RightScale offers a cloud management platform that helps engineers design, deploy, and manage business-critical applications on the cloud. The platform sits on top of Amazon Web Services and provides a simple dashboard, auto-scaling of servers by usage, and pre-built installation templates for common software stacks. It is particularly useful for small to medium-sized businesses that lack development resources to transition to cloud computing. RightScale supports both scalable websites and complex grid applications and reports hundreds of thousands of deployments launched on its platform. The company raised $25 million in the latest financing and will use the proceeds for global expansion and to grow an ecosystem of third-party publishers. This round brings RightScale's total funding to $42.5 million. RightScale offers a simple dashboard interface that fits on top of Amazon Web Services to help small-to-medium businesses transition to cloud computing. Its services include auto-scaling of servers according to usage load and pre-built installation templates for common software stacks. The company has launched over 200,000 servers during its two-year existence. This announcement accompanies a $13 million Series B, its second round of venture capital funding. The round was led by Index Ventures and included Benchmark Capital, with Index partner Danny Rimer joining the board. No revenue figures were disclosed in the article. RightScale offers an online dashboard and automation tools that let businesses transition websites to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), control server clusters, and auto-scale capacity. The company emphasizes a visual interface and runs its own servers to continuously monitor customer deployments. RightScale serves startups initially and reports 70 paying customers plus thousands using a free service. Management contrasts the company’s flexible, transparent approach with more closed offerings like Google App Engine. The new funding will be used to expand beyond Amazon’s services, including features such as automatic MySQL setup on the cloud. RightScale is based in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Total raised

$43M

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3

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Sep 2010