Category Archives: Rackspace

Installing RightScale and Rackspace Private Cloud – in a Garage

Posted on March 18, 2013 by

RightScale’s Ryan Geyer, one of our cloud solutions engineers, likes to keep on top of the latest cloud technologies. While some people spend their weekends building model airplanes or puttering in their yards, Ryan likes playing with private clouds, and … Continue reading →

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Launch Application-Centric OpenStack Clouds with RightScale and Rackspace

Posted on March 14, 2013 by

RightScale just added more functionality for the Rackspace Open Cloud, which is based on OpenStack, the massively scalable open source cloud operating system. Now RightScale customers can take advantage of even more features for managing their Open Cloud Servers. Plus … Continue reading →

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Forecast Cloud Costs with PlanForCloud

Posted on July 18, 2012 by

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 →

Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Costs, Cloud Management, EC2, Google Compute Engine, Microsoft, PlanForCloud, Rackspace, Releases | 4 Comments

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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