Tag: Enterprise Cloud Strategies

Enterprise cloud strategies that focus on saving money and streamlining operations are becoming essential as central IT teams take a stronger role in cloud adoption. Through years of experience providing advice and guidance to our enterprise customers, the RightScale team has deep knowledge on how to define and execute a successful cloud strategy, which we share here on our blog.

Mergers and Acquisitions: IT can make or break

Business continues to boom. After years of record global merger and acquisition (M&A) growth, it looks like another good one for strategic expansion. With major deals like Charles Schwab’s announc…

February 26, 2020 Kevin Miller

Multi-Cloud Policy Automation for Any Cloud and Service

According to the RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud Report, 8 out of 10 enterprises are using more than one cloud typically combining multiple public cloud providers along with private clouds or cloud…

August 20, 2018 Flexera

Tagging Best Practices for Cloud Governance and Cost Management

Enterprises are now, more than ever, living in a multi-cloud environment managing highly complex pricing structures and an onslaught of new cloud services. The key to success is implementing enterpris…

January 25, 2018 Kim Weins

How Telcos and Other MSPs Are Succeeding in Cloud

There is little debate: Cloud computing has moved us into a new era of IT. Yet for service providers ranging from telcos to managed services providers (MSPs), the cloud provides both business challeng…

July 18, 2016 Flexera

SunGard Uses AWS for a Cost-Effective, Resilient Cloud Application

Today’s guest blog post comes from Alex Krikos, director of cloud services product management at SunGard Availability Services. Early this year, a key customer of ours told us it wanted to move …

October 24, 2013 Flexera

Six Tips for Choosing a Cloud Proof-of-Concept Application

Cloud computing gives businesses many options for hosting their applications. Cloud provides instant-on for the immediate launch of tools and applications, allows end users to launch applications them…

October 17, 2013 Flexera

Tenthwave Launches a Cloud-Based Facebook App in Two Weeks

At Tenthwave, a full-service digital agency, Hadley Taylor and Jade Wesdorp are among those responsible for supporting the organization’s projects from a technical perspective. Once upon a time …

October 4, 2013 Flexera

Enabling Cloud-Powered IT Without Headaches

If you’ve read my previous articles on using RightScale to manage Windows Azure cloud infrastructure, you’ve made sense of your Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and you’ve automated y…

May 20, 2013 Flexera

RightScale Compute: PCI-Compliant Apps in the Public Cloud

PCI compliance in the public cloud is a growing topic of concern and interest. Some people claim one can be a PCI-compliant merchant using a public IaaS cloud, while others say that’s impossible. I am a former Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) and have participated in multiple PCI working groups, and I’m firmly in the former camp. PCI compliance in the cloud is possible, but the hardest part is knowing what you need to do and what you…

April 11, 2013 Flexera

Architecting Scalable Applications in the Cloud: Database Tier

This week brings me to the fourth and final post in my series on Architecting Scalable Applications in the Cloud, where previously I’ve discussed techniques for hardening your application infrastructu…

October 31, 2012 Flexera