Tag Archives: EC2

Commercial Support for OpenStack on the Horizon

Posted on May 25, 2011 by

A change that was very palpable at the recent OpenStack conference is that a number of major industry players are readying commercial offerings around implementing OpenStack clouds. Today Citrix officially threw its hat into the ring announcing “Project Olympus” that … Continue reading →

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See you at the RightScale User Conference in NYC on June 8th

Posted on May 23, 2011 by

As the cloud computing landscape continues to rapidly evolve, RightScale is committed to helping you take advantage of the latest developments. These developments come from RightScale directly, our technology partners and from you – our customers.  Because cloud computing is … 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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RightScale-Ready Ubuntu 11.04 Amazon AMIs

Posted on April 29, 2011 by

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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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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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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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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Windows in the Cloud with RightScale

Posted on August 17, 2010 by

As many of you know we’ve been working on supporting Windows on par with Linux within RightScale for close to a year. Well, the big moment has finally arrived where we can announce the GA (General Availability) of our Windows … Continue reading →

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