Hybrid Cloud Management Provider Enstratius Acquired by Dell

Dell has acquired a potentially critical cloud-agnostic services platform, Enstratius, in the midst of an ever-growing hybrid public-private cloud market in corporate America.

The amount of the purchase remains undisclosed, and Enstratius, which is a small privately held Minneapolis cloud management services provider with less than 50 employees, helps over 20 public/ private cloud platforms; this includes Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, OpenStack, VMware and Rackspace.

Round Rock, Texas-based Dell, has stated that it intends to make Enstratius available via its solution provider partners and will input in further engineering and sales talent to support the company.

Enstratius has no venture capital backing, and its customers include Korea's largest telecom provider, KT.

Kittery, Maine-based GreenPages Technology Solutions is a national cloud computing solution provider that has created its own Cloud Management as a Service (CMaaS) product, and it has caught the focus of corporate customers. The CEO of the company, Ron Dupler, said that the Dell acquisition is a "smart move" which reaffirms the significance of hybrid cloud management in today's market.

The GreenPages CMaaS product has been made the centerpiece of five-year plans to develop a $300 million business. Dupler said: "This is continued acknowledgement that the future in this industry is in helping companies build out and manage hybrid cloud environments. It is just continued validation for the shift that is under way. The industry is moving fast toward hybrid cloud, and there is a huge need right now for companies like GreenPages that can help customers manage those hybrid cloud environments effectively."

Enstratius noted that it offers "automated application provisioning and scaling, application configuration management, usage governance and cloud utilization monitoring," and is available both as a cloud management software-as-a-service or as an on-premise software via a customer's data center of a hosted service.

Furthermore, the cloud-agnostic service at Enstratius can be critical as Dell is able to offer big data solutions. For instance, the EMC-VMware-General Electric-backed Pivotal is hoping to support customers speedily and assist them in developing and distributing big-data-based business applications. (CY) Link