vendor. This typically … Continue reading
Security Patching in the RightScale Universe
Security vulnerabilities happen, it is just a fact, not only in technology but in life in general. When we are made aware of those vulnerabilities, we need to “fix” things or mitigate them to the best extent possible. In IT, … Continue reading
Microsoft .NET Stack Released
This is the Final post in our release series…following both our dashboard and ServerTemplates releases. Today we’ll talk about a unique solution we now support…let’s get started… Drum roll please…Introducing the auto-scaling, high availability .NET Stack on Amazon! Some of … Continue reading
RightScale Release: MultiCloud ServerTemplates and RightImages…
This is Part Two of our release series. A couple weeks ago, we announced a lot of goodies and while we’re going to talk about some new stuff today, be sure to come back next week for more about our … Continue reading
Posted in Chef, Cloud.com, EC2, Eucalyptus, OpenStack, Rackspace, Releases
Tagged Chef, Cloud.com, EC2, Eucalyptus, MultiCloud, Openstack, Rackspace, ServerTemplate
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Performing Security Testing in the Cloud
[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
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, EC2
Tagged AWS, Cloud Computing, EC2, Security
RightScale Release: Rackspace Linux ServerTemplate Support, Windows 2008R2, PostgreSQL 9
When a systems or software engineer is learning a new language, a plethora of examples to learn from is invaluable. The cloud currently feels like a new software language to many – new constructs, better tools, rewritten rules. RightScale has … Continue reading
Posted in EC2, Rackspace, Releases
Tagged EC2, Linux, Postgre SQL, Rackspace, Release, ServerTemplate, Windows
Commercial Support for OpenStack on the Horizon
A change that was very palpable at the recent OpenStack conference is that a number of major industry players are readying commercial offerings around implementing OpenStack clouds. Today Citrix officially threw its hat into the ring announcing “Project Olympus” that … Continue reading
See you at the RightScale User Conference in NYC on June 8th
As the cloud computing landscape continues to rapidly evolve, RightScale is committed to helping you take advantage of the latest developments. These developments come from RightScale directly, our technology partners and from you – our customers. Because cloud computing is … Continue reading
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Michael Crandell
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Shivan Bindal
Phil Cox
