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OpenStack Summit: Vote For Presentations

Platform9 has proposed a number of presentations for OpenStack Summit. Please cast your votes on those you want to hear at Sydney or on YouTube! Each of these presentations can be found using the these keyword(s) in its title. Customer Case Study: EBSCO on Remotely Managed OpenStack Using Remotely Managed OpenStack, EBSCO has been able […]

Kubernetes vs Amazon ECS

  In this updated blog post we’ll compare Kubernetes with Amazon ECS (EC2 Container Service). We’ll walk you through high-level discussions of Kubernetes and Amazon ECS, and then compare these two competing solutions. For completeness, we provide an overview of Kubernetes. If you have already read the previous posts which compare Kubernetes to Docker Swarm

Platform9 Multi-node Highly Available Glance Services

With Platform9 Managed OpenStack, administrators can authorize multiple hosts within a region to act as OpenStack Glance image library servers. Adding multiple image libraries has the following benefits: Creates a highly available Glance image service deployment that balances load for data-heavy block storage volume (cinder) and virtual machine instance (nova) provisioning operations. Eliminates downtime when

Kubernetes vs Mesos + Marathon

In this updated blog post we’ll compare Kubernetes with the Mesos + Marathon container orchestration solution. We’ll walk you through a high-level discussion of Kubernetes and Mesos with Marathon, look at their features, and cover their pros and cons. Overview of Kubernetes According to the Kubernetes website, “Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment,

Platform9 Raises Series C: Letter From the CEO

It gives me great pleasure to share the latest milestone in Platform9’s journey: our Series C financing led by Canvas Ventures. I am delighted to welcome Gary Little, with his wealth of experience, to our board of directors; and look forward to working with him closely as we build the industry leading hybrid cloud company.

Platform9 at Nutanix .NEXT in Washington, DC

Platform9 is proud to be a sponsor at Nutanix .NEXT in DC. We’ll be exhibiting at the show and demonstrating how our Platform9 Managed OpenStack can be leveraged with Nutanix’s hyperconverged hardware and Acropolis or VMware vSphere. With Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud Platform and Platform9 Managed OpenStack, you can deploy, expand and upgrade seamlessly. This combination

Kubernetes vs Docker Swarm

In this updated blog post we’ll compare Kubernetes (versions 1.5.0 and later) with Docker Swarm, also referred to as Docker Engine running in Swarm mode (versions 1.12.0 and later). Overview of Kubernetes According to the Kubernetes website, “Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.” Kubernetes was built by

Webinar Preview: Using Containers in Hybrid Clouds with Kubernetes

Bich Le, our Co-founder and Chief Architect continued his series of webinars on containers and Kubernetes on June 14. This time, he talked about using these technologies across on-premises and public cloud environments in a true hybrid cloud fashion. Containers have taken a large amount of developer mindshare and for good reason: they allow devs

Deploy Kubernetes In Five Different Ways

If you’re like many DevOps and IT teams, you want to reap the benefits of containers and container management. Getting started can be painful due to choosing amongst and implementing the numerous deployment models and installers, each with its pros and cons. Let us consider five of these briefly: 1. Deploy Kuberenetes with Minikube for

4 Ways to Connect with Platform9 at OpenStack Summit, Boston

OpenStack Summit, Boston is around the corner and Platform9’s remotely managed SaaS OpenStack and Kubernetes offerings will be showcased by various members of the Platform9 team: our founders, customer success managers, and developers will all be involved. As an Open source-as-a-Service company, we’re excited to share our cutting-edge updates at the open source community’s premier

Nutanix OpenStack with Platform9 and Liberty

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. Today we’re very excited to announce a new way to remove that complexity with Platform9’s Managed OpenStack product, for deployment, upgrade, monitoring and support for

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