In HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones, the mythical seven kingdoms are preparing for winter brought on by a force of zombie-like creatures called “White Walkers.” The phrase “winter is coming” is repeated throughout the course of the series, foreshadowing perils that lie ahead. With the changing seasons upon us, let’s consider what challenges are in […]
· October 25, 2018 · 5 min read
Kubernetes has emerged as the defacto standard in enabling IT to build out digital architectures to deliver on their business goals, and it is now a “must have” for whatever your organization’s level of digital maturity is. In this article, Vamsi Chemitiganti talks about the five fundamental business capabilities that Kubernetes can drive in the
· October 22, 2018 · 10 min read
Cloud Management is a key aspect organizations are looking at on their journey to becoming a software-driven enterprise – in order to simplify operations, increase IT efficiency and reduce datacenter costs. Enterprise IT has to juggle supporting many different types of applications (legacy, mainframe, monolithic, cloud-native apps, microservices, serverless, and more) – each requiring their
· October 9, 2018 · 8 min read
If you haven’t already done so, the thought of your enterprise using cloud computing must have crossed your mind, right? The key business imperative driving moves to new data center architectures are their ability to natively support digital applications. Digital applications are “Cloud Native” (CN) in the sense that these interactive applications are originally written
· September 17, 2018 · 8 min read
We’re excited to share that Platform9 received the 2018 Stratus Award for Cloud Computing in the “Hybrid Cloud Provider” category. The Stratus Award from Business Intelligence Group recognizes companies and individuals innovating in the Cloud that provide solutions which are truly differentiated in the market. Platform9 was chosen for our unique offering – providing the industry’s only enterprise-grade,
· August 29, 2018 · 2 min read
See Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. Cloud Management is one of the key areas that CTOs and CIOs need to make investments in in the coming years. In the previous 2 posts in this series, we discussed the challenges with existing cloud management platforms and the 5 key capabilities of CMPs.
· July 31, 2018 · 7 min read
See part 1 of this series here. The Ovum Decision Matrix Research Report discusses the impact of two major shifts in cloud adoption: The growing impact of Shadow IT in enterprises. The need to migrate workloads to the cloud. We also see a clear third shift: the need to develop Cloud Native applications for
· July 26, 2018 · 3 min read
At Platform9, we work daily with some of the leading enterprises, across a wide range of industries – from Financial Services, Internet, Retail, Embedded, and more. A key question we get asked often is how enterprises can transition to becoming Cloud Native (CN) or Digitally Native (DN) businesses. The journey to becoming a truly software-driven,
· July 23, 2018 · 6 min read
The high profile implosion of General Electric’s (GE) ambitious digital strategy has caught the attention of many practitioners and IT leaders over the last few months. GE is an iconic business conglomerate with major operations in Aerospace, Transportation and Power, along with a major financing arm. GE has embarked on a massive digital transformation strategy
· July 19, 2018 · 9 min read
Last week I had the honor of speaking at GeekWire’s Cloud Tech Summit in Bellevue, WA. The event was a huge success, featuring a full day of talks, interviews, and presentations that painted a clearer picture of this fast-changing world. The programming had a great selection of talks around the issues that are relevant and
· July 3, 2018 · 2 min read
I had the pleasure of speaking at the recent HPE Discover conference, that took place last week in Las Vegas, and saw thousands of attendees – ranging from Fortune 500 companies to Cloud Service Providers to Partners. First off, it was fascinating to see HPE, one of ‘original’ tech companies, turn on a dime to
· June 25, 2018 · 6 min read
In today’s market customers take Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for granted. It used to be that a customer would have to go to a software vendor and either buy bundled software that they would then bring back to their data center to install, or purchase it from a third-party implementor and have them install it for them.
· June 7, 2018 · 5 min read