Cloud Computing: RightScale to Support Windows Azure Infrastructure Services
April 19, 2013
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
Following Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) announcement of Windows Azure Infrastructure Services, RightScale isn’t missing a beat. The cloud management solutions provider is adding Azure to its list of supported cloud platforms. RightScale is making quite the to-do about its Azure support, as well, with a program it’s calling "Get Your App to Azure" (catchy, ain’t it?). With the new program, RightScale is going to help Azure customers accelerate application development on the Microsoft cloud platform with its multicloud management platform.
"RightScale has the experience and the technology to get companies up and running quickly on Windows Azure Infrastructure Services," said Michael Crandell, CEO of RightScale, in a prepared statement. "Enterprises want IaaS choice. RightScale enables our customers to provision, configure, and automate individual servers or entire deployments on Windows Azure in minutes."…
With Azure Infrastructure Services, Microsoft is gearing up to take on AWS in the IaaS market, but the Redmond-based technology giant also introduced a new pricing scheme for its services to compete with AWS (and likely others) on a cost basis…
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