Enstratius

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Enstratius
Developer(s) Enstratius, Inc.
Operating system Linux, Windows
Type Cloud computing
License Proprietary
Website www.enstratius.com

Enstratius (formerly enStratus) was a cloud computing infrastructure management platform founded in Minneapolis [1] in 2008. It was intended to address governance issues associated with deploying systems in public, private, and hybrid clouds. More than twenty public and private clouds are supported, as well as configuration management tools such as Chef and Puppet. Enstratius supports both SaaS and on-premises deployment models.

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Enstratius was headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, with remote workers across the United States, and offices in Auckland, New Zealand, and Edinburgh, Scotland. It was purchased by Dell in 2013 and ceased operations as a separate entity by 2016.

History

The company was originally formed in 2008 as enStratus Networks, a spin-off of marketing software maker Valtira. The software forming the backbone of enStratus was a set of cloud management tools that Valtira had developed in support of its cloud operations. The company announced itself publicly at the MinneDemo conference in February 2009 and began accepting on-demand accounts. Co-founders were David Bagley and George Reese. [1] [2]

Enstratius moved from a focus purely on security to the wider problem of governance over multiple cloud computing environments. In 2010, Enstratius spun off part of its intellectual property as an open source project hosted at GitHub under the Apache license called Dasein Cloud. [3] Dasein Cloud is a Java abstraction API that Enstratius uses to talk to the clouds it supports.[ citation needed ]

The company raised a Series A financing of $4.5 million in November 2011 from El Dorado Ventures, Vesbridge Partners, and Citrix.[ citation needed ] In March 2013, enStratus Networks changed its name to Enstratius, Inc.[ citation needed ]

In May 2013, the company was acquired by Dell. [4] [5] Two weeks later, Dell discontinued its own cloud computing service. [6]

In June 2016 Dell shifted the Enstratius product line to support-only. They continue to support customers, but are no longer selling this cloud management platform. [7] [8]

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References

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  2. ↑ "enStratus Presents at Under the Radar". Under the Radar. April 24, 2009. Retrieved September 20, 2013.
  3. ↑ Dasein Cloud
  4. ↑ "Dell Acquires Enstratius, an Award-Winning Enterprise Cloud-Management Company". Press release. Dell. May 6, 2013. Retrieved September 20, 2013.
  5. ↑ Timothy Prickett Morgan (May 6, 2013). "Dell snaps up Enstratius for cloud wrangling: Big Mike is getting agnostic about heavenly infrastructure". The Register. Retrieved September 20, 2013.
  6. ↑ Jack Clark (May 20, 2013). "Dell JUNKS public cloud in favor of partner tech: 'Freedom from lock-in' through product cancellation". The Register. Retrieved September 20, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Dell Cloud Manager". Archived from the original on 2016-06-08. Retrieved 2016-06-08. Dell Cloud Manager is no longer available for purchase.
  8. ↑ "Cloud Manager" . Retrieved 2016-06-08. While this product is no longer available for purchase, we'll continue to provide our current Cloud Manager customers with documentation, resources and product support...
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