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RightScale, whose management platform that acts as an integrator for companies using public cloud resources, today announced its official support for the OpenStack project, and announced it will support customer deployments into Rackspace's OpenStack-powered cloud.

The moves represent further momentum for the OpenStack project and signal an acknowledgement by RightScale to include open source choices for customers.

"Enterprise interest in OpenStack continues to increase," says RightScale CEO Michael Crandell. Rackspace's open source cloud aligns closely to the OpenStack trunk code, which minimizes proprietary extensions, he says.

RightScale already works as an integrator with a variety of other public and private cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, Google Compute Engine, Datapipe, HP, Logicworks, SoftLayer and Tata. On the private cloud side, RightScale can be used to manage workloads on the OpenStack, CloudStack and Eucalyptus platforms, all of which are open source.

RightScale previously supported Rackspace's legacy cloud offering, but this summer Rackspace launched a new OpenStack-powered cloud, which it plans to devote most of its resources to advancing in the future. RightScale announced today support for Rackspace's OpenStack cloud. >>Read more

Source: NetworkWorld

Hoping to make cloud computing more palatable for large-scale organizations, RightScale today announced a host of new security, management, and governance features for its cloud-management platform. Among the notable additions is support for single sign-on (SSO) and SAML; a reporting capability for granularly tracking cloud-resource usage and costs; and a pledge to ensure its library of ServerTemplates remain up-to-date and backwards-compatible for at least 18 months.

The improvements aim to help IT departments bring under their purview the cloud services that employees have already started using -- at times without IT's blessing or knowledge, according to Phil Cox, director of security and compliance at RightScale. Developers, for example, may open up Amazon Web Services accounts to test their code and expense it, rather than waiting what may feel like six to eight weeks for the server team to free up machines.

Not only does that unmanaged cloud activity expose organization to security threats; it can lead to unanticipated costs as different users, departments, and business units rack up cloud charges. "The current state of cloud computing is, it's a runaway train with lots of consumption occurring everywhere," said Michael Crandell, CEO at RightScale. "Companies are trying to get their arms around it, so as to continue to enable agile consumption but also to have some governance over it from a security perspective and also from a cost-tracking perspective."

That fact that security continues to be a sore point among companies contemplating cloud adoption is none too surprising considering the porous nature of the cloud. To that end, RightScale has added support for SSO, letting companies use their existing directory services or identity management products, including Active Directory and LDAP. RightScale said it now supports SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language), an industry standard that enables SSO. Additionally, the company has teamed up with Ping Identity to provide identity federation out of the box. >>Read more

Source: InfoWorld

RightScale is adding OpenStack and SoftLayer to the list of cloud services that can be managed from its RightScale Cloud Management Platform.

The SoftLayer support is planned for the first quarter next year, and the OpenStack support will follow by the end of the first half, RightScale CEO and founder Michael Crandell said in an interview. That's a conservative estimate, he added, meaning the OpenStack support could come sooner.

RightScale sells tools to design, deploy and clone server environments in the cloud, and to manage and monitor those servers even across different cloud platforms from different service providers. Its customers include Zynga, CBS Interactive and Intercontinental Hotel Group.

Each cloud platform has its own unique architecture, for example the way its storage systems are designed, so RightScale has to develop a version of its software for each cloud environment. Today it works with Amazon Web Services, Cloud.com, Rackspace, Eucalyptus, Japan's IDC Frontier, and one or two others. >>Read more

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