We are proud to be awarded as the most “Promising technology company” at the forefront of tackling customer challenges. We empower our customers to accelerate their Enterprise cloud-native journey with Distributed Cloud Architecture. Siliconindia is the most prominent and oldest magazine (since August 1997) covering business and technology in the U.S. and India. Every year […]
· July 15, 2022 · 2 min read
Platform9’s vision is to democratize cloud computing with an open, distributed cloud architecture. Their SaaS Kubernetes platform helps enterprises deploy and manage clusters across edge, private, and public clouds thus enabling them to implement an “Open Distributed Cloud.”
· June 17, 2022 · 2 min read
Celesta Capital led the most recent financing round in Platform9. Here’s why we invested in the company.
· June 14, 2022 · 4 min read
Cloud native scale, availability, resilience and velocity done easy using Kubernetes and microservices. If only it was as simple as that. Install Kubernetes, deploy your containers and like magic, you get all benefits of cloud native immediately. Unfortunately cloud native isn’t just about the tooling. Kubernetes enables cloud native, it doesn’t deliver cloud native. Not
· April 29, 2022 · 4 min read
Most companies are at the early stages of the cloud-native journey and can benefit by leveraging knowledge and insight from others to accelerate this mission-critical transformation. Platform9 has spent the past eight years supporting companies like Juniper Networks, Kingfisher, and Redfin in their cloud-native journey, sharing and gathering best practices along the way. Platform9 has
· December 13, 2021 · 2 min read
Recently, we set out to answer an age-old Kubernetes mystery – “what’s different about my cluster’s profile RBAC”. Let’s say you are managing 3 environments for many developer teams. The promotion lifecycle goes “Development”, “Staging”, then “Production”. The Development environment is an internal, safe place for developers to develop. It’s not highly available or has
· November 16, 2021 · 6 min read
At the KubeCon show in LA, we conducted a survey of 567 attendees who gave us insight into their use of Kubernetes. Here are the five most important takeaways from the survey results: 1. Autoscaling, speed, portability – top reasons to adopt Kubernetes KubeCon attendees tend to be advanced users of Kubernetes so the
· October 29, 2021 · 3 min read
Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) release version 5.4 is now available. This new version brings support for Kubernetes 1.21, new dashboards for Workloads and Storage, the containerd runtime, and other fixes and improvements. Platform9 is also excited to announce the Profile Engine, which is a new cluster governance and policy management feature that leverages the SaaS
· October 21, 2021 · 6 min read
In this article, we will take a look at the pieces that make up Platform9 Managed Kubernetes, talk about the distinct security benefits that our SaaS Managed architecture brings to your enterprise Kubernetes environment, and discuss how our architecture enables us to deliver 99.9% uptime SLA while helping you run a secure and enterprise grade
· August 17, 2021 · 9 min read
In our final release of 2020, we now support multiple versions of Kubernetes running across your clusters with support for 1.17 and 1.18, we have introduced One-Click Cluster Creation for AWS, Azure, and BareOS, added enhancements to our Managed Calico CNI, and more. Oh, and a whole new user experience, we rebuilt our web app
· December 18, 2020 · 8 min readIn our previous blog on why bare metal cannot, yet, be operated as a cloud, we outlined the problem in our industry about how bare metal management is critical in industries like retail, 5G and Telco, and research, as well as for use-cases such as private cloud elasticity and high-performance computing (HPC). Yet, today bare
· December 16, 2020 · 7 min read
Kubernetes wasn’t designed as a change management tool, and you perhaps have never thought about it as being one. Yet in several ways, Kubernetes helps to smooth over the biggest pain-points that IT organizations face when managing change. IT Change Management Challenges To understand how Kubernetes can improve change management, you must first understand the
· August 5, 2020 · 5 min read