Tag Archives: Cloud Computing

Why Do-It-Yourself Cloud Computing Management Is a Temporary Fad

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

I recently called up my buddy who used to be vice president of marketing at SugarCRM. I asked him if he ever encountered companies that were building their own CRM solutions internally. “No, that’s dumb,” he said. “That’s why they … Continue reading →

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Ending the Year with a bang! 5 new clouds managed by RightScale

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

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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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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Performing Security Testing in the Cloud

Posted on August 4, 2011 by

[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 →

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AWS outage follow-up: if you wanted details, you got details!

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

A week after the April 21st 2011 outage AWS posted a detailed post mortem explanation of what happened. It’ll be interesting to see how everyone digests the very detailed account. Since AWS did not provide an executive summary I’ll try … Continue reading →

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Amazon EC2 outage: summary and lessons learned

Posted on April 25, 2011 by

Last Thursday’s Amazon EC2 outage was the worst in cloud computing’s history. It made the front page of many news pages, including the New York Times, probably because many people were shocked by how many web sites and services rely … Continue reading →

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Cloud Foundry Architecture and Auto-Scaling

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

Yesterday’s blog post mostly covered the benefits of VMware’s Cloud Foundry PaaS and how it fits with RightScale. Today I want to dive a little into the Cloud Foundry architecture and highlight how IaaS and PaaS really are complementary. I’m … Continue reading →

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Launch VMware’s CloudFoundry PaaS using RightScale

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

VMware’s Cloud Foundry release has the potential to be quite a watershed moment for the PaaS world. It provides many of the core pieces that are needed to build a PaaS in an open source form — VMware has put … Continue reading →

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ServerTemplates: The Key to RightScale Cloud Management

Posted on March 22, 2011 by

People often ask us what the biggest innovation is that RightScale offers beyond other forms of server management. The real answer is the integrated approach that puts together all the parts needed to architect multi-server deployments, launch them, monitor and … Continue reading →

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Cloud Japan: fastest growing cloud?

Posted on March 7, 2011 by

The pent-up demand for cloud computing in Japan seems to have grown almost exponentially in recent months. We have been working with Japanese customers and partners for years and now that a public cloud is available (the new EC2 Tokyo … Continue reading →

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