{"id":739304,"date":"2013-02-25T15:54:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T20:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=613871"},"modified":"2013-02-25T15:54:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T20:54:18","slug":"exclusive-rightscale-is-first-to-resell-support-google-compute-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/739304","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: RightScale is first to resell, support Google Compute Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s something to ponder for those who don’t see Google Compute Engine<\/a> as ready for primetime: RightScale will start reselling and providing first-line support of the Google public cloud infrastructure. This is big news. RightScale prides itself on providing cross-cloud monitoring, alerts and management — for Amazon Web Services, for Rackspace, for HP Cloud and now Google Compute Engine or GCE. RightScale also works across private and hybrid cloud environments — an important consideration for financial services and other companies still wary of deploying in shared public cloud environments.<\/p>

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“People can come to us for onboarding and for full 24 \/7 support to add to [support options] that Google just offered,” RightScale CEO Michael Crandell<\/a>\u00a0said in an interview. In fact, Google last week announced its first formalized tiered support offerings<\/a> for GCE. RightScale can also help companies design and architect their applications.<\/p>

“That means a company can come to us as a one stop shop and buy Google compute time as well as RightScale in one package,” Crandell said. The news comes a week after Amazon announced its own OpsWorks cloud configuration and management tool <\/a>that competes with some of what RightScale offers, but Crandell said the GCE deal just continues RightScale’s strategy of supporting all the major cloud platforms.<\/p>

It also means that a customer can get a single dashboard for all of its cloud deployments.<\/p>

“OpsWorks is a validation that something more is needed atop these cloud infrastructure platforms.It does overlap with RightScale but it’s a single-cloud solution and our experience with customers is that they\u2019re increasingly concerned about supporting multiple options,” he said.<\/p>

It’s true that AWS is the 800-lb. gorilla in public cloud infrastructure. But it is also true that more and better competition is coming online all the time — from Rackspace, HP and other OpenStack players, as well as more cloud options from telcos and legacy hosting players.<\/p>

That, plus issues with Amazon’s US-East data center farm<\/a>, means more companies are evaluating multi-cloud options. While some may not see GCE, which officially launched in June, <\/a>as wet behind the ears, conventional wisdom holds that Google is one of a handful of companies that can compete with AWS on sheer scale.<\/p>

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