Enterprises are turning to Platform9 to migrate off VMware

Migrate to Platform9 Private Cloud Director in weeks—at one-tenth the cost of industry analyst estimates. Get the simplest private cloud experience with all the enterprise-grade features of VMware, including HA, DRS, advanced networking, scale, and reliability.

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Global Fortune 150 enterprise migrating 40,000 VMs to Platform9

3000 hypervisors • 200 VMs per day • $35 per VM migration

A Global Fortune 150 enterprise is migrating 40,000 VMs to Platform9’s Private Cloud Director at $35 per VM, moving 200+ VMs per day using our open-source tool vJailbreak.

After evaluating Nutanix, Hyper-V, Proxmox, and Red Hat, they chose Private Cloud Director as the only solution that met all of their enterprise requirements with seamless third-party storage integration.”

Madhura Maskasky

Co-founder and VP of Product, Platform9

Why Private Cloud Director?

Enterprise-grade alternative to VMware, using the open-source KVM hypervisor, OpenStack, and Kubernetes, delivered as a fully integrated platform.

VMware replacement today

  • Critical enterprise grade VMware features similar to VM-High Availability, VMware DRS, vMotion
  • Seamless integration with all existing storage, network and backup solutions
  • Delightful UX designed for VMware admins
  • Distributed SDN replaces vDS and NSX
  • vJailbreak tooling to automate migration from VMware

Private cloud for the future

  • Built-in cluster-API based Kubernetes control plane for modern apps
  • Public cloud like K8s experience (hosted control plane, cluster-api infrastructure provider for VMs)
  • Integrated PaaS services (e.g., DBaaS) using Kubernetes operators with simple UX and high availability
  • True cloud experience with self-service, API automation and multi-tenancy

Our pedigree with private clouds

Founded by early VMware engineers with deep understanding of virtual infrastructure

Experience with large-scale deployments with 20,000+ nodes under management

Deep knowledge and innovations in open-source cloud software

More than $100M invesment in world-class R&D and IP innovation

Unmatched customer operational experience with Always On-Assurance™

Always-on Assurance™

Our unique proactive-ops approach helps you achieve high uptime and reliability

  1. 97.2% of issues resolved without customer escalation, preventing app outages
  2. Remote monitoring and proactive troubleshooting, ensuring guaranteed 99.9% SLA
  3. Enterprise-ready with data privacy, security and compliance.
Always-on Assurance™

Trusted by platform teams at global enterprises

Cloudera

“Public clouds cost 4x more than our private cloud—that’s why we use Platform9 in our on-premises data centers. Platform9’s solution enables us to add services and fix issues in minutes, avoiding hefty cloud fees.”

EBSCO Information Services

“We’ve been running Platform9 in production since 2017, scaling 4x over the years. Their seamless performance and collaboration with our teams have been key to our success.”

Juniper Networks

“We scaled our private cloud 10x in 3 years—without hiring extra staff—thanks to Platform9’s SaaS and expert day-2 support. In addition, we saved 50% costs over a DIY approach and VM licensing fees.”

Sambanova

“Your managed offering and support, along with your commitment, diligence, and great sense of ownership, ensured the successful and timely rollout of our new managed AI platform.”

Yext

“We needed new infrastructure fast, and Platform9 delivered. In just 20 minutes, we provisioned across all environments—a 10x improvement over our best manual times.”

Rackspace IT

“Platform9’s unique offering combines best-of-breed virtualization platform, automated VM migration tooling and built-in Kubernetes, enabling our vision of cloud-native apps”

How enterprise simplify their private clouds with Platform9

OpenStack for private cloud

Private cloud virtualization

Run thousands of VMs with automated scale testing and build automation.

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On-premise K8s for Dev/Test

On-premise K8s for Dev/Test

Develop and test products for 6000 engineers with 99.95% round-the-clock SLA across two globally distributed data centers.

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Distributed K8s for AI

Distributed K8s for AI

Centrally manage K8s on a full-stack generative AI hardware and software platform across hundreds of customer locations.

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