RightScale
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RightScale is a web based
cloud computing
management platform for managing cloud infrastructure from multiple providers. The RightScale platform enables the management of public, private and hybrid clouds. The company, which is based in Santa Barbara, California
, partners with private cloud providers Cloud.com and Eucalyptus Systems to help enterprises more easily build and manage their own private clouds. RightScale also enables users to migrate workloads between their private clouds and public clouds operated by Amazon Web Services
(AWS), Rackspace
and Tata
.
RightScale received $4.5M in venture capital
in April 2008, $13M in December 2008 and $25M in September 2010.
Web application
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cloud computing
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
management platform for managing cloud infrastructure from multiple providers. The RightScale platform enables the management of public, private and hybrid clouds. The company, which is based in Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...
, partners with private cloud providers Cloud.com and Eucalyptus Systems to help enterprises more easily build and manage their own private clouds. RightScale also enables users to migrate workloads between their private clouds and public clouds operated by Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is a collection of remote computing services that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com...
(AWS), Rackspace
Rackspace
Rackspace US, Inc. is an IT hosting company based in San Antonio, Texas. The company also has offices in Australia, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Hong Kong, and data centers operating in Texas, Illinois, Virginia, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong in late 2008...
and Tata
Tata
- Companies :* Tata Group, India's largest business group and multinational company** List of entities associated with Tata Group- People :* Tata family, an influential family of India owning the Tata Group** Jamsetji Tata, known as the father of Indian industry...
.
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. He was joined by RightScale CEO Michael Crandell, who speaks and writes frequently on the subject of cloud computing and cloud computing management.RightScale received $4.5M in venture capital
Venture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
in April 2008, $13M in December 2008 and $25M in September 2010.
See also
- Cloud infrastructure
- Amazon Elastic Compute CloudAmazon Elastic Compute CloudAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a central part of Amazon.com's cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services . EC2 allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications...
- FlexiScaleFlexiScaleFlexiScale is a utility computing platform launched by XCalibre Communications in the summer of 2007, and subsequently acquired by Flexiant. Launched shortly after Amazon's EC2 service, it was Europe's first and the world's second cloud computing platform. Users are able to create, start, and stop...
- GoGridGoGridGoGrid is a cloud infrastructure service, hosting Linux and Windows virtual machines managed by a multi-server control panel and a RESTful API. GoGrid is privately held and competes in the dedicated hosting space against Rackspace and in the cloud computing hosting space with those listed in the...
- SkytapSkytapSkytap, Inc., founded in 2006, is a cloud computing provider that provides virtual lab automation as a cloud service. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington...
- EucalyptusEucalyptus (computing)Eucalyptus is a software platform for the implementation of private cloud computing on computer clusters. There is an open-core enterprise edition and an open-source edition. Currently, it exports a user-facing interface that is compatible with the Amazon EC2 and S3 services but the platform is...
- ScalrScalrScalr is an open source web based cloud computing platform for managing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. The project was started in April 2008 by Intridea to provide scalable infrastructure for MediaPlug and is now maintained at Google Code...