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.

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

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