Last week, I joined many of my team members at Platform9, and 1000s in the Kubernetes community at KubeCon 2017 in Austin, TX. My takeaway: enterprise Kubernetes momentum is incredible, but several challenges remain and we have a lot of important work to do. Over 200 respondents participated in our survey on the state of
· December 12, 2017 · 4 min read
AWS acquiescence with Kubernetes could prove a defining moment in evolution of cloud computing, paradoxically making AWS less differentiated over time For the past decade, Amazon Web Services has been on a seemingly unending winning streak, launching innovative service after service with breathtaking velocity. This hot streak has had massive follow-on effects on the world
· November 27, 2017 · 4 min read
It gives me great pleasure to share the latest milestone in Platform9’s journey: our Series C financing led by Canvas Ventures. I am delighted to welcome Gary Little, with his wealth of experience, to our board of directors; and look forward to working with him closely as we build the industry leading hybrid cloud company.
· June 28, 2017 · 3 min read
It’s a great pleasure to announce that Madhura Maskasky, Platform9 co-founder and vice president of product, is being recognized as one of the most innovative women in cloud technology. Madhura is among 12 women being honored by CloudNOW, the executive consortium for the leading women in cloud and converging technologies, as part of their 5th
· November 1, 2016 · 2 min read
Originally published in The New Stack The old Chinese proverb, “May you live in interesting times,” is certainly bearing out for the infrastructure technology market. Recently, Boris Renski, co-founder of OpenStack vendor Mirantis, argued that the whole Infrastructure Software market is now dead (and that he has made his peace with it). To make his point,
· July 1, 2016 · 4 min read
Docker orchestration was a hot topic at DockerCon 2016 where thousands of DevOps teams gathered in Seattle last week to learn more about containerizing workloads for more agile and efficient application development. We talked to hundreds of people during the show, and conducted a short survey in our booth to take a quick pulse of this DevOps crowd on
· June 30, 2016 · 2 min read
In the late 90s, I had a short-sighted reaction to Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer with the Windows OS. While the technology world grappled with the legalities, ethics and impact to competition, I was just happy to have a browser that was faster and easier to use. I’m writing this at DockerCon16, where yesterday’s keynote reminded me
· June 22, 2016 · 4 min read
This week, we announced that Platform9 is a 2016 Cool Vendor for Cloud Management by Gartner, Inc. What does this mean for OpenStack providers and customers? In this post, I’d like to dive deeper and share three insights why this honor is significant. First OpenStack Provider Named a Cool Vendor in Cloud Management Gartner’s annual Cool Vendor honors are like the “Dean’s
· April 12, 2016 · 2 min read
“With Amazon Web Services I can manage multiple regions of distributed infrastructure. Can I do multi-region management with Platform9?” I get this question a lot, and I’m happy to say the answer is yes! Today we announced our multi-region management, capabilities that enable and enhance management of distributed resources from a single pane of glass within Platform9 Managed OpenStack.
· February 10, 2016 · 2 min read
Happy New Year and welcome to 2016! Box Adopts Platform9 What better way to kick off the new year than with good news? This morning we announced that Box has adopted Platform9’s OpenStack-based private cloud solution to enable DevOps efficiency across two datacenters, serving multiple developer, QA and IT teams at the company. Why did Box
· January 5, 2016 · 3 min read
Last week I had the pleasure of catching up with GE Cloud Infrastructure Architect Cody Hill when he swung by our Silicon Valley office. In a Q&A session with the Platform9 team, Cody shared his perspective on cloud computing, public vs. private cloud, OpenStack, containers, SaaS and more. Here are the highlights: Sirish Raghuram (SR):
· November 4, 2015 · 8 min read
Last week, I joined the Platform9 team at the Amazon re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. It was exciting to be a part of the premier industry conference for cloud infrastructure and to learn from great conversations I had with others at the show. It became clear to me that for those attending AWS re:Invent, it’s not
· October 15, 2015 · 3 min read