Flexera 2020 State of the Cloud Report Reveals Major Increase in Cloud Spending Due to COVID-19
Flexera has released its 2020 State of the Cloud Report, which provides insights into use of the cloud by enterprises and SMBs, the cloud strategies being adopted by leading companies, and cloud spending trends. The report draws on the views of 750 technical professionals from a wide range of industry sectors who provided their insights on the current state of the cloud and how they have transformed their businesses through the...
2018 State of the Cloud Report Released by RightScale
RightScale has released its 2018 State of the Cloud Report. This is the seventh year that the cloud management firm has produced the report, which is based on the results of the largest survey of businesses on use of the cloud. This year the survey was conducted on 997 tech professionals from large enterprises and small enterprises, operating in a broad range of industries. The report reveals average cloud spending by enterprises, how...
RightScale Predicts $10 Billion Will be Wasted on Cloud Resources in 2018
Enterprises are investing more money in the cloud, but a large percentage of cloud spending is wasted on unused and underutilized cloud resources. RightScale predicts that more than $10 billion will be wasted on unused/underutilized cloud resources in the next 12 months. Part of the problem has been a lack of support from cloud providers who have failed to help their customers reduce unnecessary cloud spending. The situation is...
Cloud Vendors to Watch in 2018
Businesses in all industry verticals are now taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the cloud, whether for IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS. The cloud allows businesses to develop software and applications much more quickly and gain a technical edge over competitors. Over the past 12 months, Infrastructure-as-a-Service has seen tremendous growth, with the InformationWeek 2017 State of the Cloud survey indicating IaaS use has risen from...
RightScale Announces General Availability of its Optima Cloud Cost Management and Optimization Solution
RightScale Optima, the collaborative cloud cost management and optimization platform for enterprises, has now been released and is generally available. The solution allows enterprises to manage their cloud spend in a deeper and more predictive way than was previously possible. The new collaborative cost management and optimization solution incorporates existing analysis, reporting, and forecasting functionality for AWS, Azure, Google...
RightScale Shortlisted for 2017 SIIA CODiE Award
RightScale has been named a finalist in the Best Cloud Management category for the upcoming 2017 SIIA CODiE Awards – The only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology’s top products and services. The SIIA CODiE Awards Program has been running more than 30 years and recognizes the finest software products and services on the market. The awards program covers two broad categories – Business and Education...
Spotinst and RightScale Partnership Helps Customers Automate Use of EC2 Spot Instances
A new Rightscale and Spotinst partnership has been announced, which will see the Spotinst Elastigroup AWS spot instance management platform integrated into RightScale’s universal cloud management platform. The partnership will allow RightScale customers to take advantage of the lower cost of spot instances to make further savings on their cloud bills. Spotinst is the leading workload management platform provider for Amazon EC2 spot...