- RightScale is a cloud management platform that provides abstraction, automation, and governance across public and private clouds. - It has around 250 staff across offices in several countries, including a new office opened in Australia, and has raised $47M in venture capital. - RightScale provides a single pane of glass for provisioning, monitoring, and managing infrastructure across multiple cloud providers.

1. Giri Fox
@girifox
gfox@rightscale.com
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2. What is RightScale?
Why I joined in Australia.
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3. 3#
RightScale
• ~250 staff
• October: opened office in Australia
• HQ in Southern California
• 25% of our people are ―cloudies‖
• Founded 2006
• $47M venture capital invested
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4. 4#
Customers
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5. 5#
Conceptual
Abstracts the
architecture to above
the IaaS.
Abstracts cloud
specifics.
Provision servers with
dynamic inputs such as
addresses (e.g. DNS, load
balancer), processes (e.g.
monitoring), user names
and locations (e.g. logs,
applications, databases)
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6. 6#
CONFIGURATION AUTOMATION GOVERNANCE
®
Public Clouds
Private Clouds
my network
my storage my servers
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7. 7#
Abstraction with Visibility and
Customisation Control
One place for
management and cost
Choose Your Automation
Own Clouds Massively scalable and
agile applications
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8. 8#
RightScale defined Cloud Management
• World‘s public cloud management platform
• Managing cloud deployments globally for
•
• More than launched
supported cloud providers and counting
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9. 9#
Midwest Chicago
London Amsterdam
Beijing
Seattle
Dublin
Oregon
Seoul
NYC Area
SF Area
Tokyo
DC Area
Las Vegas Southeast
Hong Kong
Hyderabad
Singapore
Dallas
São Paulo
soon
Public & Managed Clouds
Private Clouds
Amazon Web Services IDCF / Yahoo! Japan SoftLayer
Datapipe Korea Telecom Tata
Google Cloud Platform Logicworks UnGeo
HP Cloud Rackspace Windows Azure
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10. Clients
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11. 11#
Hybrid Cloud at Zynga
Zynga manages their public and
private/hybrid cloud (zCloud) with RightScale
– through a ‗single pane of glass‘
“zCloud also integrates with the
operational and management tools that
have proven critical to our business,
such as RightScale and CloudStack.”
Allan Leinwand, Zynga CTO Infrastructure Engineering
• 1,000 servers launched in 24 hours
• 100x increase in infrastructure in 2 years
• From 20% to 80% of workloads in
zCloud in 1 year
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12. 12#
IT at Scale at Pearson
Requirements:
• Large scale, 3M+ students
• Single-tenant SaaS
• Multi-cloud
• Fast customer POC & onboarding
Solution:
• Clone-able, customizable
environments
• Consistent dev and production
environments
• AWS and Rackspace
• Ability to easily pilot and test
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13. 13#
Running Rackspace at Behance
CTO and 1 developer manages
RightScale + Rackspace
―We have not had to look for systems
administrators because of RightScale.‖
- Chris Henry, CTO, Behance
Built an Activity Feed feature in weeks
on MongoDB. Process images using
RackConnect.
"We don't have to spend a lot of time or
money to experiment with new
applications.‖
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14. More detail
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15. 15#
Bridging Apps and Infrastructure
Dashboard API
Governance Controls – Access, Security, Reporting
Configuration Framework – ServerTemplates, RightScripts
Automation Engine – Monitoring, Alerting, Scaling
MultiCloud Platform – Provisioning
Cloud IaaS
software
Hypervisor IaaS
Hardware
Private Clouds Public Clouds
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16. 16#
MultiCloud Platform
Deployment-level abstraction
• Abstracts resources such as:
• Virtual machines (instances)
• Storage (object storage, block volumes)
• Virtual networks (firewalls, subnets, VPNs, etc)
• Abstracts providers:
• 9 public cloud providers
• 3 private cloud technologies
Self-service provisioning
• Click to launch or clone fully configured
servers and deployments
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17. 17#
Configuration Framework
Configuration Management
• ServerTemplates™, RightScripts, hosted Chef
• Reproducible: Predictable deployment
• Dynamic: Configuration from scripts at boot time
• Multi-cloud: Cloud agnostic and portable
• Modular: Role and behavior abstracted from
infrastructure
Service Catalog
• Edit and customize to specific use cases
• Limit usage to certain users and
sub-accounts
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18. 18#
MultiCloud Marketplace
Application stack store
• Published by RightScale, partners, and users
• Images, scripts, recipes, and macros
• Versioned and supported
License management
• ISV single billing and pay-per-hour billing
• Open source
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19. 19#
MultiCloud Marketplace
Cloud-ready stacks Pre-built by our ecosystem
App & Web Servers RightScale
Databases & Caches ISV Partners
And more… Community
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20. 20#
Automation Engine
Resource monitoring
• Server and application monitoring
• Alerts and escalations
Capacity management
• Auto-scaling with complex launch
rules
Deployment orchestration
• Database backup, failover, recovery
• Script execution
• Code deploys and patches
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21. 21#
Governance Controls
Identity and access management
• Authentication, roles, permissions
• Umbrella accounts and sharing
Policy management
• Infrastructure audits and tracking
• Event and user audit events
Usage and cost management
• Cost tracking and quotas
• Real-time run rate projections
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22. 22#
Try it out free: rightscale.com
• Provision, monitor, and automate across 8 public clouds
• 1 Account with 5 Users and Community Support
• Free account for 60 days — no credit card required
• Enjoy free monthly usage of up to ~5 small servers (c1.medium)
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23. Thank you!
Giri Fox
@girifox
gfox@rightscale.com
Awesome level of abstraction
Achieve new levels of resiliency & automation
Gain visibility and control
Free trial at rightscale.com
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