Kent Mitchell, Director of Product Marketing at Zend, led this session at the RightScale User Conference 2010 in Santa Clara. Session Abstract: The cloud is the new “holy grail” for a lot of people. The cloud enables sites to ramp up new servers for increased load and then ramp down servers when the load decreases. This minimizes upfront costs and provides “pay as you go” cost structure. This scenario is very compelling, especially for startups where budgets are tight. But it also presents some challenges such as making sure the new servers are identical to the existing servers, monitoring the ever-changing cluster, and retaining critical problem data when servers ramp down. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how using Zend Server Cluster Manager together with the RightScale Cloud Management Platform provide solutions for managing cloud-based, highly available PHP server clusters. You can download the presentation slides at http://slideshare.net/rightscale/ha-ph-clusters-in-the-cloud. We hope you will join us in NYC, June 2011!

Michael Crandell, CEO at RightScale, led this session at the RightScale User Conference 2010 in Santa Clara. Session Abstract: Are you facing internal resistance deploying company projects to the cloud? You may already be a convert to the benefits of leveraging the cloud for your business. Its easy to have faith in cloud projects when youre surrounded by other believers in conferences like this one – but at home, you may be facing internal resistance ranging from inertia to skepticism to opposition. To be fair, its reasonable for everyone to expect that cloud projects are well-justified and offer tangible benefits. This session will empower you with the tools, data, and approaches – from pilot projects to ROI analysis – that you can use to help win over colleagues to accelerate cloud deployments in your company. You can download the presentation slides at http://slideshare.net/rightscale/promoting-cloud-inside-your-company. We hope you will join us in NYC, June 2011!

Brian Adler, Solutions Consultant at RightScale, led this session at the RightScale User Conference 2010 in Santa Clara. Session Abstract: RightScale has extensive experience building scalable websites from the ground up. More importantly, we have invaluable experience rescuing companies who have come to us after their self-built websites failed to scale when hit with unexpected traffic levels. In this session, well review reference architectures and share best practices from proven, scalable websites deployed in the cloud. Additionally, well cover alternate methods for load balancing along with techniques to improve your web applications availability and reliability. You can download the presentation slides at http://slideshare.net/rightscale/building-scalable-websites-for-the-cloud. We hope you will join us in NYC, June 2011!

Josh Fraser, VP Business Development at RightScale, led this session at the RightScale User Conference 2010 in Santa Clara. Session Abstract: Enterprises are increasingly turning to cloud computing solutions to increase business agility and decrease costs. However, most enterprises have unique needs for their cloud projects such as corporate IT processes, security requirements and standardized controls. In this session, well provide an overview of RightScales multi-cloud architecture and several effective enterprise examples for deploying in AWS and private cloud environments. Topics presented in this session will include self-service IT, consumer applications, development and test, core applications (e.g. business intelligence), security and user management. You can download the presentation slides at http://slideshare.net/rightscale/cloud-computing-for-the-enterprise. We hope you will join us in NYC, June 2011!

Rafael Saavedra, VP Engineering at RightScale, led this session at the RightScale User Conference 2010 in Santa Clara. Session Abstract: Just like our customers, RightScale runs in the cloud and requires the best platform to automate operations. As such, RightScale uses RightScale to manage RightScale. Our complete infrastructure – development, testing, staging, and production – consists of servers that are configured, launched and managed by the RightScale Platform. In this talk, well present insights into how our different systems are set up and managed through the RightScale dashboard, how we organize the different production deployments, how we roll out major and minor upgrades to our infrastructure, and what best practices we follow during normal and emergency operations. You can download the presentation slides at http://slideshare.net/rightscale/managing-rightscale-on-rightscale. We hope you will join us in NYC, June 2011!

Rav Ahuja, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, and Growth Markets at IBM Information Management Software, led this session at the RightScale User Conference 2010 in Santa Clara. Session Abstract: Development and testing is one of the leading use cases in cloud computing. Even large enterprises with stringent security requirements are using public clouds for developing and testing their applications. IBM and RightScale have partnered to make the process of developing and testing your database applications quick and efficient – and in this session, well demonstrate how. Examples will include spinning up Ruby on Rails and Java-based application stacks with DB2 and WebSphere. Well also demonstrate scaling these systems on the fly, adding high availability and then cloning them. You can download the presentation slides at http://slideshare.net/rightscale/rapidly-develop-and-test-your-database-applications. We hope you will join us in NYC, June 2011!

Rav Ahuja, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, and Growth Markets at IBM Information Management Software, led this session at the RightScale User Conference 2010 in Santa Clara. Session Abstract: Development and testing is one of the leading use cases in cloud computing. Even large enterprises with stringent security requirements are using public clouds for developing and testing their applications. IBM and RightScale have partnered to make the process of developing and testing your database applications quick and efficient – and in this session, well demonstrate how. Examples will include spinning up Ruby on Rails and Java-based application stacks with DB2 and WebSphere. Well also demonstrate scaling these systems on the fly, adding high availability and then cloning them. You can download the presentation slides at http://slideshare.net/rightscale/rapidly-develop-and-test-your-database-applications. We hope you will join us in NYC, June 2011!

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You can download the slides for this presentation at http://slideshare.net/rightscale/rightscale-user-conference-james-j-ahn-technical-architect-american-girl. We hope you will join us in NYC, June 2011!

You can download the slides for this presentation at http://slideshare.net/rightscale/rightscale-user-conference-david-lowe-sr-technical-director-eai. We hope you will join us in NYC, June 2011!