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How Can Automation Make Your Cloud More Secure?

1/12/2012 10:40AM

David Mortman, enStratus's Chief Security Architect, discusses ways to secure cloud automation.
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Extend LDAP/AD Into Your Cloud Management

11/7/2011 7:10AM

Whether you have a public, private, or hybrid cloud, a best-practice inclues extending your LDAP or Active Directory (AD) into your cloud management security. This allows you to build on your existing security policies and improve the effifiencies of your cloud infrastructure user management.
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From Where Should You Govern Your Cloud

9/21/2011 9:29AM

More and more enterprises are moving forward with private/public cloud proof-of-concepts and production deployments. As the cloud migration ramps, cloud governance is becoming more of a focus. One new question facing organizations moving to the cloud is how do you deliver this governance and from where?
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Cloud OS or Cloud Management Software?

9/2/2011 6:33AM

As with any emerging market comes terminology confusion. The term “Cloud Management” is a great recent example. We wanted to take a few minutes to help define this important term.
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Cross-Cloud Management Today

7/13/2011 8:31AM

Over the past few months, more and more organizations have moved toward leveraging multiple cloud providers. Whether it’s a private/public hybrid model or multiple public providers, this is definitely a trend. This trend is feeding into enstratus' original vision of providing one management, governance, and automation solution for all of them. enStratus is capable of supporting any model that best suits an organization.
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Manage Your Private/Hybrid Clouds from Your Own Data Center

6/7/2011 2:35PM

Most companies got their first exposure to cloud computing through public cloud options such as any of the many public clouds supported by enStratus. When operating a public cloud, it makes a lot of sense to leverage a SaaS tool like the enStratus SaaS solution. You simply visit https://cloud.enstratus.com/page/1/register.jsp, sign up, and immediately begin using enStratus to manage your cloud. No software installation needed. Running a private cloud? Leverage enStratus on-premise! Most enterprises these days are looking beyond the public cloud to hybrid and private cloud computing. While our SaaS solution is perfectly capable of managing private and hybrid clouds,.
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The New Oracle RDS Instances

5/25/2011 8:09AM

Yesterday, Amazon launched a new feature for their RDS (Relational Database Services) product that adds Oracle database as a service offerings to their existing MySQL offerings. enStratus has always believed that RDS is one of the more valuable AWS offerings, and you can now leverage Oracle RDS instances in enStratus.
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Extending Cloud Automation with Chef

5/23/2011 10:36AM

Earlier this month, enStratus released an important integration with Opscode's Chef, the open source configuration management and integration framework used by thousands of organizations.
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Deploying a Redundant Cloud Infrastructure

4/25/2011 9:54AM

If the latest events in the AWS EC2 cloud east region have taught cloud architects and administrators anything, it is that the requirement for redundancy and disaster recovery cannot be understated. enStratus enables cloud architects to span architecture across different regions in the same cloud and even across clouds altogether.
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Cloud Computing and the Business Model

4/18/2011 2:56PM

With the barrage of cloud services, Systems Integrators, Hardware Vendors and other types of technology firms are facing business model questions and decisions. A new Accenture Report highlights these business models and how companies should plan for the changes.
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What Is Autoscaling...And Why Does It Matter?

3/1/2011 12:04PM

‘Autoscaling,’ as the name implies, is the ability to have an application dynamically take advantage of additional compute resources as required and then release those resources when they are not required. But what are the options and best-practices of incorporating autoscaling into your cloud infrastructure?
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