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Cloud cost optimisation and management continues to be a hot area – and Flexera’s acquisition of RightScale, announced last week, plays into that theme even further.

Flexera, an Itasca, IL-based company that makes the business of buying and selling software more transparent, secure and effective, acquired RightScale, a provider of multi-cloud management and cost optimization solutions.

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Flexera announced it has acquired RightScale, a recognised industry leader in multi-cloud management and cost optimisation.

The new normal in cloud environments has become predictably complex. It is changing everything product markets across multiple categories are reshaped. This is our assessment.

Flexera has announced that it has acquired multi-cloud management and cost optimization company, RightScale. By adding RightScale’s products to its portfolio, Flexera hopes that it is a taking a big step towards solving the problem of cloud services overspending and control.

Flexera yesterday announced the purchase of RightScale, a leader in the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) management market.

Software asset management company Flexera has acquired multicloud management and cost optimization firm RightScale.

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The deal rounds out Flexera's capabilities as customers look to keep a handle on increasingly complex IT resources

Flexera in Itasca announced today it has acquired RightScale, a company specializing in multi-cloud management and cost optimization

Flexera, an IL-based software asset management (SAM) firm announced that it has acquired RightScale, one of the first multi-cloud management and cost optimization companies.

Flexera says it wants to help enterprises keep a lid on their cloud spending, acquiring RightScale for an undisclosed price today to beef up its ability to do that.

Flexera, a software asset management company, is acquiring cloud management firm RightScale in a deal that melds enterprise applications and cloud deployments.

Confidential information – personally identifiable data, customer data, trade secrets – circulates like a bloodstream through enterprise applications. With security breaches making daily news and regulations like GDPR and Sarbanes-Oxley proliferating, bad data security practices can land organisations in court and ruin reputations.

Arlo Gilbert, Vice President of Cloud Strategy, Flexera, speaks to ReadITQuik about the best approaches to SaaS management, optimal software and cloud infrastructure utilization and the rationale for acquiring Meta SaaS. Read on to learn about a new 3-part software buying framework, a two-step approach to shifting critical systems to the cloud and much more!

The vulnerability scan results security departments issue to the operations teams typically contain hundreds of pages and thousands of vulnerabilities to address. It’s a massive list often containing some prioritization based on the criticality of the vulnerabilities observed; and for some more mature organizations, an assessment and opinion of the security team. Typically, operations teams care about security in the endpoints. But, their job is to guarantee uptime and user satisfaction, which often suffers when deploying patches requires reboots and application restarts. And then there’s the resource constraint issue, like the difficulty of prioritization in a world where everything seems to be urgent, the lack of visibility, questions around ownership and available time, and so on. It’s a tough ask to minimize the risk in the endpoints without a holistic, multi-departmental collaboration focused on specific risk policies and profiles.

Seven years ago, Marc Andreessen made his famous statement that software is eating the world. His cautionary, much-discussed advice on the back of this judgment was that every business needed to start acting like a software company in order to survive.

The GDPR is now in full effect. While enterprises have put in a lot of effort to be compliant as of 25 May 2018 when the regulation took effect, compliance with the GDPR isn’t a tick-box activity and so organisations need a comprehensive and ongoing approach to privacy management. They must also document how they collect, process and store personal data. In addition to the GDPR, security fundamentals are essential for other regulations too such as the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and ISO 27001. Non-compliance has the potential to make the cost of failure far greater than it’s ever been.

Flexera has released a report revealing desktop apps that pose the biggest risks, so IT can create a plan to prevent attacks.