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The Easy Button for VMware Private Cloud Is Here!

Back in January, we made our SaaS delivered Cloud Management-as-a-Service solution generally available to the public, with initial support for new and existing KVM environments. Since then, we’ve seen an increasing number of customers who have bought into the concept of an easy button for private clouds where they can focus on building applications and leveraging existing infrastructure management […]

Platform9 · August 17, 2015 · 6 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

Explaining How VMware vSphere ESXi Integrates with OpenStack

One of the more interesting developments that we are seeing within our customer base and among the users we speak with regularly is the growing desire to understand OpenStack hypervisor support and leverage OpenStack as a “manager of managers” for different types of technologies such as server virtualization and containers. This lines up with the messaging

Platform9 · August 12, 2015 · 11 min read

OpenStack Upgrades Made Easy: The Cloud-Native Way

Anyone who has ever attempted to upgrade a cloud platform, be it from Microsoft, OpenStack, or VMware, will readily attest that doing so in a live production environment is not for the faint of heart. No Cloud Admin wants to suffer through a failed upgrade that causes a production cloud to be degraded, unavailable, or

Platform9 · August 4, 2015 · 9 min read

[Updated] VMware vSphere with OpenStack: We Can Do Better

This blog post has been updated to include details on a related talk we’ve proposed for the upcoming OpenStack Summit. You can find out more about the voting process and learn about other talks submitted by Platform9 by reading our prior blog post. VMware vSphere and OpenStack are the shining stars in their respective fields –

Platform9 · July 28, 2015 · 5 min read

Vote for Platform9 Proposed Talks at the Tokyo OpenStack Summit

The Tokyo OpenStack Summit is only three months away and the process to choose the various talks and workshops that will be given at the Summit has begun. For the Vancouver Summit in April, the Platform9 team submitted three (3) talks; for the Tokyo Summit, we’ve stepped things up and submitted fifteen (15) talks and workshops.

Platform9 · July 24, 2015 · 7 min read

Platform9 OpenStack Cloud, Version 1.2 Is Here!

Six months ago we made our SaaS delivered Cloud Management-as-a-Service solution generally available to the public. Since then, a growing number of Platform9 customers have realized the benefits of transforming their on-premises infrastructure into an agile private cloud. Our customers have been able to enable their developers to be more productive than ever, while leveraging

Platform9 · July 21, 2015 · 4 min read

Under the Covers of the Platform9 OpenStack Architecture

Platform9’s mission is to make private clouds easy for enterprises at any scale. This means creating a solution that provide some important benefits for our customers including: A private cloud that is not only simple to deploy but also simple to manage. At Platform9, we decided that the best way we could make that a reality

Platform9 · July 7, 2015 · 8 min read

Deep Dive: Virtual Machine Placement in OpenStack

Virtual machine (VM) or cloud instance placement is one of the most crucial components of a private cloud. Good placement of VMs across the cloud compute infrastructure ensures that the VM has access to the resources specified by a cloud user, delivers balanced performance given the available capacity, and ensures adherence to organizational policies such

Platform9 · June 23, 2015 · 6 min read

Zero-Touch OpenStack Upgrade: Every Administrator’s Dream

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

Madhura Maskasky · April 1, 2015 · 3 min read

A Recipe for Continuous Integration Using an OpenStack Private Cloud

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

Madhura Maskasky · March 16, 2015 · 5 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

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