<s>
Enstratius	B-General_Concept
(	O
formerly	O
enStratus	B-General_Concept
)	O
was	O
a	O
cloud	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
infrastructure	O
management	O
platform	O
founded	O
in	O
Minneapolis	O
in	O
2008	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
More	O
than	O
twenty	O
public	O
and	O
private	O
clouds	O
are	O
supported	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
configuration	O
management	O
tools	O
such	O
as	O
Chef	B-Application
and	O
Puppet	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Enstratius	B-General_Concept
supports	O
both	O
SaaS	B-Architecture
and	O
on-premises	O
deployment	O
models	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Enstratius	B-General_Concept
was	O
headquartered	O
in	O
Eden	O
Prairie	O
,	O
Minnesota	O
,	O
with	O
remote	O
workers	O
across	O
the	O
United	O
States	O
,	O
and	O
offices	O
in	O
Auckland	O
,	O
New	O
Zealand	O
,	O
and	O
Edinburgh	O
,	O
Scotland	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
was	O
originally	O
formed	O
in	O
2008	O
as	O
enStratus	B-General_Concept
Networks	O
,	O
a	O
spin-off	O
of	O
marketing	O
software	O
maker	O
Valtira	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
software	O
forming	O
the	O
backbone	O
of	O
enStratus	B-General_Concept
was	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
cloud	O
management	O
tools	O
that	O
Valtira	O
had	O
developed	O
in	O
support	O
of	O
its	O
cloud	O
operations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Enstratius	B-General_Concept
moved	O
from	O
a	O
focus	O
purely	O
on	O
security	O
to	O
the	O
wider	O
problem	O
of	O
governance	O
over	O
multiple	O
cloud	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
environments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2010	O
,	O
Enstratius	B-General_Concept
spun	O
off	O
part	O
of	O
its	O
intellectual	O
property	O
as	O
an	O
open	O
source	O
project	O
hosted	O
at	O
GitHub	B-Application
under	O
the	O
Apache	O
license	O
called	O
Dasein	O
Cloud	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Dasein	O
Cloud	O
is	O
a	O
Java	O
abstraction	O
API	O
that	O
Enstratius	B-General_Concept
uses	O
to	O
talk	O
to	O
the	O
clouds	O
it	O
supports	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
raised	O
a	O
Series	O
A	O
financing	O
of	O
$4.5	O
million	O
in	O
November	O
2011	O
from	O
El	O
Dorado	O
Ventures	O
,	O
Vesbridge	O
Partners	O
,	O
and	O
Citrix	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2013	O
,	O
enStratus	B-General_Concept
Networks	O
changed	O
its	O
name	O
to	O
Enstratius	B-General_Concept
,	O
Inc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Two	O
weeks	O
later	O
,	O
Dell	O
discontinued	O
its	O
own	O
cloud	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
service	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
June	O
2016	O
Dell	O
shifted	O
the	O
Enstratius	B-General_Concept
product	O
line	O
to	O
support-only	O
.	O
</s>
