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Dell is rounding out its cloud infrastructure management capabilities with the purchase of Enstratius

On Monday morning, Dell said it is buying Enstratius, a startup that provides tools and dashboards to manage hybrid and private clouds.

Read about Dell's software makeover and acquisition of Enstratius in this Wired news article.

Dell has acquired Enstratius, a provider of cloud management software considered one of the most innovative startups in the market by Gartner Research.

Read about Dell's acquisition of Enstratius in this Forbes' article.

Adding to its portfolio of IT management software, Dell has acquired Enstratius (formerly called EnStratus), which offers software for managing workloads in hosted cloud environments.

Read about Enstratius' acquisition by Dell in this NetworkWorld article.

The PC making giant continues to push forward its cloud services portfolio by acquiring an award-winning hybrid cloud and single-cloud management software firm.

Texas computer maker Dell Inc. has acquired Minneapolis-based Enstratius, a private cloud-computing firm.

Enstratius, a maker of technologies companies use to manage cloud-computing services, has been sold to Dell for an undisclosed amount.

Dell, Inc., said Monday that it acquired Enstratius, a Minneapolis-based cloud-management software and services provider for an undisclosed sum.

Enstratius is named one of the Top 10 most useful cloud tools in this NetworkWorld article.

James Urquhart, Enstratius VP of Product Strategy, is included in this list of industry leaders that have helped propel cloud computing to the forefront of technology innovation.

Read this Boundary interview with James Urquhart, VP of Product Strategy, about cloud management and DevOps.

InformationWeek lists enStratus as one of the Top 10 tools that can help prevent cloud vendor lock-in.

enStratus has added IBM SmartCloud Enterprise to its list of supported clouds. The cloud infrastructure management solution provider plans to extend SmartCloud's capabilities with additional security, governance and automation features.

In this CloudAve article, Ben Kepes describes how companies, like enStratus, help both the IT and business-side of organizations.

Read in this Basho blog post about why enStratus moved from MySQL to Riak to power their cloud management platform.

Read in this Sys-Con Media article about how enStratus uses Basho Riak to provide customers with high-availability cloud management options.

enStratus is listed as one of nine 'Everything-as-a-Service' companies to watch in this ComputerWorld UK article.

Read in this SiliconAngle article about Dell's latest OpenStack upgrades and new partner ecosystem, which includes enStratus.

Read this Cloud Computing Journal article on the the importance of a logging strategy to get the benefits.

Bernard Golden and James Urquhart of enStratus named as two of the top 10 cloud influencers & thought leaders, according to Wired Cloudline.

Read in this CSO article about David Mortman's talk on cloud security for enterprises from the Secure360 Conference.

Experts including enStratus VP of Enterprise Solutions, Bernard Golden say you still need to do the heavy lifting to ensure strong security and access policies.

Listen to John Vincent, Director of Cloud Infrastructure, as he discusses his perspective on the DevOps movement in this BMC podcast.

Listen to James Urquhart discuss cloud APIs during a panel at the OpenStack Spring Conference 2012.

Read in this article about James Urquhart's take on the shifting of IT operations in a cloud computing environment.

enStratus is mentioned in this Cloud U Notebooks blog on today’s big trends around Cloud.

ZDNet UK highlights the recent agreement between Dell and enStratus to bring enterprise cloud management to OpenStack-based private clouds.

Read this BBC News article to learn more about the opening of a new enStratus European headquarters in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Read more in this Cloud Computing Journal article about how enStratus is one of the companies that benefits from the evolving cloud market.

enStratus listed as one of the Top 20 coolest cloud platforms by CRN.

Read about the RSA Conference panel on Risk Management, moderated by David Mortman, Chief Security Architect at enStratus.

Learn more in this WHIR article about Joyent Cloud's partnership with enStratus for cloud management.

Listen to John Willis, VP of Client Service and Enablement, discuss DevOps and its importance to the future of cloud computing and enterprise IT.

Listen to James Urquhart, VP of Product Strategy, and Alex Williams, SiliconAngle, discuss node.js at Node Summit 2012.

Read more in this Talkin' Cloud article about Bernard Golden's role as VP of Enterprise Solutions at enStratus.

Learn more in this WHIR article about enStratus announcing Bernard Golden as the new VP or Enterprise Solutions.

Read this DataCenterKnowledge article about enStratus' new release for enterprise cloud management.

Learn more in this WHIR article about enStratus appointing James Urquhart as Vice President of Product Strategy.

Read in this CRN article about cloud computing veteran James Urquhart and his new position as Vice President of Product Strategy at enStratus.

Learn more in this GigaOm article about James Urquhart’s most important observations to date on cloud computing for the enterprise.

Read in the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal about enStratus raising funding in a round led by El Dorado Ventures.

Learn more in this GigaOM article about enStratus's recent Series A funding to grow its business of cloud management.

Read in this Sys-Con posting about enterprise cloud management and how enStratus provides "critical management, monitoring, governance capabilities tailored to the needs of the Global 2000 market."

enStratus, the Minneapolis based company focussing on cloud governance, has raised $3.5 Million according to this MarketBrief from SEC filing.

enStratus is mentioned in this article about best practices in response to public cloud disruptions.

enStratus is identified as one of the Top Cloud Computing Enablers Gaining Mind Share in 3Q 2011 by Ulitzer.

Read the posting by Ofir Nachmani from I Am OnDemand reviewing cloud management and the various leading providers including enStratus.

Aaron and Brian talk to George Reese from enStratus about managing Clouds, AWS outages and how to take advantage of multiple cloud platforms.

Learn the latest from VMworld 2011 with George Reese and a panel of other cloud experts

George Reese, CTO of enStratus, joined other experts in the industry to share his view on open standards as they relate to cloud computing in this roundtable discussion hosted by Focus.

VMware is collaborating with multiple software and hardware providers including enStratus to promote the broader integration of Cloud Foundry.

The latest Cloud Foundry Blog post discusses its key industry partners and highlights the specific capabilities enStratus adds to the solution.

enStratus is a key partner enabling automated deployments of Cloud Foundry into 18 clouds.

Read why Scott M. Fulton, III of ReadWriteCloud says the "most important" recent Cloud Foundry announcement comes from enStratus.

Read about enStratus multi-cloud deployment automation for Cloud Foundry in a Cloud Links update.

Dina Bass discusses VMware's Cloud Foundry program and the specific partners, like enStratus, that support its installation.

TECHdotMN highlights the recent partnership between two local Minnesota companies, enStratus and Virteva, and how it will benefit customers.

Read more about the benefits customers gain using Amazon VPC with enStratus.

Rahul Arora highlights the benefits of SAIC and enStratus working together to deliver a complete suite of cloud services and solutions.

Cloud Computing Journal highlights the recent enStratus announcement on expanded capabilities with OpenStack.

enStratus is identified as one of the top 110 Cloud Computing Enablers Gaining Mind Share in 2Q 2011 by Cloud Computing Journal.

Read a summary from the Structure Conference by James Urquhart about applications in the cloud including the benefits of a cloud management solution like enStratus.

Learn more about the recently announced partnership between enStratus and the most widely used e-signature solution, Silanis.

Joe Onisick discusses private cloud delivery models and how cloud management tools, like enStratus, can minimize complexity, reduce risk, and increase flexibility in any type of deployment.

Tools Journal names enStratus as one of the best 15 cloud management tools in the market.

Ben Trowbridge, Founder & CEO of Alsbridge, provides a holistic perspective on the cloud services market outlining the top 100 vendors, including enStratus, in this new book.

Learn more about about safety in the cloud and the role cloud management solutions, like enStratus, play in securing your data.

Learn more about the enStratus philosophy on single points of failure (SPOF) and redundancy.

Learn more about enStratus and its support for the new Amazon RDS for Oracle Database service that launched earlier this week.

Read how Scott Sanchez describes how a “cloud of clouds” like enStratus can help prevent a single point of failure.

Learn more about the four levels of redundancy provided by enStratus CTO George Reese in this article by Mark Hinkle.

George Reese, enStratus CTO, took a lot of phone calls from customers when the Amazon cloud had its challenges. Learn more in this article.

The essence of cloud computing—what makes a cloud, well, cloudy—is the fact it’s an abstraction. See why Jason Bloomberg states that enStratus is a leading provider for "cloud independence as part of cloud governance."

Some businesses are looking for a bridge between managing systems and operating like a cloud. Slowly but surely, the market has begun to adjust with solutions like enStratus leading the way.

enStratus is identified as one of the top 55 Cloud Computing Enablers Gaining Mind Share in 1Q 2011 by CloudTweaks.

Hot private-cloud startup Nimbula is getting in on the ecosystem act, announcing a partner program including enStratus, Opscode, Puppet Labs and more.

Apps, Social Gaming, and the World Stage: Amazon is opening a new data center in Tokyo. Learn how enStratus is helping AWS expand in Asia.

Learn more about the expansion of Amazon Web Services in Japan and how enStratus is supporting the new AWS Tokyo Region.

WebHosting highlights the support for CloudSigma by enStratus.

2010 was certainly an exciting year in the Cloudsphere – Who will be the future king of the cloud? enStratus is listed in the top 90 cloud computing companies to watch in 2011.

Read why Krishnan Subramanian of CloudAve calls the release of the enStratus API a "smart move".

Enterprise Systems highlights the support for XenServer by enStratus

Learn more about the recent new cloud computing vendors added by enStratus

Read why CRN named enStratus one of the "10 hot new IT vendors that are exploding onto the scene."

The Daily Cloud highlights enStratus and the expansion of supported clouds.

80 percent of new cloud customers from outside U.S.

Read how enStratus and the support for CloudAudit is a milestone in cloud computing open standards.

Paul Miller talks with George Reese about cloud security, CloudAudit, and enStratus.

enStratus makes the Cloud Computing Journal's list of the most important organizations in the cloud ecosystem.

Addition of Cloud Central gives company's customers an Australian point of presence for their cloud deployments.

Canberra-based Cloud Central now part of an aggregated network of cloud computing providers that includes AWS, Microsoft's Azure, Rackspace and Google.

Learn why Alex Williams from ReadWriteCloud says that enStratus "will play an important role as customers become more deeply invested in cloud computing."

CloudAve highlights the new User Certification Program by The Cloud Security Alliance and the selection of enStratus as the cloud management platform.

Watch a video of an interview of enStratus CTO George Reese being interviewed about vendor lock-in and APIs at OSCON 2010.

Krishnan Subramanian from CloudAve highlights recent tweets from enStratus CTO George Reese highlighting the difference between the offerings from Amazon and VMware.

enStratus is featured in the debut of a new feature on SearchServerVirtualization Blog called the Virtualization Vendor Profile.

Read the latest review of enStratus by cloudcomputing.info including the addition of vSphere and Google Storage.

enStratus announced support for private cloud infrastructures based on Eucalyptus, an open source solution used for implementing on-premise cloud computing. Now enStratus customers can manage their private cloud deployments based on Eucalyptus and also as hybrid cloud solutions via a unified management solution.

Read this CNET article by Dave Rosenberg that highlights enStratus and the three control areas that users should look for when considering cloud deployments.

Cloud management firm enStratus will now talk to Microsoft's suite of infrastructure management tools. Microsoft System Center is a work-in-progress that Redmond is pitching to Windows data center operators. It's not very cloudy, despite extremely sincere marketing efforts by Microsoft, but enStratus' integration is a step in that direction.

The latest release of the enStratus Cloud Computing Management Solution provides major enhancements in the areas of user management, financial management, and alerting, as well as a new staging environment for customers to test applications.

Frost & Sullivan Analyst Vanessa Alvarez comments on how tools like enStratus will help IT more easily and efficiently manage their environment in InformationWeek's "Plug Into The Cloud".

Read more from this Data Center Knowledge Roundup

Read more about why the partnership is "quite a powerful combination"

A well-crafted service-level agreement and exit strategy are essential as you engage with cloud computing providers.

Learn more about cloud computing brokers and the benefits of working with enStratus.

Listen to George Reese discuss details relating to cloud computing and enStratus.

Read about enStratus' involvement in CloudCamp Seattle.

Learn how enStratus and Rackspace are working together to deliver reliability and security in the cloud.

Learn about enStratus extending support to windows applications and how enStratus is the first provider to have application management in the Amazon Cloud across a range of platforms.

Read about enStratus helping companies manage their AWS resources more efficiently and securely.

enStratus announces that Predictix has decided to deploy the enStratus Platform to manage its Software-as-a-Service merchandising solutions in the cloud.

Learn about enStratus' involvement in the Under the Radar Conference.

Read more about cloud computing and the possibilities for the future.

See why Craig Balding says, "... I’m impressed with their approach, technology and attitude."

Watch enStratus CTO George Reese' demo.