RightScale Network Manager Simplifies, Secures Clouds

RightScale Cloud Management is getting an update to simplify and secure both public and private cloud networking. Additionally, the new Network Manager feature will give enterprises—or their channel partners—the ability to manage cloud networking across multiple clouds.

Simplification and ease-of-use—both are common discussion points when it comes to cloud these days, especially as they pertain to making it simpler to work across multiple clouds in both the public and private cloud realms. In the case of RightScale Network Manager, the goal is to help improve security and auditing, as well as making applications more easily portable across clouds.

At a high level, Network Manager provides an abstraction of virtual network resources across cloud providers with a common user interface and API to access resources. That includes resources in software-defined networks. Also included in Network Manager is a tool called Network Map, which was designed to be an interactive virtualization tool to understand network topologies and improve cloud security.

As for providing functionality across multiple clouds, Network Manager provides multi-cloud network abstractions, including subnets, security groups and network gateways. The reason? To make apps portable across clouds and to simplify security and network administration in the cloud.

“Private and public clouds increasingly leverage new networking technologies, including SDNs. Network Manager helps professionals visualize and audit cloud network histories, improve security and manage the networks across clouds,” said Rishi Vaish, RightScale vice president of Products, in a prepared statement.

A few of the benefits RightScale promises with this new feature include:

RightScale Network Manager is available now in the RightScale Unified Cloud Platform and Amazon (AMZN) Web Services. Additional cloud support is coming later this year.