Category: OpenStack

This post was authored by Chris Brown, Solutions Marketing at Nutanix OpenStack is a powerful tool for managing private clouds, but that power has historically come with a price: complexity…. Read More

In any enterprise-grade cloud offering, Virtual Machine High Availability (HA) is a must have feature. Until now, HA features were available only on virtual infrastructures like VMware, Hyper-V, etc. With… Read More

In Platform9’s 2.5 release (February 2017), we’ve made some major changes to the way we’re deploying keystone, and we’re on our way to making keystone more scalable and highly available…. Read More

At Platform9, we have witnessed first-hand how the rapid growth of public cloud usage among developers has led enterprises to embrace the promise of development agility by setting up their… Read More

Gartner has predicted that by 2020, a corporate “no public-cloud” policy will be as rare (or as ridiculous) as a corporate “no-internet” policy would be today. Hybrid cloud will be… Read More

UPDATE: Note that GluserFS Cinder support was deprecated in OpenStack Newton & will not be supported on Platform9 as of 3.6 release. Traditional hardware-based storage has two issues: scalability and… Read More

Amobee, an advertising company in Redwood City, CA, started working with Platform9 to streamline their infrastructure with virtualization. Since then, Amobee’s Systems Engineering team has seen major improvements in efficiency… Read More

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

In any enterprise-grade cloud offering, Virtual Machine High Availability (HA) is a must have feature for ensuring application availability despite infrastructure failures. Architecting cloud with consideration to HA helps protect… Read More