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Cloud Platforms: enStratus

by Sergey Bushik and Katherine VasilegaAugust 10, 2010
This blog post overviews enStratus—a solution that provides infrastructure management across multiple cloud providers.

What is it?

enStratus is a software-as-a-service platform for cloud infrastructure management across multiple providers. Furthermore, as a governance service, it provides a comprehensive audit of the following providers: Amazon Web Services, Cloud.com, Eucalyptus, Google Cloud Platform, GoGrid, OpenStack, Rackspace, ReliaCloud, Terremark, VMware, and Windows Azure.

 

Pros

The product has a number of advantages.

  • With enStratus, a user can establish proper control over financial operations in a cloud environment—with attributes such as billing codes, quotas, and reporting. This can help cloud administrators to efficiently track expenditures across multiple accounts of a cloud environment. Furthermore, enStratus can perform an audit of cloud resources and associate them with distinct infrastructure budgets.
  • enStratus enforces security, encrypting customers’ cloud environment. Under this mode, only managers having specific digital keys can access the cloud. Keys are stored outside the cloud environment to guarantee a high level of security so only those with permissions can access the infrastructure.
  • enStratus supports multiple currencies, so users can pay for their cloud services in the most suitable way.

 

Cons

The challenges a company may encounter include the “no-sharing-keys” policy, cloud provider coupling, and potential issues with hosting back-ups.

 

Recommended use

The enStratus cloud management platform is a good fit for providing cloud security and availability management. Its patent-pending security architecture ensures the separation of security keys from encrypted data and keeping user credentials outside the cloud.

 

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The post was written by Sergey Bushik and Katherine Vasilega.

   
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Sergey Bushik is an accomplished software engineer with 12+ years of experience in designing and building secure, scalable, and highly performant solutions. He has vast experience in creating multi-tier and multi-layered applications. In addition, Sergey can boast of a solid background in web development. He is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect, a frequent speaker and participant of international conferences dedicated to big data, as well as an author of several NoSQL\NewSQL benchmarks.