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Cloud Cost Analysis: How Much Could Wikipedia Save in the Cloud? 21 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
Our blog posts on cloud costs for production implementations get a lot of attention, but we don't publish many of them because few large enterprises are willing to publicly share details of their infr...
Cloud Strategists See Enterprises Gaining Confidence with Security 19 Aug 2013 | 05:53 pm
The RightScale State of the Cloud Report found that the number of cloud users who cite security as a significant challenge decreased from 38 percent among those least experienced in cloud to just 18 p...
Architecting OpenStack for High Availability 17 Aug 2013 | 12:22 am
Reliability and availability are challenges for any production IT deployment, but when it comes to cloud architecture, high availability (HA) is a key consideration. Enterprises that are deploying Ope...
RightScale and Chef Integration: Cooking Up Better ServerTemplates 15 Aug 2013 | 10:30 pm
As part of the RightScale "bring your own configuration management" (BYOCM) strategy that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, we will roll out a major upgrade to our Chef implementation in RightScale...
20 Ways to Fine-Tune Your Cloud Environment 14 Aug 2013 | 10:08 pm
A regular tune-up can help any enterprise improve its cloud operations and potentially save money. Why does even the most well-architected deployment need a tune-up? Because over time deployments grow...
Preview: Bring Your Own Configuration Management from RightScale 31 Jul 2013 | 12:28 am
Cloud computing and automated configuration management are a natural match. The cloud makes it trivially easy to spin up servers on demand, but it would be a prohibitively expensive and likely error-p...
Cloud Strategists Weigh In: Top Trends in Cloud Computing 25 Jul 2013 | 05:56 pm
What are the top trends in cloud computing today? We asked some of the cloud professionals in attendance at our recent RightScale Compute conference to share what they considered to be the top trends....
RightScale PlanForCloud Analyzes $1 Billion in Cloud Cost Forecasts 23 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
It’s a paradox: Forecasting enterprise cloud costs is a hard task to do well, yet understanding all the costs up front is one of the main requirements of a successful cloud initiative. Last year, we l...
Happy Third Birthday, OpenStack! 19 Jul 2013 | 08:00 pm
Happy birthday OpenStack — you’re three years old today! Like most three-year-olds, you’re a bundle of energy and you’ve accomplished a lot in a short time. Congratulations to the OpenStack Foundation...
Achieving Code Compliance in an Agile Environment 17 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
IT shops today implement speedy and dynamic application development techniques to meet business demands. You can’t visit an IT-related website these days without being peppered with such terms as clou...
