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.

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

Big Data: Big Pain or Big Profits?

A recent O’Reilly Radar article on big data in the cloud included a mention of RightScale and its ability to orchestrate server management across multiple clouds. It prompted me to think about the role of RightScale in supporting the implementation of big data solutions for our users. But first, what exactly is big data? Edd Dumbill, a contributor to O’Reilly Radar, offers this explanation: “Big data is data that exceeds the processing capacity o…

March 12, 2012 Flexera

Commercial Support for OpenStack on the Horizon

A change that was very palpable at the recent OpenStack conference is that a number of major industry players are readying commercial offerings around implementing OpenStack clouds. Today Citrix officially threw its hat into the ring, announcing Project Olympus, which lets any customer build a private or public cloud based on “a Citrix-certified version of OpenStack and a cloud-optimized version of Citrix XenServer.” Citrix is also wo…

May 25, 2011 Flexera

Cloud Trends: More Servers, Bigger Servers, and Longer Servers

As a rapid growing startup we obviously keep a close eye on where and how the growth is occurring and year after year it keeps amazing us. We just published a press release that showcases some of the …

August 4, 2010 Flexera

VMops Rebrands to Cloud.com and Opens Source

Pretty bold move by VMops! It bought the cloud.com domain and is rebranding to Cloud.com on the occasion of its new release, now called CloudStack 2.0, which it is also open-sourcing at open.cloud.com. It thus joins the open source private cloud landscape that Eucalyptus pioneered. We’ve been seeing a lot of interest in the private cloud space and have been working with Eucalyptus for a long time and with VMops/Cloud.com more recently. Euca…

May 4, 2010 Flexera

Cloud API Requirements

Does a standard cloud API makes sense? I’m still of the opinion that there is too much diversity out there and that the time is not ripe yet. There are many indispensable features in Amazon EC2 that no-one else has implemented at scale or for which there is no different take. The whole EBS feature set is one example. Image sharing and publishing is another one. Elastic IPs is another example. Eucalyptus has implementations for all this, but…

February 13, 2010 Flexera

Amazon EC2 – A New Chapter Begins

Tonight Amazon made a milestone release introducing the ability to boot instances from an EBS volume and stop and start instances. In addition, just a few weeks after announcing plans to expand AWS to the Far East, today it has moved west and made a U.S. West Coast cloud available. (Does Amazon need a compass?) For the AWS view on all this see Werner’s Blog as well as Jeff Barr’s postings. But one thing at a time… Amazon In…

December 3, 2009 Flexera

Amazon Usage Estimates

Two weeks ago Guy Rosen posted am interesting analysis of the EC2 instance IDs that reveals how many instances (virtual machines) have been launched on EC2 since its beginning in 2006. We’ve als…

October 5, 2009 Flexera

Rackspace Releases Draft Cloud Servers API

The “cloud without an API” is about to become a real cloud with an API! (Sorry Rackspace guys, I just couldn’t resist!) Rackspace posted a blog entry asking for feedback a little over a week ago and it’s looking pretty good! One item they solved nicely is passing personalization data into a new server. In the API you get to tell it to put some arbitrary data into any file you want on the root partition. This way it’s…

June 2, 2009 Flexera

Eucalyptus Systems Gets Funded

Our friends and neighbors at the new Eucalyptus Systems just got funding from no less than Benchmark and BV Capital. That’s a pretty exceptional accomplishment in the current venture climate. Read more about it at VentureBeat or on the new Eucalyptus site directly. In case you missed my recent posts, Eucalyptus is open source software that lets you set up your own cloud in you own data center. You can then plug your Eucalyptus cloud into Ri…

April 29, 2009 Flexera