VMware has returned to the lower end of the virtualization market with a new offering labeled VMware Express. Unlike VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware Express is distributed only through Broadcom’s partner network. Advertised as a solution for smaller environments requiring “essential” virtualization capabilities, the offering is effectively “VMware in a Box”. Let’s take a look
· November 11, 2026 · 5 min readEnterprise infrastructure teams are at a pivotal moment. Private clouds have never been more important for organizations, as new workloads demand on-premises deployment. At the same time, VMware’s licensing and business model changes under Broadcom are forcing many organizations to evaluate alternatives for a private cloud foundation. The immediate need is clear: a reliable, enterprise-grade
· June 18, 2025 · 7 min readGartner just published a research note titled “Estimating a Large-Scale VMware Migrations” that details the burdens expected for large-sized companies moving off of VMware. The Register’s Simon Sharwood wrote an article on this research note. He highlighted the concerns tens of thousands of VMware customers are facing that large-scale migrations are daunting, often taking
· January 30, 2025 · 3 min readWe are launching Arlon – a Kubernetes native tool for complete end-to-end cluster configuration and lifecycle management, security policy and application, using a declarative approach. In this post, I will discuss why declarative management of infrastructure is important for your Kubernetes clusters, challenges around Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management and how the Cluster API (CAPI) project
· September 20, 2022 · 5 min read
Last week I had the honor of speaking at GeekWire’s Cloud Tech Summit in Bellevue, WA. The event was a huge success, featuring a full day of talks, interviews, and presentations that painted a clearer picture of this fast-changing world. The programming had a great selection of talks around the issues that are relevant and
· July 3, 2018 · 2 min read
What is Calico? Project Calico is designed to simplify, scale, and secure cloud networks. The open source framework enables Kubernetes networking and network policy for clusters across the cloud. It was originally designed for today’s modern cloud-native world and runs on both public and private clouds. Within the Kubernetes ecosystem, Calico is starting to emerge
· April 17, 2018 · 3 min read
Platform9 Managed Kubernetes: An Overview Enterprise infrastructure environments can benefit from Platform9’s Managed Kubernetes services that enable onboarding in minutes (typically 30 minutes), provide ongoing operational monitoring with committed 24/7/365 SLAs, troubleshooting and orchestration of Kubernetes upgrades. Platform9’s infrastructure-agnostic Managed Kubernetes service works across all public clouds and on-premise infrastructure environments: bare metal, enterprise Linux,
· January 23, 2018 · 3 min readKubernetes simplifies container management, including the deployment, discoverability, scale, high availability, and serviceability of containerized applications. We’ve learned from customer conversations and our own experience, that although Kubernetes is powerful and offers the right building blocks, enterprises often struggle with the deployment of Kubernetes at scale. Challenges hindering Kubernetes adoption in the production environment include:
· January 10, 2018 · 4 min read
Gartner has predicted that by 2020, a corporate “no public-cloud” policy will be as rare (or as ridiculous) as a corporate “no-internet” policy would be today. Hybrid cloud will be the most common implementation among enterprises. Multi-cloud has become the new standard and a lot of organizations see it as a necessary evil. Organizations cannot
· October 26, 2016 · 3 min read
In any enterprise-grade cloud offering, Virtual Machine High Availability (HA) is a must have feature for ensuring application availability despite infrastructure failures. Architecting cloud with consideration to HA helps protect cloud native as well as traditional applications against failures. Until now, HA features were available only on virtual infrastructures like VMware, Hyper-V, etc. With Platform9
· August 24, 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
If you missed Udy Gold’s presentation on the benefits of public vs. private cloud at the OpenStack Summit, here it is! If you don’t have 37 minutes to watch the entire video, here’s a quick recap of what he had to say about his “cloud-hopping” journey. Udy Gold is vice president of Data Center and
· May 11, 2016 · 7 min read