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What is RightScale?Why I joined in Australia.
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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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Customers
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ConceptualAbstracts 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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my network
my serversmy storage
CONFIGURATION AUTOMATION GOVERNANCE
Private CloudsPublic Clouds
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Abstraction with Customisation
AutomationMassively scalable and agile applications
Choose Your Own Clouds
Visibility and ControlOne place for management and cost
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RightScale defined Cloud Management• World’s #1 public cloud management platform
• Managing cloud deployments globally for 6 years• 45,000+ users• More than 4.6M servers launched
• 12 supported cloud providers and counting
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Amazon Web Services
Datapipe
Google Cloud Platform
HP Cloud
Singapore
Hong Kong
Tokyo
Dallas
DC Area
NYC AreaSF Area
Seattle
Chicago
Dublin
London Amsterdam
Seoul
Beijing
Hyderabad
Private CloudsPublic & Managed
Clouds
Oregon
São Paulo
SoftLayer
Tata
UnGeo
Windows Azure
Las Vegas
IDCF / Yahoo! Japan
Korea Telecom
Logicworks
Rackspace
Southeast
Midwest
soon
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Clients
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Hybrid Cloud at Zynga
• 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
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
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IT at Scale at PearsonRequirements: • 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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Running Rackspace at 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.”
CTO and 1 developer manages RightScale + Rackspace “We have not had to look for systems administrators because of RightScale.” - Chris Henry, CTO, Behance
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More detail
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IaaS
Bridging Apps and Infrastructure
Dashboard
Governance Controls – Access, Security, Reporting
MultiCloud Platform – Provisioning
Automation Engine – Monitoring, Alerting, Scaling
Configuration Framework – ServerTemplates, RightScripts
Hardware
Hypervisor
Cloud IaaS software
API
Private Clouds Public Clouds
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MultiCloud PlatformDeployment-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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Configuration FrameworkConfiguration 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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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
MultiCloud Marketplace
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App & Web Servers
Community
ISV Partners
RightScale
MultiCloud MarketplaceCloud-ready stacks Pre-built by our ecosystem
Databases & Caches
And more…
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Automation EngineResource 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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Governance ControlsIdentity 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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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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Thank you!
Awesome level of abstractionAchieve new levels of resiliency & automationGain visibility and controlFree trial at rightscale.com
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