RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, and New Relic, the leading provider of Ruby on Rails application performance management solutions, today announced the integration of the RightScale Cloud Computing Management Platform with New Relic’s RPM™ Rails application performance management software. Starting today, RightScale users can tap New Relic RPM to quickly and cost effectively detect, diagnose, and fix performance problems with their Rails applications running on the cloud.

"In the two years RightScale has been helping companies deploy and manage applications on the cloud, Ruby on Rails has always been one of the most popular development frameworks for Web applications on the RightScale platform," said Michael Crandell, RightScale CEO. "New Relic’s RPM gives our many Rails users an easy-to-use, cost-effective tool to quickly understand performance bottlenecks and other critical performance data. New Relic is an important addition to our growing list of third-party solutions that are available directly from the RightScale platform."

"Combining RightScale’s cloud management capability with New Relic’s Rails application performance management creates an ideal set of tools for deploying Rails in the cloud," said Lew Cirne, founder and CEO of New Relic. "We are pleased to be joining forces with RightScale to create this powerful integration of leading management tools."

RightScale’s Web-based cloud computing management platform lets any organization tap the enormous power of cloud computing for scalable, cost-effective IT infrastructure on demand, while maintaining complete control and flexibility. RightScale reduces the complexity of cloud computing, enabling organizations to deploy mission critical applications in a matter of hours, without the risk of lock-in at any level. With sophisticated "cloud-aware" server templates, it’s easy to deploy, manage and dynamically scale even complex, multi-cloud applications on the fully-automated RightScale Platform.

New Relic RPM lets users see and understand Rails application performance metrics in real time to fix problems quickly. RPM is a ten-second Rails plug-in install that can monitor the overall health of an application, detect potential performance problems which may impact customers, drill down to see the exact cause of the problem and integrate with application development and support tools.

Availability

All RightScale platform editions now include New Relic RPM. RightScale customers automatically get a subscription to RPM Lite, New Relic’s free, fully-supported Rails production monitoring product, and can easily upgrade to New Relic RPM paid subscriptions. Upgrading provides access to more performance tuning and problem analysis features and allows customers to store historical data for longer periods of time.

To get up and running on a cloud quickly and for no cost, New Relic customers can sign up for RightScale’s free Developer Edition, easily upgrading to RightScale Professional Editions for significantly more cloud management features and functionality. For more information about RightScale editions, please go to http://www.RightScale.com/products/.

For more information about using New Relic RPM with the RightScale Cloud Management Platform, please go to http://www.RightScale.com, http://www.NewRelic.com, or call RightScale at 1.866.720.0208.

About RightScale, Inc.

RightScale is the leader in cloud computing management. Founded in 2006, the company offers a fully automated management platform that delivers the scalable, cost-effective, on-demand power of cloud computing, while providing complete IT control and transparency. To date, thousands of deployments and over 300,000 servers have been launched on the RightScale Cloud Management Platform for leading companies such as Animoto, Playfish and TC3.

RightScale is committed to delivering the power of cloud computing to any organization by making it easy to deploy and manage mission critical applications, regardless of deployment size, complexity or cloud platform used. The Web-based RightScale platform is available in a range of editions, from the free Developer Edition to Professional Editions. RightScale is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California. To learn more about RightScale, please visit http://www.RightScale.com.

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