TECHdotMN: News about Minnesota Startups

By Dan Haugen, The Line

“Minneapolis-based enStratus helps companies manage their cloud-computing activities. Cloud computing is a term for using data or applications that are stored online rather than on a desktop computer’s hard drive.

“In 2010, what we’ve done is managed to become a global business,” says George Reese, the company’s founder and chief technology officer. And he has numbers to back it up. As of mid-August, 80 percent of the company’s new customers this year have been from outside of the United States. A year ago, enStratus didn’t have any non-domestic customers.”

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Via News Release

“enStratus announced today that two leading cloud computing thought leaders have joined its Board of Advisors – James Urquhart and Simon Wardley. The enStratus Board of Advisors provides industry and customer perspectives to assist in the development of new cloud management solutions, partnerships and go-to-market strategies.”

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By Alex Williams, ReadWriteCloud

“The cloud computing market is young and third-party services are emerging to help set benchmarks for services such as Amazon Web Services and Rackspace. The Cloud Security Alliance and CloudAudit are two organizations that have taken the responsibility to provide users with information to help in their adoption of cloud computing.

These organizations are important as they provide ways for companies to use standard measures to judge a cloud computing company. But they are only part of the equation. As the need grows for better scrutiny, services like EnStratus are emerging to provide comprehensive governance over cloud computing infrastructures.”

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Via News Release

“enStratus today announced the selection of the enStratus cloud management platform by the Cloud Security Alliance for their new User Certification Program system that was announced today at the Black Hat USA 2010 Conference.

The Cloud Security Alliance requires a cloud management platform that provides the critical cloud governance capabilities we know are important,” said Jim Reavis, Executive Director of the Cloud Security Alliance. “For this reason, we selected enStratus and have deployed their cloud management platform to improve the resiliency and availability of our certification system.”

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Via News Release,

“enStratus today announced that its cloud management solution now supports the newly released Google Storage. The addition of Google provides customers another option to manage cloud infrastructure from a unified management solution by enStratus.

enStratus is a cloud infrastructure management platform for deploying and operating enterprise-class applications in public and private clouds. With the addition of Google Storage, customers can now…”

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via Press Release,

“enStratus announced today at the 2010 Microsoft Management Summit the integration of its leading cloud management solution to Microsoft System Center. This integration is aimed at Microsoft System Center customers looking to gain visibility into their public and private cloud operations through Operations Manager. With this announcement, enStratus becomes the first cloud management solution to integrate into Microsoft System Center.”

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By Steve Borsch, Minnov8

“Since we’re a sponsor of the upcoming CloudCamp event on March 2nd — and are huge fans of cloud computing and the innovation occurring with companies in this space — we were delighted to get a heads-up on a new partnership in town that will undoubtedly be quite a powerful combination and a great addition to Minnesota and the region.

ReliaCloud, the new service from Visi that offers small-to-medium-sized enterprises cloud computing servers and storage space, has announced a new partnership with enStratus, a national cloud management platform that delivers governance for enterprise applications in the cloud. As they state in their press release about the “2+2=12″ aspects of this alliance, “Together ReliaCloud and enStratus offer companies a seamless, manageable cloud computing service. The two organizations are also joining forces to sponsor 2010 CloudCamp events and an April 7, 2010, webinar to educate information technology professionals about the business advantages of using cloud computing.””

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