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.

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

RightScale + Ubuntu + Eucalyptus = Cloud in a Box

Want a cloud in a box? Then start requisitioning a couple of machines now so you’re ready on Thursday to load up Ubuntu 9.04, install Eucalyptus, and follow the prompt to register your cloud with RightScale. And best of all, it’s all free – free open source software and access to a free RightScale service account. We’re finally getting close to the release of Ubuntu 9.04, which includes the technology preview for the Ubunt…

April 20, 2009 Flexera

Gartner Prediction Misses Today’s Enterprise Cloud Action

John Foley blogs about an interesting Gartner report that gives cloud computing up to 2015 for “mainstream enterprise adoption.” He describes it as “a surprisingly conservative forecast for business adoption of cloud computing services.” I actually thought the timelines were quite rapid and that we’re just not sure about what Gartner means by “mainstream.” The Gartner report misses a lot of the interestin…

February 4, 2009 Flexera

Cloud Computing Wouldn’t Exist Without Open Source

I’m at OSCON this week drinking from the open source fountain that made RightScale possible. In talking to Tim O’Reilly I noticed that he hadn’t realized how integral open source is to the cloud, so maybe this fact isn’t as obvious as I thought. Cloud computing is all about the flexibility to launch and terminate servers on demand, or more generally, to acquire and release resources on demand. This can help solve many tric…

July 24, 2008 Flexera

How EC2 Changes the Game in Batch Grid Computing

We’ve been receiving a number of inquiries about our RightGrid batch processing framework recently. RightGrid was designed to simplify the task of processing large numbers of jobs enqueued in Amazon SQS with the data to be processed residing in S3. Basically it takes care of all the fetching and pushing, and all you need to do is plug in your processing code that takes local files as input and produces local output files. People are asking …

April 6, 2008 Flexera

Network Performance Within Amazon EC2 and to Amazon S3

What is the expected network performance between Amazon EC2 instances? What is the available bandwidth between Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3? How about in and out of EC2? These are common questions that we get regularly. While we more or less know the answers to them out of our own experience in the past 15 months, we haven’t really conducted a clean experiment to put some more precise numbers behind them. Since it’s about time, I’ve…

October 28, 2007 Flexera