Category Archives: Rackspace

RightScale Launches 3 Millionth Server

Posted on September 20, 2011 by

Here at RightScale, we’ve just passed the 3 million server milestone.  Driven by our growing customer and free-user base, and their ever-increasing cloud usage, the 3M mark represents a benchmark in the industry, and is noteworthy in three different ways. … Continue reading →

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Microsoft .NET Stack Released

Posted on September 15, 2011 by

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 →

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RightScale Release: MultiCloud ServerTemplates and RightImages…

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

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 →

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RightScale Release: Rackspace Linux ServerTemplate Support, Windows 2008R2, PostgreSQL 9

Posted on June 14, 2011 by

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 →

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RightScale Release: 25 ServerTemplates across 66 RightImages

Posted on March 29, 2011 by

Is it Christmas? It seems the RightScale elves have been very busy. Luckily for you, many of our elves have PhDs or masters degrees in Computer Science… or just many years behind a unix prompt. Lucky for us, they don’t … Continue reading →

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OpenStack: game changing open source cloud platform

Posted on July 18, 2010 by

Today RackSpace announced that it is open-sourcing it’s cloud platform, i.e. the code that powers CloudServers and CloudFiles, at openstack.org. We’ve been working with RackSpace for quite a while and have also participated in this new initiative at a workshop … Continue reading →

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RightScale ServerTemplate Library and Machine Tags

Posted on October 28, 2009 by

Yesterday’s release of the RightScale platform introduced two new features that I’m really excited about: the ServerTemplate Library and the use of Machine Tags on servers. (Ooops, I shouldn’t forget the new features for RackSpace, but I’ll talk about those … Continue reading →

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More RightScale open source goodness

Posted on July 27, 2009 by

We’ve always been strong supporters of open source: we use it a lot and we’ve been contributing many things to the community as well. In particular, since early 2007 we’ve been publishing the recipes to our RightImages and we’ve also … Continue reading →

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RackSpace releases draft Cloud Servers API

Posted on June 1, 2009 by

In case you missed, the “cloud without an API” is about to become a real cloud with an API! (Sorry RackSpace guys, I just couldn’t resist!) Bret at RackSpace posted a blog entry asking for feedback a little over a … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Rackspace