Tag: Cloud Industry Insights

Cloud industry insights from RightScale provide you with actionable data for defining and implementing your cloud strategy. We publish articles on cloud computing trends, including our annual State of the Cloud Report featuring data and detailed analysis from the largest survey on the use of cloud infrastructure by cloud buyers.

Cloud Computing Trends: 2020 State of the Cloud Report

The ninth annual Flexera 2020 State of the Cloud Report highlights the latest cloud computing trends, with a focus on infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service. The 2020 cloud computin…

May 21, 2020 Kim Weins

Optima + Oracle Cloud: Evolving the multi-cloud landscape

Flexera is committed to supporting the success of multi-cloud enterprises. As part of that, we are pleased to announce an expansion of our partnership with Oracle that will extend Optima’s public clou…

September 17, 2019 Flexera

IaaS vs. PaaS: 2015 Cloud Trends from the State of the Cloud Survey

In the RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Survey, we asked technical professionals about their use of various public cloud providers, including IaaS and PaaS platforms from Microsoft Azure and Google.…

February 25, 2015 Kim Weins

Xen Bug Drives Cloud Reboot: Survey Shows Users Undeterred

The Xen vulnerability announced October 1 caused AWS, Rackspace, and SoftLayer to patch and reboot many cloud instances in the preceding week. We wanted to go beyond the anecdotes, tweets, and blogs t…

October 9, 2014 Kim Weins

Cloud Price Reductions: A Definitive Analysis of 2013 Trends

Update: March 27, 2014 Cloud prices are constantly dropping as we noted in this article. This week first Google and then AWS announced significant new price changes that will be very attractive to man…

March 21, 2014 Bret Clement

Does Virtual-to-Cloud Make Sense?

One of the first steps that many organizations take when they begin thinking outside the data center is to convert physical servers to virtual machines. An array of Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) tools can help systems administrators inspect a physical server’s filesystems; package up the operating system, the applications, and the data; and create a virtual machine image for a virtualized environment to replace the physical server. Systems administra…

May 21, 2013 Flexera

RightScale State of the Cloud 2013: A Look Ahead

I’ve already introduced our RightScale State of the Cloud 2013 industry survey and talked about how the results show that the greater the level of maturity an organization has with cloud, the mo…

May 3, 2013 Kim Weins

Analyzing Cloud Price Changes: How They Affect Your Bottom Line

Cloud pricing is growing more complex each month. As cloud IaaS vendors change prices and introduce new services, cloud users are finding it increasingly difficult to project their cloud costs. PlanF…

March 27, 2013 Kim Weins

CloudStack Graduates to Top-Level Apache Status

It’s a little early in the year for “Pomp and Circumstance,” but don’t tell that to CloudStack. The open source IaaS platform this week graduated from an incubation project to a top-level project within the Apache Software Foundation. The project is now working on both its 4.0.2 and 4.1.0 releases, and from here on, users can expect a new feature release every four months, according to CloudStack evangelist Joe Brockmeier. As with previous releas…

March 25, 2013 Flexera

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