Enstratius (formerly enStratus) was a

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infrastructure management platform founded in

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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

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and

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. Enstratius supports both

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and on-premises deployment models. Enstratius was headquartered in

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, with remote workers across the United States, and offices in

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, and

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. It was purchased by

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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. 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

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under the Apache license called Dasein Cloud. Dasein Cloud is a Java abstraction API that Enstratius uses to talk to the clouds it supports. The company raised a Series A financing of $4.5 million in November 2011 from El Dorado Ventures, Vesbridge Partners, and

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. In March 2013, enStratus Networks changed its name to Enstratius, Inc. In May 2013, the company was acquired by

. Two weeks later, Dell discontinued its own cloud computing service. 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.

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External links

Official site
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