Our brand new partnership with RightScale is a great step towards cloud interoperability and it’s been getting plenty of media coverage, but in case you’ve missed all that here’s what it’s all about.
Essentially RightScale is providing a one-stop shop for managing and provisioning different types of clouds. RightScale is first in the industry to offer an integrated management dashboard, where applications can be deployed once and managed across multiple clouds. With RightScale a FlexiScale customer can deploy an application just once then manage it trans-cloud to run the app on Amazon, GoGrid or Mosso – easy as that.
Deploying scalable, reliable applications from scratch in a multi-cloud world is a time consuming and expensive task. As a result, most organisations do not have the expertise or resources to deploy and manage multi-cloud computing applications cost effectively and according to best practices. With RightScale’s platform, any organisation can easily tap the enormous power of cloud computing for a virtually infinite, affordable, “pay-as-you-go” IT infrastructure.
RightScale’s offerings provide rapid deployment, a dynamically scalable infrastructure to meet varying traffic and loads, and require minimal resources using automated tools and a centralised web dashboard for easy management backed by best practices and professional services.
Without this new ability to move swiftly and easily between platforms some customers could feel locked in and much more hesitant to try and use cloud computing. RightScale’s partnership initiative is a great example of how having near interoperability between systems will enable customers to be less scared of moving to a new technology, which is great for everyone. It means the industry can and will grow quicker than if it was only a handful of individual companies providing distinct services that weren’t compatible with each other. That sounds good to me.
Tony
BTW – For details on pricing and different product options, just call RightScale, Inc. at 1-866-720-0208.
About RightScale, Inc.
RightScale, Inc. is the leader in cloud computing management. RightScale delivers the management platform, tools and expertise that enable companies to create scalable web solutions on cloud computing services that are reliable, easy to manage, and affordable. Funded by Benchmark Capital, RightScale is a private company headquartered in Santa Barbara, California. To learn more about RightScale, or sign up for a free edition of its automated management system, visit www.RightScale.com.
