Category Archives: Releases

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

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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

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RightScale in Japan with IDC Frontier

Last year we announced a bunch of new clouds to the RightScale dashboard.  Each of those clouds brought a differentiated offering to our user base.  Recently, we announced public availability of a new cloud – IDC Frontier Cloud.  Analyst Agatha … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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RightScale Release: New MultiCloud API, New Add Server Assistant, and Community Translations

This is the first of three posts you’ll be seeing regarding everything we’re releasing over the next couple of weeks. First, we had a new dashboard release tonight, which I’ll tell you about below. Next week, we’re releasing some sophisticated … Continue reading

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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

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RightScale Dashboard Release: Japanese, More Widgets, and -your idea here-

The RightScale customer community is growing rapidly and we always appreciate your feedback and support. We’re bringing RightScale users together for our 4th RightScale User Conference in New York in June. Customers are flying in from all over the world … Continue reading

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RightScale-Ready Ubuntu 11.04 Amazon AMIs

Ubunutu 11.04 Natty Narwhal is released, and there’s something in it for RightScale users! We’ve been working with our partners at Canonical to make it possible to use Ubuntu AMIs out of the box with RightScale. This means you can … Continue reading

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