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.

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 Megan Crandell

Cloud Computing Trends: 2019 State of the Cloud Survey

RightScale was recently acquired by Flexera, a provider of technology asset management solutions that help enterprises gain insights on how to optimize spend and reduce risk. The same RightScale cloud…

February 27, 2019 Flexera

Cloud Computing Trends: 2018 State of the Cloud Survey

Update: 2019 cloud computing trends from the latest RightScale State of the Cloud Survey are now available. In January 2018, RightScale conducted its seventh annual State of the Cloud Survey of the la…

February 13, 2018 Kim Weins

Cloud Computing Trends: 2017 State of the Cloud Survey

Update: 2018 cloud computing trends from the latest RightScale State of the Cloud Survey are now available. In January 2017, RightScale conducted its sixth annual State of the Cloud Survey of the late…

February 15, 2017 Kim Weins

Cloud Computing Trends: 2016 State of the Cloud Survey

Update: 2017 State of the Cloud Survey key findings are now available. In January 2016, RightScale conducted its fifth annual State of the Cloud Survey of the latest cloud computing trends, with a foc…

February 9, 2016 Kim Weins

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