We’re very excited to announce a new release this week of Platform9 Managed OpenStack, our SaaS-based OpenStack private cloud offering! With this release, we have upgraded all components to run their respective OpenStack Liberty versions. Those familiar with OpenStack understand the pain involved with not only setting up an entire OpenStack cloud, but also managing the periodic upgrades. This
· April 28, 2016 · 3 min read
Platform9 gearing up for OpenStack Summit in Austin later this month, and it is shaping up to be a great event! We are especially excited about the Platform9 OpenStack sessions that were selected for the agenda. Thanks for voting for us and mark your calendars to make sure you attend these sessions. Panel: Pros and Cons of
· April 4, 2016 · 3 min read
The Platform9 team is gearing up for the OpenStack Summit, and we’re excited to participate! We’ve proposed a handful of talks and would appreciate your support (vote!) to include our talks on the conference agenda. Click the links below to learn more about each talk and vote. See you in Austin…and may the best talks
· February 11, 2016 · 4 min read
It’s Tech Field Day 2016, where Platform9 CEO Sirish Raghuram and Chief Architect Bich Le presented on Wednesday February 3, 2016 from 9:30am-11:30am Central Time. Agenda includes deep dives into Platform9 Managed OpenStack, plus a peek into our labs to see what Bich and the team are cooking up. Watch the video recordings here
· February 2, 2016 · 1 min read
One of the reasons customers choose Platform9 as their cloud management platform is because it easily integrates with existing virtualized environments. Customers find great value in the ability to take their current VMware vSphere and/or KVM environment and transform them into a self-service private cloud – without having to create a separate silo or provision new and expensive
· January 19, 2016 · 6 min read
For any cloud administrator, one of the essential starting points for managing their cloud deployment is to ensure there is a consistent set of base images from which appropriate instances can be spawned. A popular tool that helps with such cloud image management is Packer, developed by HashiCorp, the makers of Vagrant. Packer allows you
· January 13, 2016 · 6 min read
Platform9 recently announced beta support for OpenStack Neutron networking. In this blog post, I explain the differences between Linux bridges and Open vSwitch and why Platform9 chose one over the other. I have come across quite a few people who are very excited to get onboard with deploying OpenStack and bringing up their own private clouds.
· December 2, 2015 · 4 min read
One of the benefits that Platform9 customers most value with our managed cloud offering is the ability to take advantage of new innovations and capabilities without having to shoulder the burden that often comes with new software releases. This includes all the testing that needs to be performed prior to putting new technology in production. It includes
· November 18, 2015 · 3 min read
Have you ever botched your VM’s network configuration? Maybe you forgot to allow SSH traffic in your firewall settings? How do you fix the network configuration when you cannot even SSH into your VM? One usually sits in front of their physical machine to fix such issues. But with the advent of virtualization, there is
· November 11, 2015 · 4 min read
It’s been few days since the most recent OpenStack Summit ended and the word that comes to mind when I reflect on the week that just past is “stability.” Some may even call it boring and that is a good thing. This is not to say there wasn’t exciting news such as new customer use cases
· November 5, 2015 · 4 min read
We are only a week away from the next OpenStack Summit and I am happy to report that Platform9 will have our biggest presence yet at any Summit. This is a testament not only to our growth as a company but our growing commitment to the OpenStack community. We would love to engage with you in
· October 20, 2015 · 4 min read
OpenStack Image Management One of the most fundamental functions of an any cloud platform is the management of virtual machine images. In OpenStack, this functionality is mostly taken care of by the Glance collection of services. Glance services provide a repository for virtual machine images and metadata, and endpoints for delivering the OpenStack cloud images to
· September 30, 2015 · 5 min read