RightScale Cloud Journal

Do you know how many times Amazon Web Services changed the pricing of its cloud services in 2011? No? Neither do I. Cloud services are often dynamic with variable pricing and keeping track of price changes and optimizing your services accordingly can be quite an undertaking, particularly as more services are migrated to different cloud service providers. With companies migrating to Cloud services in record numbers in order to address their business inefficiencies, many are bringing those inefficient practices with them to the cloud. Over-provisioning of resources when migrating to cloud services is one common inefficiency, and balancing the costs and performance of those services is not a trivial undertaking, until now that is. I had the opportunity to speak with Sharon Wagner, founder and CEO of Cloudyn about their new SaaS service which aims to address over-provi... (more)

Manage Multiple Clouds with RightScale

I recently got a chance to work on RightScale for a proof-of-concept and I must say that they have an impressive technical architecture that reflects some of design and deployment best practices of the Cloud. I want to provide a business overview of this platform through this article. Compared to traditional IT, Cloud does offer many benefits in the form of self-service, on-demand, elastic, and pay-as-you-go models. For example, going live with a line of business application on physical infrastructure might take anywhere between 6 to 8 weeks and by leveraging the Cloud, this can... (more)

RightScale Drives Business Success in the Cloud; Hosts 6th Conference on June 13 in NYC

SANTA BARBARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/16/12 -- RightScale, the leader in cloud computing management, today announced it is hosting the sixth RightScale Conference on June 13 in New York. From large enterprises to start-ups, companies today are looking to gain business agility and scale with cloud computing. Whether companies are developing or evolving their cloud strategies, they are looking to leverage public, private and hybrid clouds in their IT architecture. At the upcoming RightScale Conference, industry luminaries, cloud experts and customers will share their multi-cloud ... (more)

APM vs NPM. 2nd Round K.O.

Round Two – Last time I wrote a blog comparing APM versus network-based APM tools, which I still consider NPM at it’s core regardless of what some critics and competitors claim. Let me make one thing clear though, NPM is great for equipping IT network administrators to see how fast or slow data is traveling through the pipes of their application. Unfortunately, network-based APM tools simply cannot provide App Ops granular visibility into the application runtime when isolating bottlenecks go beyond the system level and it’s final destination – the end user’s browser. I find seve... (more)

Cloud Office and Collaboration Productivity Applications Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018

NEW YORK, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Cloud Office and Collaboration Productivity Applications Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018 http://www.reportlinker.com/p0840937/Cloud-Office-and-Collaboration-Productivity-Applications-Market-Shares-Strategies-and-Forecasts-Worldwide-2012-to-2018.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=IT_Hosting WinterGreen Research announces the following study: Cloud Client Productivity and Collaboration Applications Marke... (more)