Tag Archives: RightScale

RightScale Server Orchestration and Amazon SWF launch

The launch of Amazon’s SWF (see also Werner’s blog) is a good opportunity to talk about some of the exciting new automation features that we have in the works and we will make available with the coming releases. We’ve been using … Continue reading

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Get more out of your cloud with RightScale and Citrix CloudStack 3

RightScale has been integrated with CloudStack since 2010 and we jointly run many of the world’s largest production cloud deployments. Last year’s acquisition of Cloud.com by Citrix marked a new beginning for a relationship that, coupled with the RightScale multicloud … Continue reading

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RightLink Agent Security Features and Upgrading from V4 RightImages

A fundamental problem in Cloud management is “how do I get the remote instance to do what I want it to?”. Taking this task on for a few systems is doable with a number of techniques, making it scale for … Continue reading

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

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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RightScale Dashboard Release: Japanese, More Widgets, and -your idea here-

The RightScale customer community is growing rapidly and we always appreciate your feedback and support. We’re bringing RightScale users together for our 4th RightScale User Conference in New York in June. Customers are flying in from all over the world … Continue reading

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Zend publishes PHP PaaS on RightScale

It looks like 2011 is shaping up as the year of PaaS and the notion of what a PaaS is is starting to stretch out a bit. I used to think of PaaS as being what Heroku or Google App … Continue reading

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Launch VMware’s CloudFoundry PaaS using RightScale

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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RightScale Release: 25 ServerTemplates across 66 RightImages

Is it Christmas? It seems the RightScale elves have been very busy. Luckily for you, many of our elves have PhDs or masters degrees in Computer Science… or just many years behind a unix prompt. Lucky for us, they don’t … Continue reading

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RightScale ServerTemplate Showdown

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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Windows in the Cloud with RightScale

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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