Despite the unresolved status of Dell’s proposed leveraged buyout – still on hold after three months of market machinations from Carl Icahn and the Blackstone Group – Dell announced the acquisition of Enstratius this week. Enstratius offers software and services to manage application provisioning and scaling, application configuration management, usage governance, and cloud utilization monitoring across public, private and hybrid Clouds. Enstratius currently supports more than twenty public and private Clouds.
Dell’s Software Division, under the management of former CA CEO John Swainson, has built an impressive portfolio of security and systems management solutions, largely through acquisition (see list below).
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