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- Business Intelligence in the Cloud
- The presenter of this webcast gives practical information about cloud computing and demonstrates a new approach to business intelligence. No longer are dedicated hardware and software required to meet ad hoc or unpredictable BI requirements.
- Tags: RightScale, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- Webcasts 2009-11-10
- Why You Should Move Dev and Test to the Cloud
- In this webcast presenters show the significant advantages of using the cloud for development and testing. The attendee will discover how businesses are leveraging cloud computing to transform their dev and test processes.
- Tags: Webcast, Cloud, RightScale
- Webcasts 2009-10-15
- How Smart Enterprises Use the Cloud to Maximize Application Performance
- Real-world adoption of cloud computing is changing how to build, test, and deploy web applications. The attendee of this webcast will learn how to use the cloud to maximize the performance of the web application.
- Tags: Performance, Web Application, Cloud, RightScale, Cloud Computing, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts 2009-09-10
- Transitioning to the Cloud: Implications for Reliability, Redundancy & Recoverability
- The attendee will hear from leading experts in cloud computing to gain real-world insight into how their customers are using cloud computing and achieving new levels of backup, recovery and reliability. The attendee will learn how one can migrate the apps and data to the cloud in a way that's...
- Tags: Attendee, RightScale, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-07-23
- Create Secure Test and Dev Environments in the Cloud
- The presenter of this webcast shows how one can operate the entire application testing infrastructure in the cloud to save time and money - enabling to test more extensively and quickly hand off projects from development to operations.
- Tags: Cloud, RightScale
- Webcasts 2009-06-30
- Cloud Computing Basics
- The presenter discusses basic concepts behind cloud computing, shows real applications of the cloud in production today, and explores practical information one need to get started.
- Tags: RightScale, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-05-05
- How to Deploy and Manage Rails Apps on the Cloud
- The presenter of this webcast show how one can use RightScale and New Relic to launch and monitor the Rails app on the cloud.
- Tags: App, Cloud, RightScale, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components
- Webcasts 2009-04-09
- Implementing Powerful IT Search on the Cloud
- Cloud deployments are dynamic by design. Servers are launched and terminated, IP addresses can be dynamically re-assigned, and entire deployments are migrated onto the cloud, decommissioned, and then re-started at a later date. Traditional, static approaches to managing IT data simply aren't built for the cloud. Splunk provides an alternative...
- Tags: Information Technology, Cloud, RightScale, Splunk, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts 2009-02-10
- Deploying a Major Server Upgrade on the Cloud
- What happens when one need to perform a major software upgrade - either application software or underlying system software? This webcast demonstrate how much easier and more efficient it is to perform maintenance tasks on the cloud using the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. And this webcast also show how one...
- Tags: Webcast, Server Upgrade, Cloud, RightScale, Server Upgrades, Software Upgrade, Tools & Techniques, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- Webcasts 2009-01-22
- RightScale makes EC2 a better fit for SaaS
- RightScale makes EC2 a better fit for SaaSHardware vs hostingGreat topic and great points. AWS is a great advance and RightScale makes it more accessible. I would be careful about considering the easy configuration of a hardware stack as managed hosting however. There have been $72/month servers...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), AWS, Rightscale, EC2, software-as-a-service
- Discussion threads 2007-11-26
- RightScale makes EC2 a better fit for SaaS
- Amazon.com CTO Dr Werner Vogels' presentation at SIIA's OnDemand Summit see my previous posting was punctuated by a demonstration performed by Thorsten von Eicken, CTO of RightScale, a start-up that provides a platform to manage cloud computing on EC2. Von Eicken has an impeccable SaaS pedigree, having been chief architect...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Server, Amazon.com Inc., Service, RightScale, EC2, RightScale Software, Crystal Reports Implementation, Software As A Service (SaaS), Servers, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- Cloud Computing for Students
- Cloud Computing for StudentsRather absurd..."Without opportunities like this, most CS students graduate without ever writing anything bigger than an application written in one programming language that runs on a single machine."Why not? Most large universities have big, heterogeneous environments with Windows, Apple, and several flavors of Unix. As...
- Tags: SEARCH, Marketing research, search engine, search engine marketing, programming, Timev Media
- Discussion threads 2007-10-08
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- Beware the allure of Fool's Cloud
- no securityNo one in their right mind would send theircritical apps off to the cloud.Another pie in the sky to dream up getting ridof expenses only to make more expenses.Still no Security or...Public clouds are not secure. They are just like the regular Internet. Only put on the public cloud...
- Tags: Strategy, cloud provider, Clear, public cloud, security
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Rackspace launches cloud app partner portal
- Rackspace on Tuesday rolled out Cloud Tools, a repository of partner tools, applications and services for cloud computing. The marketplace puts apps and tools into four buckets: Monitoring and reporting; Development tools; Systems management; And client software. Cloud...
- Tags: Rackspace, Cloud Tools, Portals, Web Technology, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Productivity, Internet, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- Your Thoughts: How mature are cloud computing services?
- Enterprise IT infrastructure & operations professionals have many cloud computing technologies to choose from today, and new solutions seem to appear all the time. What are all these technologies? How do you categorize them? Which are mature and which need a lot of work? Forrester is kicking...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Gathering clouds brew up a storm
- With all kinds of cloud announcements promised at Microsoft PDC next week, rival vendors Amazon and Rackspace have tried to steal a little early thunder with some announcements of their own. This is the beginning of a titanic struggle to establish the top cloud providers, and this week's announcements have...
- Tags: Rackspace, Web Hosting, It Services, Servers, Internet, Hardware, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-10-25
- News to know: Oracle's Q4; Bill Gates' last day; Sticking with XP
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Yahoo silent on latest rumors of renewed Microsoft talks Dennis Howlett: Oracle's Q4 results analysis RightScale cloud management extends to MySQL Bill Gates: Hits and misses [Video] More...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Mary Jo Foley, Bill Gates, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Corporate Communications, 3G, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- RightScale cloud management extends to MySQL
- RightScale, which specializes in cloud computing management for the Amazon Web Services platform today announced support for MySQL Enterprise. The service, which goes live July 1, provides automated deployment, management and scaling, coupled with MySQL Enterprise premium-level support for large database applications. ...
- Tags: MySQL, Cloud Computing, Databases, Storage, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Squaring the cloud
- Hosting your application in the cloud got a lot easier yesterday â€" but there are still some gaps to fill for hosted application providers. Referring to Amazon's introduction of persistent storage volumes to its EC2 cloud computing service, Rightscale CEO Thorsten Von Eicken declared "clearly the cloud has just squared...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Storage Volume, Storage, Hardware, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Amazon EC2 offers a shortcut to SaaS
- Amazon EC2 offers a shortcut to SaaSAnd now EC2 adds storage volumesAmazon just announced storage volumes for EC2. I wrote about how it changes the game at http://blog.rightscale.com/2008/04/13/The Amazon folks are on a roll!With the addition of the storage volumes there's no doubt in my mind anymore: the cloud adopters...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), storage volume, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon EC2, EC2, storage, software-as-a-service
- Discussion threads 2008-04-14
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