The Tokyo OpenStack Summit is only three months away and the process to choose the various talks and workshops that will be given at the Summit has begun. For the Vancouver Summit in April, the Platform9 team submitted three (3) talks; for the Tokyo Summit, we’ve stepped things up and submitted fifteen (15) talks and workshops.
· July 24, 2015 · 7 min read
Six months ago we made our SaaS delivered Cloud Management-as-a-Service solution generally available to the public. Since then, a growing number of Platform9 customers have realized the benefits of transforming their on-premises infrastructure into an agile private cloud. Our customers have been able to enable their developers to be more productive than ever, while leveraging
· July 21, 2015 · 4 min read
Platform9’s mission is to make private clouds easy for enterprises at any scale. This means creating a solution that provide some important benefits for our customers including: A private cloud that is not only simple to deploy but also simple to manage. At Platform9, we decided that the best way we could make that a reality
· July 7, 2015 · 8 min read
Virtual machine (VM) or cloud instance placement is one of the most crucial components of a private cloud. Good placement of VMs across the cloud compute infrastructure ensures that the VM has access to the resources specified by a cloud user, delivers balanced performance given the available capacity, and ensures adherence to organizational policies such
· June 23, 2015 · 6 min read
We are excited to be exhibiting at Cloud Expo Europe 2015, Europe’s largest event in the Cloud Computing Space. The event is scheduled in London from March 11 to March 12, 2015 and we are at Booth no: 266. Representing Platform9 at the event are our partners in the UK from Xscalo. Based in London, Xscalo is the UK’s only
· March 6, 2015 · 1 min read
We are excited to announce that we will be sponsoring the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver from May 18 – 22, 2015. Stay tuned for booth details. The Platform9 team has proposed three great talks for the OpenStack Summit. We need your help: your votes help the talks get approved! Please see the links below to learn more about the talks and
· February 20, 2015 · 1 min read
Can we have our cake and eat it too? After months of development from conception to full production use, that is a question we’ve been asking ourselves of our own private instance of Platform9 Managed OpenStack. We affectionately call it “dogfood” and use it to run a major part of our daily business: continuous integration
· February 3, 2015 · 18 min read
The time when IT used one virtualization platform for server consolidation seems long past. Cost and performance tradeoffs have led to IT Administrators deploying multiple virtualization technologies, some for production and some for dev/test use. Rebel developers profess their love for a new found religion. Containers, they say, are the way forward. Some even swear to never boot
· December 5, 2014 · 1 min read