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With a unique blend of technical experience - from IaaS, networking, Kubernetes, databases, and more - he helps large enterprises successfully adopt cloud, containers and modern technologies to accelerate application delivery and improve data center utilization.

Exploring Platform9's OpenStack Management as a Modern Virtualization Alternative

Exploring Platform9 Managed OpenStack as a modern virtualization alternative

OpenStack has always been viewed as an open-source innovation in the cloud computing world, offering a comprehensive suite of features for scalable cloud infrastructure and proven capabilities to replace VMware in the data center. However, OpenStack’s extensive functionality comes at the expense of complexity, with complex components such as Nova, Cinder, Neutron, and others making

Exploring Platform9 Managed OpenStack as a modern virtualization alternative · · 3 min read
Edge Computing

Transforming The Edge: Platform9 Introduces Highly-Available 2-Node Kubernetes Cluster

Traditionally, Kubernetes deployments required a minimum of three nodes, but this approach is often impractical in many environments. Space constraints and, more importantly, cost considerations pose challenges. This is especially true in edge computing scenarios, where adding a third server is neither practical nor necessary. The justification for additional computing power becomes elusive, resulting in

Transforming The Edge: Platform9 Introduces Highly-Available 2-Node Kubernetes Cluster · · 4 min read

Why Choosing the Right Kubernetes Partner is Critically Important

Enterprises are quickly adopting Kubernetes. In my role as field CTO here at Platform9 Systems, I speak to many of our prospects and current customers, and in every case, they are adopting Kubernetes at some level. And they’re looking at tools that can help them with their Kubernetes efforts. Note that I said “tools.” I

Why Choosing the Right Kubernetes Partner is Critically Important · · 4 min read

MongoDB with Kubernetes operator: 200 Million Inserts Per Hour Performance

by Peter Fray (Platform9) and Alessandro Catale (Comfone) There are plenty of articles describing how to setup MongoDB with a Kubernetes operator. However, is Kubernetes a viable solution for running high-performance MongoDB use cases? In this blog, we will describe a real-world application performance test that 200 million MongoDB document inserts and reads per hour

MongoDB with Kubernetes operator: 200 Million Inserts Per Hour Performance · · 5 min read
Platform9 Kubevirt Early Access is here

How To Set Up Kubevirt For Kubernetes Based VM Management

In this article, you will learn how to set up Kubevirt for Kubernetes based VM management. Kubevirt For VM Management Kubevirt is an open-source project that makes it possible for virtual machines to be manageand isd by Kubernetes. This means that Kubevirt VMs will be able to run on Pods, alongside containers – allowing you

How To Set Up Kubevirt For Kubernetes Based VM Management · · 5 min read

How to Migrate Your Existing Kubernetes Apps to a SaaS-managed Service

I travel across the US and everywhere I go there is a buzz around Kubernetes. From Silicon Valley companies jumping in with both feet and running Kubernetes workloads in production, to East Coast finserv and retail organizations, to middle America — everyone is digging in to understand the details and how best to take advantage

How to Migrate Your Existing Kubernetes Apps to a SaaS-managed Service · · 11 min read

7 Key Considerations for Kubernetes in Production

Today Enterprise IT does not question the value of containerized applications anymore. Given the move to adopting DevOps and cloud-native architectures, it is critical to leverage container capabilities in order to enable digital transformation. Google’s Kubernetes (K8s), an open source container orchestration system, has become the de facto standard — and the key enabler —

7 Key Considerations for Kubernetes in Production · · 9 min read

Solving the Kubernetes and Storage Challenge

Enterprise Infatuation with Kubernetes It seems that everyone is infatuated with Kubernetes.  Every organization has an active project with Kubernetes or planning one.   When adopting Kubernetes organizations are quickly realizing that many decisions need to be made and that Kubernetes is no simple thing.   Some common questions are: How will I deploy Kubernetes? Where will

Solving the Kubernetes and Storage Challenge · · 6 min read
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