Picture this (rather familiar) scenario. It’s that dreaded time of the year again – your OpenStack upgrade (or perhaps VMware vCloud upgrade) is long overdue. You know that the latest security updates and patches must be applied else your environment will be at a high security risk. After several months of procrastinating-the-unpleasant (some call it […]
· April 1, 2015 · 3 min read
A few weeks ago, my co-founder Bich ran a fantastic post on How We Run Platform9 on Platform9. Since then, we’ve been asked many times for our recipe on using Continuous Integration (CI/CD) with OpenStack. This post describes such a recipe for Platform9 customers or other OpenStack users, for use with Jenkins or Teamcity based continuous integration. Building a Software-as-a-Service
· March 16, 2015 · 5 min read
We are excited to announce that we will be sponsoring the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver from May 18 – 22, 2015. Stay tuned for booth details. The Platform9 team has proposed three great talks for the OpenStack Summit. We need your help: your votes help the talks get approved! Please see the links below to learn more about the talks and
· February 20, 2015 · 1 min read
Can we have our cake and eat it too? After months of development from conception to full production use, that is a question we’ve been asking ourselves of our own private instance of Platform9 Managed OpenStack. We affectionately call it “dogfood” and use it to run a major part of our daily business: continuous integration
· February 3, 2015 · 18 min read
15 months ago, we founded Platform9 because we had a dream. A dream that private clouds could be simple, and easy, and inexpensive for all organizations. That the customizability, control and features available in data center computing would not be lost because putting them together was so hard that few could do so successfully. There was a fair amount of skepticism
· January 20, 2015 · 2 min read
The time when IT used one virtualization platform for server consolidation seems long past. Cost and performance tradeoffs have led to IT Administrators deploying multiple virtualization technologies, some for production and some for dev/test use. Rebel developers profess their love for a new found religion. Containers, they say, are the way forward. Some even swear to never boot
· December 5, 2014 · 1 min read
At Platform9, we believe that managing your datacenter should be as simple and elegant as using a Nest Thermostat. Our simple, intuitive web interface lets you set up your private cloud and then monitor and use it in minutes, with our SaaS platform doing all the heavy lifting. We’re so confident about our model that
· August 21, 2014 · 2 min read
Hello, world! Welcome to Platform9, where we are re-imagining the private cloud experience. Genesis Platform9’s genesis goes back to our founding team’s experience as early engineers at VMware, our alma mater that disrupted computing infrastructure with some fantastic technology. Over the years, we came to the realization that managing virtualization infrastructure was hard, and time
· August 12, 2014 · 1 min read