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Kamesh leads enterprise product marketing at Platform9. Prior to joining Platform9, he has several years of product management and marketing experience at Dell, Mirantis and ZeroStack focused on delivering open source private and hybrid cloud solutions to enterprises and service providers.

VMware vs. KubeVirt: Discover a Cost-Effective Solution for Legacy VMs and Container Adoption

In a recent webinar hosted by Platform9, Field CTO Peter Fray, Account Executive Nate Conger, and Head of Marketing Kamesh Pemmaraju discussed how to deal with the disruption happening in the virtualization industry in the wake of Broadcom’s planned acquisition of VMware.  They addressed several questions and concerns they are hearing from customers and prospects,

VMware vs. KubeVirt: Discover a Cost-Effective Solution for Legacy VMs and Container Adoption · · 7 min read

Balancing cost savings and innovation in an economic downturn

Kamesh Pemmaraju and Ron Haberman of Platform9 joined Howard Holton, GigaOm CTO, to discuss an important topic that technology leaders are facing today: how do you balance costs while ensuring sustainable growth? How can organizations modernize legacy applications, manage legacy infrastructure, while also building towards their future modern cloud infrastructure and applications?  Recent research shows

Balancing cost savings and innovation in an economic downturn · · 4 min read

Bridging the gap between legacy VM environments and container-based solutions

  Ron Haberman, market CTO of Platform9 joined Stephen Saunders at Silverlinings to discuss legacy virtualization solutions and the future of infrastructure and operations. As IT leaders contemplate the greater need for efficiency and cost-effectiveness in their infrastructure and operations, discussions around VMs, modern infrastructure, and the complexity of migrating become more prevalent. When should

Bridging the gap between legacy VM environments and container-based solutions · · 4 min read

Private cloud is dead. Long live private cloud.

I recently attended a CIO event in San Francisco, where industry leaders gathered to share trends, insights, and experiences. Several points stood out among the various discussions, sparking a thought-provoking debate about the future of the private cloud.  Unleashing the Power of AI on a Private Cloud: Pioneering Cancer Research  During one session, a senior

Private cloud is dead. Long live private cloud. · · 6 min read

Breaking free from legacy: A definitive guide to successful migration from VMware to KubeVirt- Part 3

In Part 2, we noted that migrations are complex, and examined some of the considerations that would be needed to move from VMware to KubeVirt. Here, in Part 3, we’ll tackle some of the other facets of migrations – specifically networking, validation, and post-migration considerations. Configuring VM Networking Networking plays a crucial role in VM

Breaking free from legacy: A definitive guide to successful migration from VMware to KubeVirt- Part 3 · · 3 min read
Migrate easily with a VMWare alternative

Breaking free from VMware’s uncertainty: How to save costs and future-proof your transition

Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has customers worried about higher prices and less innovation.  These worries were recently highlighted in this Silverlinings article VMware customers should find ‘exit ramps’ ahead of Broadcom deal. According to this article, Gartner has recommended that VMware customers “identify exit ramps for deployed products, including alternative solutions and migration activities”.  Another

Breaking free from VMware’s uncertainty: How to save costs and future-proof your transition · · 3 min read
Going Cloud Native - Part 1

Keeping up with cloud native is hard (Going Cloud Native, Part 1)

The pressure is on to go cloud native because it creates a better, more responsive, customer experience. Your journey to get there has been difficult and expensive and yet you’re a long way from arriving. You’re faced with a rapid rate of technology change in the Kubernetes ecosystem, complexity and scale needs, multiple locations that

Keeping up with cloud native is hard (Going Cloud Native, Part 1) · · 6 min read
Cloud Native IQ Self-Assessment

Grade your cloud-native maturity and find out how you can improve

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

Grade your cloud-native maturity and find out how you can improve · · 2 min read
Platform9 at KubeCon 2021

Five Enterprise Kubernetes Takeaways from KubeCon 2021, Los Angeles

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

Five Enterprise Kubernetes Takeaways from KubeCon 2021, Los Angeles · · 3 min read
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