Dell acquires Enstratius to complement, bolster enterprise cloud offering

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Zack Whittaker.

Dell announced on Monday it will acquire Enstratius, an enterprise cloud management software firm, for an undisclosed amount. Founded in 2008, Enstratius offers cloud management services to hybrid and single-cloud customers as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that sits either as a hosted service or within the network. By embracing a "cloud agnostic" platform, the technology works with both Dell and non-Dell customers, including OpenStack, Microsoft’s Azure, Amazon Web Services, VMware and Rackspace, just to name a few.

The firm’s software cloud management capabilities allow administrators and IT staff to quickly and easily deploy multi-component applications across one or multiple clouds. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Dell said it will retain Enstratius’ staff and continue to invest in its engineering and sales divisions to help grow the business…

Dell said that the Enstratius buy will complement its recent Gale Technologies acquisition in November 2012. The acquisition turned Gale into the Active System Manager (ASM), which helped form part of Dell’s Enterprise Systems and Services group…

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