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4 Ways to Connect with Platform9 at OpenStack Summit, Boston

OpenStack Summit, Boston is around the corner and Platform9’s remotely managed SaaS OpenStack and Kubernetes offerings will be showcased by various members of the Platform9 team: our founders, customer success managers, and developers will all be involved. As an Open source-as-a-Service company, we’re excited to share our cutting-edge updates at the open source community’s premier […]

Platform9 Managed Kubernetes is now Generally Available

Last June, my co-founder Madhura Maskasky announced the beginning of our journey towards delivering an enterprise-class Container management product: Platform9 Managed Kubernetes. We started a private beta program involving existing and new customers. Our engineering team dove deep into the guts of all things Kubernetes, the good and the bad. We learned the hard way

2016 VMworld: Insights From Customer Survey

The Platform9 team was at VMworld 2016 recently, and the results from our survey on trends in enterprise cloud infrastructure are in. We gathered insights from speaking to over a thousand people, 300 of whom gave us quantitative feedback by participating in our survey. VMworld Audience To start, we asked about roles and responsibilities. Not

Why You Need a Container Orchestration Tool

We recently announced the beta release of Platform9 Managed Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration tool, originally designed by Google. The “managed” experience means Platform9 handles all the nitty gritty details of Kubernetes deployment, configuration, ongoing monitoring, troubleshooting and upgrades. What’s more, the container orchestration tools provide built in support for a number of pain-points

Demo of Platform9 Managed Kubernetes with Jenkins

Recently, we announced the beta release of Platform9 Managed Kubernetes, a SaaS-managed offering for Kubernetes. The “managed” experience means Platform9 handles all the nitty gritty details of Kubernetes deployment, configuration, ongoing monitoring, troubleshooting and upgrades. This lets software developers focus on using the Kubernetes APIs to build cloud-native applications, and DevOps teams can focus on realizing

Docker Orchestration: Survey Results from DockerCon16

Docker orchestration was a hot topic at DockerCon 2016 where thousands of DevOps teams gathered in Seattle last week to learn more about containerizing workloads for more agile and efficient application development. We talked to hundreds of people during the show, and conducted a short survey in our booth to take a quick pulse of this DevOps crowd on

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Docker Takes a Page from the Internet Explorer Playbook

In the late 90s, I had a short-sighted reaction to Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer with the Windows OS. While the technology world grappled with the legalities, ethics and impact to competition, I was just happy to have a browser that was faster and easier to use. I’m writing this at DockerCon16, where yesterday’s keynote reminded me

Containers as a Service with Platform9 Managed Kubernetes for Docker

There are two reasons we’ve always been excited about Docker, containers and Kubernetes. Enabling a True Multi-Cloud Deployment For the past decade, it has been difficult to make application development (using virtualized infrastructure) truly multi-cloud, since virtual machines and guest OSes are inherently not portable. For example, it’s very easy to create and deploy virtual machines on

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Box Adopts Platform9 and Other 2015 Highlights

Happy New Year and welcome to 2016! Box Adopts Platform9 What better way to kick off the new year than with good news? This morning we announced that Box has adopted Platform9’s OpenStack-based private cloud solution to enable DevOps efficiency across two datacenters, serving multiple developer, QA and IT teams at the company. Why did Box

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Public Cloud vs Private Cloud: Six Key Insights

Last week, I joined the Platform9 team at the Amazon re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. It was exciting to be a part of the premier industry conference for cloud infrastructure and to learn from great conversations I had with others at the show. It became clear to me that for those attending AWS re:Invent, it’s not

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Platform9 Raises Series B to Accelerate Enterprise Success with OpenStack Private Clouds

I am excited to share that Platform9 has closed a Series B round led by Menlo Ventures and with participation from existing investor Redpoint Ventures. Menlo Ventures Managing Director Mark Siegel joins the Platform9 board alongside Redpoint Ventures’ Scott Raney. This round sets up Platform9 to scale to support a much larger customer base in the enterprise,

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