Tag Archives: Cloud Computing

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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RightScale Global — Next Stop: Japan

Posted on March 2, 2011 by

Amazon’s datacenter in Tokyo may have been one of the worst-kept secrets in cloud computing and finally it’s public! We’ve been operating there to support customers for a while and can now turn on our dashboard support for the EC2 … Continue reading →

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RightScale Dashboard Release: Have It Your Way with Widgets

Posted on February 25, 2011 by

We’ve successfully completed the first release of the RightScale Dashboard for 2011. This release includes our answer to a few common problems or requests we’ve heard recently… let’s walk through them. One of the more common requests that we hear … Continue reading →

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Cluster monitoring with stacked graphs and heat maps

Posted on November 3, 2010 by

Just in time to demo at the RightScale User Conference, we started a private beta of two new cluster monitoring features: stacked graphs and heat maps. We’ve been using them for a while internally and they’ve been invaluable to quickly … Continue reading →

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RightScale ServerTemplate Showdown

Posted on October 7, 2010 by

Package your favorite software as a ServerTemplate or simply contribute your best ServerTemplate to the cloud community to demonstrate your expertise and win an iPad! Having recently introduced publishing to our full user base we’re now having a contest to … Continue reading →

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NorthScale publishes Memcache Server Template, you can publish too!

Posted on September 14, 2010 by

With last week’s release we relatively quietly threw a big switch, which allows all RightScale users to publish their own ServerTemplates to the RightScale community via our component library. This means that you can now publish a complete server configuration … Continue reading →

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More servers, bigger servers, longer servers, and 10x of that!

Posted on August 4, 2010 by

As a rapid growing start-up we obviously keep a close eye on where and how the growth is occurring and year after year it keeps amazing us. We just published a press release that showcases some of the trends we’re … 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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VMops rebrands to Cloud.com and open sources

Posted on May 4, 2010 by

Pretty bold move by VMops! They evidently bought the cloud.com domain and are rebranding to Cloud.com on the occasion of their new release, now called CloudStack 2.0, which they’re also open-sourcing at open.cloud.com. With this they’re joining the open source … Continue reading →

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Accelerating Cloud Adoption

Posted on April 28, 2010 by

Over the past weeks we’ve been releasing a number of new features in response to numerous requests from our user base to broaden the reach of the RightScale platform.  Just today we launched support for Amazon’s new Singapore region, see … Continue reading →

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