RightScale Cloud Journal

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley $500 Savings here! Organizations are looking for a simple and efficient method to leverage existing on-premise hardware to build private cloud infrastructure that can then be managed alongside public cloud resources - creating automated, scalable hybrid clouds. In his session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Brian Adler, Senior Professional Services Architect at RightScale, will demonstrate how these easy steps are transforming business in the cloud through real case study examples. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! Speaker Bio: Brian Adler is Senior Professional Services Architect at RightScale, bringing years of experience working with multi-cloud environments. He advises on complex application architectures with customers and their cloud implementations, working directly with customers to dynamically configure... (more)

Delivering Multi-Cloud Deployments

"We are truly delivering on this promise of the ability to deliver multi-cloud deployments. We are going through a massive and tectonic shift in the ways companies buy, pay, and consume IT resources so it's not a change that happens quickly," notes Uri Budnik, ISV Partner Program Evangelist at RightScale, in this SYS-CON.TV interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 9th International Cloud Expo, held Nov 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. A Rock Star Faculty, Top Keynotes, Sessions, and Top Delegates! Cloud Expo New York, Jun... (more)

Community Cloud: Not in a Boat, Not with a Goat

Based on thoughts I have after responding quickly to this question posted on Focus.com To me the strategy of splintering the concept of Cloud Computing into false constructs of Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud sounds like a tone-deaf rendition of Dr. Suess's Do You Like Green Eggs and Ham? And in this retelling of the story, both the person beseached to try green eggs and ham and the narrator each have personal needs they partner around and attempt to articulate. The narrator, for one, like the incumbent technology vendors of today's compute, storage, network, and servic... (more)

This Week in Cloud

Featured on Cloud Commons Cloud Benchmark Series: Amazon Simple Queue Service. Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a hosted queue for storing messages that are transmitted between computers. Developers can transmit data between distributed components of an application without requiring the availability of all the components of that application. The Stony Brook Network Security and Applied Cryptography Lab evaluated Amazon SQS by measuring the number of simultaneously supported users, the size of the message, and the throughput rate. This 10-page report details the testing setup,... (more)

Cloud Computing Expo 2010 East Will Take Place April 19-21 at Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City

WOODCLIFF LAKE, NJ -- (Marketwire) -- 10/30/09 -- SYS-CON Events announced today that the 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo  will take place April 19-20-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and in Europe. Over 200 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Computing Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put ... (more)