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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later. Luck has got to play a big role here!

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. They realized that as entreprises were increasingly using many different Cloud-based applications they didn’t have good cross-platform tools for deployment, monitoring and decommissioning. Cloud Data Platform. Okta solves this and more. Business Logic.

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