Taking Enterprise Cloud to the Next Level

By Gary Elfert | March 31st, 2010 | 2 Comments »

If you’re looking to put enterprise applications into the cloud — you’ll want to check out enStratus’s cloud management solution. enStratus provides a cross-cloud management solution delivering governance for the cloud. What does that mean? It means you can utilize a third-party vendor (enStratus) to manage the cloud instances you deploy with national cloud providers (such as ReliaCloud, Rackspace and others). With enStratus, customers gain an additional layer of security, reliability and cloud independence.

Their latest release includes enhancements in the following areas:

• Role-based security
• Financial Controls
• Firewall and Alerting
• SAML 2.0 Integration (Beta)
• Staging Environment

You can read the full press release online at http://www.enstratus.com/NewReleaseWebinar.  You can also attend a webinar presented by enStratus on April 6th to learn more.

ReliaCloud to Sponsor Minneapolis CloudCamp

By Gary Elfert | February 14th, 2010 | No Comments »

For those of you that are new to CloudCamp — CloudCamp is an unconference where attendees can exchange ideas, knowledge and information in a creative and supporting environment, advancing the current state of cloud computing and related technologies.

CloudCamp Minneapolis will be the second CloudCamp for Minnesota. Last year’s event was sold out and brought together local cloud experts along with representatives from many of the national cloud players.

Who should attend? Anyone wishing to further cloud computing or just learn what all the fuss is about!

The general agenda for this year will be:

5:30-6:30 Networking
6:30-7:00 Lightning Talks
7:00-7:30 Lightning Panel
7:30-8:30 Breakout Session #1
8:30-9:30 Breakout Session #2

Registration is now open! You’ll want to act fast as the free event is expected to sell-out soon.