{"id":49838,"date":"2010-08-10T17:35:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T14:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/?p=49838"},"modified":"2024-09-26T04:45:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T01:45:30","slug":"cloud-platforms-enstratus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/cloud-platforms-enstratus\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Platforms: enStratus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_79_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/cloud-platforms-enstratus\/#What_is_it\" >What is it?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/cloud-platforms-enstratus\/#Pros\" >Pros<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/cloud-platforms-enstratus\/#Cons\" >Cons<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/cloud-platforms-enstratus\/#Recommended_use\" >Recommended use<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/cloud-platforms-enstratus\/#Further_reading\" >Further reading<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_it\"><\/span>What is it?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>enStratus<\/b> 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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pros\"><\/span>Pros<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The product has a number of advantages.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 6px;\">With enStratus, a user can establish proper control over financial operations in a cloud environment\u2014with 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.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 6px;\">enStratus enforces security, encrypting customers&#8217; 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.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 6px;\">enStratus supports multiple currencies, so users can pay for their cloud services in the most suitable way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Cons\"><\/span>Cons<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The challenges a company may encounter include the &#8220;no-sharing-keys&#8221; policy, cloud provider coupling, and potential issues with hosting back-ups.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Recommended_use\"><\/span>Recommended use<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Further_reading\"><\/span>Further reading<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/cloud-tools-zeus-traffic-manager\/\">Cloud Tools: Zeus Traffic Manager<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cloud Tools: Hardware Monitoring with Server Density<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cloud Tools: A Pluggable Cloud Storage with ScaleDB<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><center><small>The post was written by Sergey Bushik and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/author\/ekaterina\/\">Katherine Vasilega<\/a>.<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it?<\/p>\n<p>enStratus is a software-as-a-service platform for cloud infrastructure management across multiple providers. 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