Roopak Parikh, Author at Platform9

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Co-founder and CTO at Platform9

Roopak envisioned the technology powering Platform9, and now leads our Engineering wizards in the quest to realize this vision. Roopak likes to work with customers in designing solutions and solving technical challenges. He also leads incubation projects within the organization and loves talking about everything from latest javascript frameworks to blockchain technologies.

Before co-founding Platform9, Roopak was a technical lead at VMware, where he helped architect and ship major vSphere products: Update Manager and vCloud Director. Before VMware, Roopak was an early engineer at an early stage Mobile computing startup.

Outside of work, Roopak is a fan of audiobooks, likes cooking, following sports, and keeping up with his kids on the soccer field.

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

By Roopak Parikh

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... Read More

Edge Computing: Challenges and Opportunities

By Roopak Parikh

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... Read More

Introducing the Industry’s First Managed Kubernetes Service on VMware

By Roopak Parikh

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... Read More

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

By Roopak Parikh

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,... Read More

Kubernetes Helm: Why It Matters

By Roopak Parikh

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... Read More

Protected: SDN for Kubernetes – OpenContrail and Platform9 bring a simple a secure container networking solution for enterprises

By Roopak Parikh

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Announcing Mors – A Lease Manager for OpenStack

By Roopak Parikh

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... Read More

Re-Imagining Private Clouds

By Roopak Parikh

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... Read More

Posts by Roopak Parikh

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

By Roopak Parikh

Edge Computing: Challenges and Opportunities

By Roopak Parikh

Introducing the Industry’s First Managed Kubernetes Service on VMware

By Roopak Parikh

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

By Roopak Parikh

Kubernetes Helm: Why It Matters

By Roopak Parikh

Protected: SDN for Kubernetes – OpenContrail and Platform9 bring a simple a secure container networking solution for enterprises

By Roopak Parikh

Announcing Mors – A Lease Manager for OpenStack

By Roopak Parikh

Re-Imagining Private Clouds

By Roopak Parikh

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