Santa Barbara-based cloud computing software firm RightScale announced today that the firm is partnering with a number of other software providers to deliver business intelligence software on its cloud management platform. RightScale said its software can automatically configure the software from those vendors, deploy it into the cloud. RightScale said it is unveiling the new product with Jaspersoft, Talend, and Vertica, which integrates technology from those firms for the business intelligence market. RightScale is venture backed by Index

Aliso Viejo-based 3Tera , a developer of cloud computing software and services, announced Thursday that the firm has upgraded its AppLogic cloud computing platform. 3Tera's software is used to manage virtual data center services, including deploying web applications and storage. Tags: 3tera cloud computing application According to the firm, the updated platform includes automated diagnostics and self-healing features, including ability to monitor and detect hard drives issues; automatic volume repair; improved server isolation; and soft restarts of the system.

Previously startups had to purchase servers, load balances, routers, write some code and hire a hosting company to house and manage all of the hardware and software infrastructure. Now entrepreneurs can write some code and purchase bandwidth, encoding, storage and many other services in bite sizes at a fraction of the cost and time. Companies like RightScale (Santa Barbara company recently funded by Benchmark) are providing a critical management console for cloud computing services to insure availability and reliability. Encoding, Storage, Load Balancing and many other web infrastructure services are now all accessible to just about any businesses in bite sizes.

Previously startups had to purchase servers, load balances, routers, write some code and hire a hosting company to house and manage all of the hardware and software infrastructure. Now entrepreneurs can write some code and purchase bandwidth, encoding, storage and many other services in bite sizes at a fraction of the cost and time. Companies like RightScale (Santa Barbara company recently funded by Benchmark) are providing a critical management console for cloud computing services to insure availability and reliability. Encoding, Storage, Load Balancing and many other web infrastructure services are now all accessible to just about any businesses in bite sizes.

During this 10 year period enterprise software licenses have been reduced by 1/10 from around $250,000 to $25,000 while bandwidth capacity has increased 100X from dial up speeds of 56k to greater than 5GB. The financial industry has given a sophisticated name to this new industry and we call it "Cloud Computing". cloud computin Who would have thought 10 years ago when online retailers Webvan, Etoys and Amazon were founded that one of these companies could eventually rival Microsoft, Oracle and Sun? Amazon has quietly become the world leader at selling high volume

During this 10 year period enterprise software licenses have been reduced by 1/10 from around $250,000 to $25,000 while bandwidth capacity has increased 100X from dial up speeds of 56k to greater than 5GB. The financial industry has given a sophisticated name to this new industry and we call it "Cloud Computing". Who would have thought 10 years ago when online retailers Webvan, Etoys and Amazon were founded that one of these companies could eventually rival Microsoft, Oracle and Sun? Amazon has quietly become the world leader at selling high volume products at thin margins

Santa Barbara-based Eucalpytus Systems , the venture funded startup developing open source, private cloud management software, said Thursday that it has released its first major update of its software. According to the firm, the updated software now includes multi-cluster support, better scaling, and new monitoring capabilities. Tags: eucalyptus systems cloud Eucalpytus is venture backed by Benchmark Capital and BV Capital, and is a spinout of UC Santa Barbara. READ MORE>> ...Tags:

Aliso Viejo-based 3Tera , a provider of cloud computing services and technology, said this week that it has rolled out a new marketplace for production-ready software. According to 3Tera, its new 3Tera AppStore will allow enterprise users, software vendors, and others to sell production-ready cloud components, based on its cloud computing services. 3Tera runs a service which The firm said the new marketplace will allow companies to offer components such as pre-configured web servers, databases, and applications along with datacenter infrastructure such as firewalls and switches to others.

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus , the UCSB spinout which is developing cloud computing software, said today that the firm has linked into a number of partners, including AppScale, Canonical, CohesiveRT, RightScale, rPath, and Ylastic. All of those partners are supporting Eucalyptus through their respective software packages. Eucalyptus develops software which can be used to implement cloud computing within companies. The firm's software is API compatible with Amazon AWS, the public cloud computing offering from Amazon.

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , a developer of cloud computing software, has linked with a London developer of enterprise content management software, Alfresco Software, the two said this week. According to the firms, they are using RightScale's software-as-a-service cloud management product to implement, manage, and scale Alfresco's open source content management software in the cloud. Financial details behind the partnership were not disclosed by the company. RightScale develops software used to deploy software in Amazon Web Services