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Microsoft’s License Changes for Public Cloud: How Do They Affect You?

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced major changes to the rules for bringing Microsoft licenses to the public cloud, including AWS, Alibaba and Google. From Microsoft’s blog: “Beginning Oct. …

August 27, 2019 Kim Weins

RightScale Acquired by Flexera, a Leader in Technology Asset Management

I’m excited to share that RightScale has been acquired by Flexera. We are thrilled to join the Flexera family to extend the company’s leading software and hardware management and optimization capabili…

September 26, 2018 Flexera

Multi-Cloud Policy Automation for Any Cloud and Service

According to the RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud Report, 8 out of 10 enterprises are using more than one cloud typically combining multiple public cloud providers along with private clouds or cloud…

August 20, 2018 Flexera

Cloud Providers Comparison 2018

Our latest cloud providers comparison for 2018 includes a rundown of the new features released since April by AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and IBM Cloud. If your organization is alread…

June 29, 2018 Kim Weins

RightScale Product Updates: AWS Reserved Instances Utilization Now Supported in Optima, Cloud Workflow Integrated with Paging and Ticketing Systems and More

Now Available: RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud Report In January we conducted our seventh annual State of the Cloud Survey of the latest cloud computing trends, with a focus on infrastructure-as-a…

February 26, 2018 Flexera

Tagging Best Practices for Cloud Governance and Cost Management

Enterprises are now, more than ever, living in a multi-cloud environment managing highly complex pricing structures and an onslaught of new cloud services. The key to success is implementing enterpris…

January 25, 2018 Kim Weins

Compare Top Public Cloud Providers: AWS vs Azure vs Google

Since the announcements from AWS re:Invent in late November, we’ve updated our free Cloud Comparison tool to include a slew of new features announced by AWS as well as new features from the other top …

January 17, 2018 Kim Weins

How Azure Reserved Instances Work and How They Compare to AWS

How Are Azure Reserved Instances Different Than AWS Reserved Instances? Microsoft recently announced Reserved Instances for Azure, which have many similarities to AWS Reserved Instances but also some …

January 2, 2018 Kim Weins

Comparing Cloud Instance Pricing: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBM

As cloud computing matures, instance types from the top public cloud providers are becoming more similar, making it easier to compare cloud instance pricing. At the same time, cloud providers con…

November 18, 2017 Kim Weins

Where Is the $10B in Waste in Public Cloud Costs?

The public cloud providers recently announced their revenue for Q3, and the numbers are big and growing quickly. Combined revenue for the big three (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cl…

November 13, 2017 Kim Weins