The cloud is evolving. As the “standard” cloud has become pervasive, we see specialized clouds emerge. ML clouds, Fin clouds, Telco clouds, and Edge clouds, to name a few. All share a few common goals: simplification of operation, ease of integration with a DevOps pipeline, and infrastructure flexibility. But differences in focus emerge with specialized […]
· August 4, 2022 · 6 min read
With extensive experience in Go-to-Market, Emilia has led teams with SaaS and on-premise solutions for some of the most respected enterprise organizations such as SAP, Nokia, and Oracle. She will be responsible for developing an effective GTM strategy and building a world-class team to deliver scalable growth. Taking Platform9’s game-changing solution to the next level
· July 28, 2022 · 4 min read
For over five years, the fantastic team and I at Nokia pushed hard to make the transition to software and cloud-native a reality. A transition that started slow but over the years became a reality, and finally, in the recent past, a true cloud-native approach leading to SaaS became a reality in Telco. Over all
· July 18, 2022 · 3 min read
We are proud to be awarded as the most “Promising technology company” at the forefront of tackling customer challenges. We empower our customers to accelerate their Enterprise cloud-native journey with Distributed Cloud Architecture. Siliconindia is the most prominent and oldest magazine (since August 1997) covering business and technology in the U.S. and India. Every year
· July 15, 2022 · 2 min read
Platform9’s vision is to democratize cloud computing with an open, distributed cloud architecture. Their SaaS Kubernetes platform helps enterprises deploy and manage clusters across edge, private, and public clouds thus enabling them to implement an “Open Distributed Cloud.”
· June 17, 2022 · 2 min read
Celesta Capital led the most recent financing round in Platform9. Here’s why we invested in the company.
· June 14, 2022 · 4 min read
Cloud native scale, availability, resilience and velocity done easy using Kubernetes and microservices. If only it was as simple as that. Install Kubernetes, deploy your containers and like magic, you get all benefits of cloud native immediately. Unfortunately cloud native isn’t just about the tooling. Kubernetes enables cloud native, it doesn’t deliver cloud native. Not
· April 29, 2022 · 4 min read
Most companies are at the early stages of the cloud-native journey and can benefit by leveraging knowledge and insight from others to accelerate this mission-critical transformation. Platform9 has spent the past eight years supporting companies like Juniper Networks, Kingfisher, and Redfin in their cloud-native journey, sharing and gathering best practices along the way. Platform9 has
· December 13, 2021 · 2 min read
Recently, we set out to answer an age-old Kubernetes mystery – “what’s different about my cluster’s profile RBAC”. Let’s say you are managing 3 environments for many developer teams. The promotion lifecycle goes “Development”, “Staging”, then “Production”. The Development environment is an internal, safe place for developers to develop. It’s not highly available or has
· November 16, 2021 · 6 min read
At the KubeCon show in LA, we conducted a survey of 567 attendees who gave us insight into their use of Kubernetes. Here are the five most important takeaways from the survey results: 1. Autoscaling, speed, portability – top reasons to adopt Kubernetes KubeCon attendees tend to be advanced users of Kubernetes so the
· October 29, 2021 · 3 min read
Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) release version 5.4 is now available. This new version brings support for Kubernetes 1.21, new dashboards for Workloads and Storage, the containerd runtime, and other fixes and improvements. Platform9 is also excited to announce the Profile Engine, which is a new cluster governance and policy management feature that leverages the SaaS
· October 21, 2021 · 6 min read
In this article, we will take a look at the pieces that make up Platform9 Managed Kubernetes, talk about the distinct security benefits that our SaaS Managed architecture brings to your enterprise Kubernetes environment, and discuss how our architecture enables us to deliver 99.9% uptime SLA while helping you run a secure and enterprise grade
· August 17, 2021 · 9 min read