RightScale Inc., a demonstrated leader in enterprise
universal cloud management,
today announced that it was among the select companies invited to
participate in a report by Forrester Research, "The Forrester Wave
:
Hybrid Cloud Management Solutions, Q1 2016" that was released on January
8, 2016.
RightScale was named a leader in Hybrid Cloud Management solutions
and had the top score of all vendors in the strategy category. The full
report is available for download from the RightScale web site: www.rightscale.com/forrester-wave.
"We believe that Forrester's 2016 Wave on hybrid cloud management
solutions is validation of the work RightScale has done over the past 9
years to build a robust, scalable and feature-rich platform," said
Michael Crandell, co-founder and CEO of RightScale. "Because of the
unique depth and breadth of the RightScale product suite, RightScale is
being used by large enterprises across a variety of verticals, including
financial services, healthcare, media and entertainment, retail, and
technology industries."
Forrester on the Hybrid Cloud Management Space
As it worked on this assessment of 11 significant hybrid cloud
management solutions, Forrester interviewed more than 30 vendor and user
companies. It concluded that enterprise buyers want both developer
productivity and cloud infrastructure control.
Quotes from the The Forrester Wave: Hybrid Cloud Management Solutions, Q1 2016 report:
- "The hybrid cloud management solutions market is mature and growing
because more developers and I&O professionals see it as a way to
address the needs of a growing multi-cloud portfolio. These solutions
help developers build cloud apps faster and easier while giving I&O
pros the governance and control they need to enforce usage and cost
policies."
- "As the use of hybrid clouds expands, the leading vendor solutions
will offer developers a rich library of app and infrastructure
templates, APIs, and a choice of multiple public and private clouds.
They will also give I&O pros strong policy-based automation,
orchestration, and governance tools. The best will do both equally
well."
Forrester on RightScale
To assess strategy, Forrester examined each vendor in terms of product
vision, execution roadmap, market approach, and partner ecosystem.
RightScale received the top strategy score of the 11 vendors in the
strategy category.
Quotes from the The Forrester Wave: Hybrid Cloud Management Solutions, Q1 2016 report:
- "RightScale led the pack with support for many different cloud
platform basic and advanced services, the broadest breadth and depth of
available cross-cloud templates, very mature governance capabilities,
embedded cost analytics, and the most widely used and praised hybrid
cloud APIs and external tool integrations. Customers are very loyal,
praise the vendor's support staff, and repeatedly called out its
market-leading developer-friendly APIs and unwavering cloud-agnostic
strategy ("they don't compete at the platform layer")." - The Forrester
Wave: Hybrid Cloud Management Solutions, Q1 2016
- "The RightScale Cloud Portfolio Management suite includes a
self-service portal, a cloud management module, and a cloud analytics
(cost management) module, all offered as software-as-a-service (SaaS).
RightScale was one of the earliest independent cloud management vendors
and created the ServerTemplate and, later, the Cloud Application
Template format." - The Forrester Wave: Hybrid Cloud Management
Solutions, Q1 2016