Tag Archives: Cloud Management

Enabling Cloud-Powered IT Without Headaches

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

If you’ve read my previous articles on using RightScale to manage Windows Azure cloud infrastructure, you’ve made sense of your Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and you’ve automated your development and test environment deployments using Windows Azure virtual machines and RightScale, … Continue reading →

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RightScale Compute 2013: Day One

Posted on April 26, 2013 by

Yesterday was the first day of RightScale Compute 2013, our annual conference in San Francisco. (You can also read about Day Two.) The day kicked off with a keynote address by James Staten, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester, … Continue reading →

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RightScale Compute 2013 Preview: How RightScale Architects Its Own Databases

Posted on April 19, 2013 by

Want a peek behind the scenes at how RightScale builds the tools that help organizations deploy and manage applications across public, private, and hybrid clouds? I’m RightScale’s chief architect, and at RightScale Compute 2013 I’ll be sharing that information in … Continue reading →

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A Faster, More Powerful RightScale Dashboard

Posted on April 4, 2013 by

In recent months we’ve refreshed three sections of the RightScale dashboard: Last September, we released a UI for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Queue Service (SQS), and in February we released updated UIs for AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) and … Continue reading →

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Integrate Windows Azure IaaS with RightScale to Improve Your SDLC

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

Whether you have a formalized process that’s tailored to your business, or you’ve chosen one of the Microsoft-provided ALM models within Team Foundation Server, or your process is seemingly ad hoc, it’s worth re-examining your software development lifecycle (SDLC) every … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on AWS OpsWorks Application Management

Posted on February 25, 2013 by

Since RightScale pioneered the category of cloud management six years ago, we’ve watched a variety of players large and small offer software and services targeted at some form of management of cloud applications and resources. We like to keep tabs … Continue reading →

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RightScale Enterprise Security Features Unleashed

Posted on August 8, 2012 by

We have been busy this summer working on a number of security- and governance-related features for our Enterprise Edition customers, who are typically large organizations that have well-defined internal user identity and compliance structures. With the latest RightScale release, we have … Continue reading →

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Three Quick Wins for Cloud Computing

Posted on July 11, 2012 by

Are you still trying to decide how to move your organization into the cloud? Do you already have servers in the cloud but can’t figure out how to best utilize them? At RightScale, we have these conversations with prospective customers … Continue reading →

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RightScale Joins Google Compute Engine for Launch Day

Posted on June 28, 2012 by

Today we’ll be demoing RightScale managing a deployment on Google Compute Engine during the launch presentation at Google I/O at 1:30pm (PT). With the release of Google Compute Engine, the year 2012 is becoming a turning point in the evolution … Continue reading →

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RightScale in Japan with IDC Frontier

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

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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