Tag Archives: Rackspace

Installing RightScale and Rackspace Private Cloud – in a Garage

Posted on March 18, 2013 by

RightScale’s Ryan Geyer, one of our cloud solutions engineers, likes to keep on top of the latest cloud technologies. While some people spend their weekends building model airplanes or puttering in their yards, Ryan likes playing with private clouds, and … Continue reading →

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Launch Application-Centric OpenStack Clouds with RightScale and Rackspace

Posted on March 14, 2013 by

RightScale just added more functionality for the Rackspace Open Cloud, which is based on OpenStack, the massively scalable open source cloud operating system. Now RightScale customers can take advantage of even more features for managing their Open Cloud Servers. Plus … Continue reading →

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How to Manage Cloud Costs and Optimize Resource Usage

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

Last year RightScale announced the acquisition of PlanForCloud, a cloud cost forecasting tool that enables you to model your cloud infrastructure, run it through a simulation, and get a three-year cost report showing what your deployment will cost. We know … Continue reading →

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RightScale Conference: Talk to the Experts About Cloud

Posted on May 16, 2012 by

Cloud is here and cloud is now. RightScale has led the way in cloud management, with more than 4 million servers launched in the cloud to date. We know that cloud is a strategy, not just a tactical solution. It’s … 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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Microsoft .NET Stack Released

Posted on September 15, 2011 by

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…

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

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: Rackspace Linux ServerTemplate Support, Windows 2008R2, PostgreSQL 9

Posted on June 14, 2011 by

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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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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