RightScale Inc., a demonstrated leader in enterprise
cloud portfolio management,
today announced the RightScale Universal Cloud Appliance (UCA), a
lightweight, software appliance that offers an extensible way to
integrate the RightScale Cloud Portfolio Management platform with any
infrastructure resource pool - including cloud, virtualized, and
bare-metal environments.
RightScale Universal Cloud Appliance enables single-pane-of-glass
management of workloads on virtually any infrastructure. New supported
environments include:
- Bare-metal server farms
- Virtualized environments such as KVM and Hyper-V
- All clouds previously not supported by RightScale such as vCloud Air and Digital Ocean
"RightScale enterprise customers use a wide range of infrastructure
options, from existing virtualized and bare-metal datacenter
environments to a variety of public and private clouds," said Kim
Weins, VP of Marketing at RightScale. "Now our enterprise customers can
use RightScale across any infrastructure that they run - any cloud, any
VM, any server - by leveraging the Universal Cloud Appliance.
RightScale customers will get a single point for visibility, control,
monitoring, cost tracking, reporting, automation, and more."
RightScale UCA is delivered as a software appliance that can be
downloaded and run on any server that has connectivity to the target
resource pool. UCA provides a variety of out-of-the-box capabilities
that can be leveraged to manage individual servers and a plugin model
allows for RightScale, partners or customers to extend the functionality
to include provisioning new resources on any platform. Combined with
the RightLink agent, UCA enables a broad set of management, monitoring
and governance capabilities.
The RightScale Universal Cloud Appliance is currently available in Early Access.