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Demo of Platform9 Managed Kubernetes with Jenkins

Recently, we announced the beta release of Platform9 Managed Kubernetes, a SaaS-managed offering for Kubernetes. The “managed” experience means Platform9 handles all the nitty gritty details of Kubernetes deployment, configuration, ongoing monitoring, troubleshooting and upgrades. This lets software developers focus on using the Kubernetes APIs to build cloud-native applications, and DevOps teams can focus on realizing […]

Platform9 · July 26, 2016 · 1 min read

Docker Orchestration: Survey Results from DockerCon16

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

Sirish Raghuram · June 30, 2016 · 2 min read

Docker Takes a Page from the Internet Explorer Playbook

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

Sirish Raghuram · June 22, 2016 · 4 min read

Containers as a Service with Platform9 Managed Kubernetes for Docker

There are two reasons we’ve always been excited about Docker, containers and Kubernetes. Enabling a True Multi-Cloud Deployment For the past decade, it has been difficult to make application development (using virtualized infrastructure) truly multi-cloud, since virtual machines and guest OSes are inherently not portable. For example, it’s very easy to create and deploy virtual machines on

Madhura Maskasky · June 20, 2016 · 3 min read

Box Adopts Platform9 and Other 2015 Highlights

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

Sirish Raghuram · January 5, 2016 · 3 min read

Public Cloud vs Private Cloud: Six Key Insights

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

Sirish Raghuram · October 15, 2015 · 3 min read

Platform9 Raises Series B to Accelerate Enterprise Success with OpenStack Private Clouds

I am excited to share that Platform9 has closed a Series B round led by Menlo Ventures and with participation from existing investor Redpoint Ventures. Menlo Ventures Managing Director Mark Siegel joins the Platform9 board alongside Redpoint Ventures’ Scott Raney. This round sets up Platform9 to scale to support a much larger customer base in the enterprise,

Sirish Raghuram · August 17, 2015 · 4 min read

Platform9 Is Heading to Cloud Expo Europe 2015, London!

We are excited to be exhibiting at Cloud Expo Europe 2015, Europe’s largest event in the Cloud Computing Space. The event is scheduled in London from March 11 to March 12, 2015 and we are at Booth no: 266. Representing Platform9 at the event are our partners in the UK from Xscalo. Based in London, Xscalo is the UK’s only

Platform9 · March 6, 2015 · 1 min read

The Rise of Cloud-Managed Data Centers

My co-founder and CEO Sirish Raghuram recently posted Platform9’s 2015 Predictions on VMBlog. We think the topic is important enough that it deserves its own blog post. 2014 marked the year when Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) became a common term in the dictionary of enterprise IT. When first coined as a term by VMware and published during

Madhura Maskasky · January 5, 2015 · 2 min read

On Standardization of Containers

Last week was a big one for Docker and the container space. Docker made some exciting product announcements at DockerCon Europe. Simultaneously, CoreOS announced it’s effort to define an Open Container Format in the form of ‘App Containers’ and Rocket. The community responded with a strong reaction. Some raised questions about the benefit of alternate container engine

Madhura Maskasky · December 10, 2014 · 3 min read

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