Tag Archives: Windows Azure
Enabling Cloud-Powered IT Without Headaches
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
Posted in Cloud Management, Microsoft
Tagged Cloud Management, RightScripts, ServerTemplate, Windows Azure
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RightScale Compute 2013: Day One
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
Deploy Windows Azure VMs with RightScale for Rapid Testing and Validation
With Microsoft’s announcement today of the general availability of its IaaS solutions, it’s only appropriate that we press on and get technical with how to use Windows Azure within your dev/test workflow. In my article on how to Integrate Windows … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Management, Microsoft
Tagged RightScale, Windows Azure
How to Manage Cloud Costs and Optimize Resource Usage
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
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Costs, Cloud Management, PlanForCloud
Tagged AWS, Google Compute Engine, Rackspace, Softlayer, Windows Azure
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RightScale Supports Windows Azure 2.0: Where IaaS Meets PaaS
Until now Windows Azure was synonymous with PaaS: Microsoft built a reputation as arguably one of the most successful PaaS providers. This is about to change with Microsoft’s announcement of Windows Azure 2.0, which adds a slew of improvements and … Continue reading
