Over the past few months, more and more organizations have moved toward leveraging multiple cloud providers. Whether it’s a private/public hybrid model or multiple public providers, this is definitely a trend.
Our vision has always been that organizations will use multiple cloud providers and need one management, governance and automation solution for all of them.
Security, Provisioning and Financial Controls
Many of our customers have been starting VMs in multiple cloud providers like AWS, Rackspace, Eucalyptus and Cloud.com. With our granular access controls, enStratus provides you the ability to grant access to each person or group with the access they require for the appropriate clouds.
In addition our financial controls allow you to track spending across clouds including soft and hard spending caps across all the clouds you manage with enStratus.
Cross-cloud dependencies, cloud-bursting, cross-cloud DR, and cross-cloud auto-scaling
Though managing multiple independent clouds from inside enStratus is cool, enStratus also enables you to create managed applications that operate across multiple clouds. For example, you can configure an application to operate entirely within your private data center up to a certain capacity threshold and have enStratus burst part, or all of it, into a public cloud beyond that capacity. The image below shows an example of how to set the bursting to the secondary cloud after 5 servers.
For truly distributed application architectures, enStratus has the capability to automate cross-cloud auto-scaling. enStratus will make sure traffic for your distributed application is balanced evenly across multiple clouds and provide you redundancy even in the face of the complete failure of one of your cloud providers. Even if you don’t want the redundancy, enStratus will optionally backup to a DR cloud.
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