RightScale
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| Industry | Software as a Service |
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| Founded | 2006 |
| Founder(s) | Thorsten von Eicken Rafael H. Saavedra Michael Crandell |
| Headquarters | 402 East Gutierrez Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Michael Crandell, CEO Ida Kane, CFO Thorsten von Eicken, CTO Rafael H. Saavedra, VP Engineering Josh Fraser, SVP Business Development Chris Fowler, VP Services |
| Products | Cloud Management |
| Website | www.rightscale.com |
RightScale is a web based cloud computing management solution for managing cloud infrastructure from multiple providers.[1] RightScale enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business-critical applications across public, private, and hybrid clouds. The company, which is based in Santa Barbara, California, partners with private cloud providers Citrix CloudStack[2] and Eucalyptus Systems[3] to help enterprises more easily build and manage their private clouds.[4] RightScale also enables users to manage hybrid cloud infrastructure by migrating workloads between their private clouds and public clouds operated by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rackspace and Tata.[5]
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[edit] History
RightScale was co-founded by Thorsten von Eicken, a former tenured professor of computer science at Cornell University who left academia to manage systems architecture for Expertcity, the startup SaaS company that became Citrix Online.[6] He was joined by RightScale CEO Michael Crandell, who speaks and writes frequently on the subject of cloud computing and cloud computing management.[7]
RightScale received $4.5M in venture capital in April 2008,[8] $13M in December 2008[9] and $25M in September 2010.[10]
[edit] See also
- Cloud Computing Management platform
[edit] References
- ^ RightScale Makes Multiple Clouds Work
- ^ Citrix FOSS Cloud Infrastructure Extends to VMware, Oracle
- ^ Eucalyptus Private Cloud Software Available on RightScale myCloud
- ^ RightScale Brings Zynga-Like Hybrid Clouds to the Masses
- ^ Cloud.com Powers RightScale’s myCloud Private Cloud Offering
- ^ Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale
- ^ How to Ensure Business Continuity in the Cloud
- ^ Cloud Computing Startup Gets $4.5M Venture Funding
- ^ Cloud Expo: RightScale adds RackSpace, Eucalyptus to its hybrid clouds
- ^ Cloud Management Platform RightScale Raises $25 Million
- Woods, Dan (2008-11-25). "Disaster-Proofing The Cloud — Forbes.com". www.forbes.com. http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/24/cio-cloud-disaster-tech-cio-cx_dw_1125cloud.html. Retrieved 2008-11-25.
- Williamson, Alan. "Cloud Computing: Exclusive Q&A with Cloud Computing CEO Michael Crandell — RightScale's head honcho on Achieving Profitability in the Rapidly Advancing Cloud Market". Linux. http://linux.sys-con.com/node/784020. Retrieved 2008-01-16.
- Fitzgerald, Michael. "Technology: When the Forecast Calls for Clouds — Is cloud computing right for your company?". www.inc.com. http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080301/traffics-up-websites-down.html. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
- Wainewright, Phil. "RightScale makes EC2 a better fit for SaaS". ZDNet. http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=417. Retrieved 2007-11-20.
- Howlett, Dennis. "RightScale cloud management extends to MySQL". ZDNet. http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=193. Retrieved 2008-06-28.
- Cogswell, Jeff. "Page 2 - RightScale Eases Developing on Amazon EC2". www.eweek.com. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/RightScale-Eases-Developing-on-Amazon-EC2/1/. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- Babcock, Charles. "RightScale Launches App Store For Infrastructure". www.informationweek.com. http://www.informationweek.com/news/cloud-computing/infrastructure/229900165. Retrieved 2011-06-03.
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