The cloud (and I mean the “public cloud”) is quite different from previous high tech industry trends for two fundamental reasons: 1) Cloud affects the broadest range of customers ever , appealing to businesses,...

Identifying workloads to move to the cloud can be tricky. RightScale Engineer Ryan Geyer shares 3 quick criteria to help you decide plus he provides more detail and reference architecture diagrams used for actual deployments.

DB2 Express-C v10 is the latest release of the free version of the IBM DB2 DBMS. It delivers better performance and new features such as RDF and temporal...

In August 2011, Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels caused a bit of a stir among systems architects by explaining how he runs his personal website, All Things Distributed, without a server. Technically, of course, Vogels' site is on a...

The gaming company has high hopes for its Z Cloud initiative. Zynga's CTO of Infrastructure explains his strategy, which includes RightScale to manage its hybrid cloud deployments.

A private cloud may not be the solution in every situation. Here, RightScale Architect, Brian Adler outlines 7 key considerations to evaluate whether a private cloud is the right choice for you.

Music Mastermind, Coupa Software share why they turned to more than one cloud services supplier. Yes, you can mix and match Amazon and Rackspace.

Citrix just announced a bold roadmap for its CloudStack platform on the heels of a Eucalyptus/AWS partnership. RightScale CTO Thorsten von Eicken gives his take on why not to get hung up on API compatibility in light of other considerations.

People often ask us what the biggest innovation is that RightScale offers beyond other forms of server management. If there is one aspect of the overall integration that is special to RightScale, it’s the methodology of dynamic server configuration using ServerTemplates and the ability to publish these ServerTemplates and meter their usage.

Does your IT or devops team run a lot of do-it-yourself projects? In this article, Darryl Eaton, Director of Product Management at RightScale, describes why you must know what you are getting yourself into before pursuing DIY cloud management.

Customers of SoftLayer’s global cloud infrastructure can now use RightScale Cloud Management to manage their workloads.

Now you can build from the ground up – rack and stack – RightScale-ready clouds in Equinix data centers. Or, if you're an existing Equinix customer, you can use RightScale to manage clouds you already have in Equinix facilities.

If you or someone you know fits this position, submit a resume!

Seth Epstein, Founder and CEO SocialStay, former Founder and CEO of FUEL (acquired by Razorfish) and Emmy Award winner for his work on the X-Games, recently spoke at UC Santa Barbara as part of the Technology Management...

Are you a Rackspace user who needs a solution to manage your cloud deployments faster and easier? The RightScale Cloud Management Platform can help by delivering faster cloud on-boarding with pre-built stacks and best practices.

Note: This is the third installment in the Startup Team Building series. Read Part I HERE and Part II HERE. When hiring ATM Operators at a Big Dumb Company (BDC), assessing each candidate’s ability to execute predictable tasks...

There has recently been a common theme among the entrepreneurs I have interviewed and the conferences I have attended: despite the relatively weak state of the world economy, now is a great time to create a high-tech startup....

When Michael Crandell co-founded RightScale, the original focus was on providing software to help manage cloud environments for Amazon's web services platform. It was a gutsy move, but one that is paying off.