RightScale Announces Customers and Industry Analyst to Speak at Conference in New York

SANTA BARBARA, CA--(Marketwire - May 25, 2011) - RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced an impressive lineup of speakers for its fourth RightScale User Conference being held on June 8. The conference will feature RightScale CEO Michael Crandell and guest Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst Frank E. Gillett and will include presentations by several RightScale customers who will share best practices for architecting cloud infrastructures in today's dynamic marketplace. The RightScale conference is co-located with the Cloud Computing Expo being held at the Javits Conference Center in New York. Registration for the conference is open now -- attendees of the RightScale Conference will also receive a complimentary full session pass to the Cloud Computing Expo.

In addition to the scheduled speakers, the user conference will allow you to connect with other RightScale users, attend informative breakout sessions and meet the RightScale team. RightScale will also be hosting a cocktail reception following the conference on the rooftop of the Gansevoort Hotel overlooking the beautiful New York City skyline.

Registration, a complete schedule and rundown of activities and breakout sessions can be found on the RightScale User Conference website.

Scheduled speakers include:

• RightScale CEO Michael Crandell
• Forrester Research, Inc. Vice President and Principal Analyst Frank E. Gillett
• Amdocs Chief Architect for Cloud Computing Anders Rolff
• Pearson Director of Technology Architecture Andy West
• Trader Media Group CTO Tim Jones
• Crowd Fusion CEO Brian Alvey

A sampling of scheduled breakout sessions:

• Advancing Cloud Initiatives and Removing Barriers to Adoption
  - Michael Crandell, CEO, RightScale, and Brian Adler, Solutions Architecture, RightScale
• Enterprise-Ready Private and Hybrid Cloud Computing Today
  - Righ Wolski, Founder and CTO, Eucalyptus
• Amazon Web Services Security and Compliance
  - Jeff Barr, Senior Web Services Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
• Achieving Massive Scalability and High Availability for PHP Applications in the Cloud
  - Joshua Solomin, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Zend Technologies
• Optimizing Your Cloud Applications in RightScale
  - Rafael Saavedra, Vice President of Engineering, RightScale
• Multi-Cloud Roadmap: Architecting Hybrid Environments for Maximum Results
  - Peder Ulander, CMO, Cloud.com
• Zero to Cloud in Less Than 60 Minutes
  - Elon Bar-Evan, Technical Trainer, RightScale

Visit the RightScale website for information of the conference, speakers, full schedule and more.

About RightScale
RightScale is the leader in cloud computing management. Founded in 2006, the company offers a fully automated cloud management platform that enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business critical applications across multiple clouds with complete control and portability. The RightScale Cloud Management Platform is delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS) and is available in a range of editions. To date, thousands of deployments and over two million servers have been launched on the RightScale platform for leading organizations such as PBS, Harvard University, Zynga and Sling Media. To learn more about RightScale, please go to http://www.RightScale.com.

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