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 […]
· May 4, 2017 · 2 min read
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
· January 24, 2017 · 8 min read
It’s a great pleasure to announce that Madhura Maskasky, Platform9 co-founder and vice president of product, is being recognized as one of the most innovative women in cloud technology. Madhura is among 12 women being honored by CloudNOW, the executive consortium for the leading women in cloud and converging technologies, as part of their 5th
· November 1, 2016 · 2 min read
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
· September 27, 2016 · 3 min read
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
· August 3, 2016 · 4 min read
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
· July 26, 2016 · 1 min read
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
· June 30, 2016 · 2 min read
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
· June 22, 2016 · 4 min read
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
· June 20, 2016 · 3 min read
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
· January 5, 2016 · 3 min read
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
· October 15, 2015 · 3 min read
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,
· August 17, 2015 · 4 min read