Installing RightScale and Rackspace Private Cloud – in a Garage

Ryan Geyer, a RightScale cloud solutions engineer, likes to keep on top of the latest cloud technologies, including Rackspace cloud management. While some people spend their weekends building model airplanes or puttering in their yards, Ryan likes playing with private clouds, and recently built a Rackspace Private Cloud Powered by OpenStack in his garage. Check out his step-by-step description, along with a photo showing that yes, you can actuall…

March 18, 2013 Flexera

What Is a Private Cloud?

As organizations look to building efficient, scalable web applications, they often turn to the cloud to satisfy their needs. Given that the leading infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rackspace, and Windows Azure are best known for their public cloud solutions, it’s not surprising that some businesses never consider private clouds because they know too little about them. While public clouds offer similar …

February 15, 2013 Flexera

Best Practices: Managing Web Application Sessions

Everyone has an opinion about how you should write your application. Whether it’s the structure, language, or database (or not!) that you choose, there are plenty of people telling you what you should do, but not how to do it. So I’m going to focus on the application tier and address several issues regarding application session management — one of the trickiest aspects to tackle in high-performance and cloud-deployed applications and …

December 21, 2012 Flexera

RightScale Enterprise Security Features Unleashed

We have been busy this summer working on a number of security- and governance-related features for our Enterprise Edition customers, who are typically large organizations that have well-defined internal user identity and compliance structures. With the latest RightScale release, we have improved or added on to the following features: Managed SSH Login Single Sign-On with SAML API-Based Authentication with OAuth 2.0 The combination of the three …

August 8, 2012 Flexera