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It's Log, It's Log.
4/23/2012 12:14PM
Whether we like it or not, logging, monitoring and alerting are realities that we have to deal with on a daily basis. David Mortman suggests two solutions to logging issues that are unique to the cloud.
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enStratus, CloudStack, and the Apache Foundation
4/3/2012 5:00AM
enStratus is excited about today's announcement that CloudStack will become an Apache Foundation incubator project. We've provided cloud management for this cloud platform since the days of VMOps, and we see so many possibilities moving forward when you combine enStratus, CloudStack, and the Apache Foundation.
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Cloud Management and Identity
4/2/2012 8:07AM
David Mortman, Chief Security Officer at enStratus focuses on one of the big challenges in cloud information security—identity and access management. Or in other words, authentication and authorization.
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Evolving with CloudStack and the Ecosystem
2/13/2012 7:27AM
As is evident at the Cloud Connect conference this week, the cloud industry keeps changing, evolving and growing. Today, Citrix announced CloudStack 3—including new features such as expanded networking and hypervisor support, and more.
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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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GigaOM Cloud Blog
April 29, 2012 - The need for enterprise architecture was spurred by the need to gain control over an increasingly complex computing environment, and an increasingly large backlog of data and feature needs. But those needs are changing, and so is the job of the enterprise architect.
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CIO Blog
May 8, 2012 - Taking an agile approach to the application lifecycle in a hybrid cloud environment means moving beyond the one-and-done method of V2C conversions and embracing DevOps. Getting development and operations to collaborate means linking resource, configuration, and cloud management.
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