RightScale raises $4,500,000

RightScale, Inc., the leading automated management platform for Internet cloud computing services, today announced it has secured $4.5 million in first-round venture financing.  will use the funds to accelerate customer growth and develop more tools that enable developers to create and automate reliable, scalable and high-performing web applications for Amazon Web Services (AWS).  The company’s end-to-end cloud management platform features the RightScale Dashboard, pre-packaged open source components, and a design environment that provides developers an unprecedented degree of convenience and automation in deploying multi-server compute clusters. Developers can migrate their web applications to cloud computing services quickly using RightScale’s pre-packaged server templates for web front-end load balancing, MySQL database replication and backup, and grid frameworks for compute-intensive batch processing. Based on patent-pending RightScript technology, RightScale’s server templates provide an easy, open, and flexible design and deployment tool for managing virtual server networks in the cloud.