RightScale, Inc.

Industry	Software as a service
Founded	2006
Founder(s)	Thorsten von Eicken Michael Crandell Rafael Saavedra
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
Products	Cloud management
Website	www.rightscale.com

RightScale is a SaaS-based cloud computing management solution for managing cloud infrastructure across multiple IaaS providers.^[1] RightScale enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business-critical applications across public, private, and hybrid clouds. The company is based in Santa Barbara, California, with offices in Seattle, Singapore, Australia, and the UK.

RightScale partners with private cloud providers Citrix CloudStack^[2] and OpenStack^[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 Cloud^[5], Windows Azure^[6], and Google Compute Engine^[7] among others.

RightScale supports OpenStack, the open source cloud computing project founded by Rackspace and NASA.^[8]

History [edit]

RightScale was 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.^[9] He was joined by cofounders RightScale CEO Michael Crandell, who speaks and writes frequently on the subject of cloud computing and cloud computing management,^[10] and RightScale Vice President of Engineering Rafael Saavedra.^[11]

RightScale received $4.5M in venture capital in April 2008,^[12] $13M in December 2008^[13] and $25M in September 2010.^[14]

On July 18, 2012, RightScale announced its acquisition of the Scotland-based PlanForCloud.com (formerly ShopForCloud.com), a company that provides a free cloud cost forecasting service.^[15]

RightScale introduced the concept of the Cloud Maturity Model with the release of its second annual State of the Cloud Report on April 25, 2013.^[16]. The report findings are based on a RightScale survey of 625 IT decision makers across various industries and categorized according to the Cloud Maturity Model, which is an analysis and segmentation of companies based on their varying degrees of cloud adoption.

Partnerships with other companies [edit]

On November 5, 2012, RightScale announced that it was expanding its existing relationship with cloud hosting provider Rackspace to integrate with Rackspace Open Cloud products powered by OpenStack.^[17]

In February 2013, RightScale became the first cloud management company to resell Google Compute Engine public cloud infrastructure.^[18]

On April 15, 2013, RightScale announced that it would provide enterprise support for Windows Azure in conjunction with the Microsoft announcement of its general availability release of Windows Azure Infrastructure Services.^[19]

See also [edit]

Cloud Infrastructure Providers That RightScale Supports

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• CloudStack
• Datapipe
• Google Compute Engine
• HP Cloud Services
• IDCF
• OpenStack
• Rackspace Cloud
• SoftLayer
• Windows Azure

References [edit]

External links [edit]

• Official site