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[Video] KubeVirt – Beyond Containers: Coming full circle back to VMs!

Earlier today we had the pleasure of presenting at a CNCF-hosted webinar about KubeVirt. KubeVirt is a set of Kubernetes CRDs and controllers (an Operator) that lets you run virtual machines on Kubernetes! In this webinar we discussed: Introduction of KubeVirt, its concepts and architecture Key use cases where you can already take advantage of

Edge Computing: Challenges and Opportunities

The age of Edge computing has finally dawned. The rapid developments in digital and mobile technologies have made Edge computing increasingly more prevalent, and more critical to the success of businesses across a wide range of industries. What is Edge Computing: Edge computing essentially takes memory and computing out of the traditional data center to

Introducing the Industry’s First Managed Kubernetes Service on VMware

Kubernetes is the #1 enabler for cloud-native applications and is critical to the competitive advantage for software-driven organizations today. VMware is probably the most popular virtualization infrastructure solution among large enterprises. Many organizations that have on-prem data centers have traditionally been using VMware to manage their IT environment. Unfortunately, VMware was never designed to run

Kubernetes as a Cloud-Native Operating System – On-Premises, Too!

The best Kubernetes architecture for your organization depends on your needs and goals, of course. Kubernetes is often described as a cloud-native technology, and it certainly qualifies as one. However, the cloud-native concept does not exclude the use of on-premises infrastructure in cases where it makes sense. Sometimes, there are advantages to running Kubernetes deployments

Kubernetes Helm: Why It Matters

Kubernetes Helm, by making application deployment easy, standardized and reusable, improves developer productivity, reduces deployment complexity, enhances operational readiness, and speeds up the adoption of cloud native apps. These applications can be sourced from open-source community provided repositories, or from an organization’s internal repository of customized application blueprints. In much the same way that the

Announcing Mors – A Lease Manager for OpenStack

One of the major use cases for using private cloud & OpenStack is running labs; these labs can be for your dev, qa or sales organization. In these labs, OpenStack is used to create various infrastructure objects (Instances, Images, Volumes etc) on demand for development, test or demonstration purposes.  OpenStack makes it very easy to

Re-Imagining Private Clouds

Hello, world! Welcome to Platform9, where we are re-imagining the private cloud experience. Genesis Platform9’s genesis goes back to our founding team’s experience as early engineers at VMware, our alma mater that disrupted computing infrastructure with some fantastic technology. Over the years, we came to the realization that managing virtualization infrastructure was hard, and time

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