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Vote for Platform9’s Proposed Talks at the Vancouver OpenStack Summit

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 […]

Running Platform9 on Platform9

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

A Dream Realized: Announcing General Availability for KVM

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

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

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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

The Melting Pot In Virtualized Datacenters

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

Take Platform9 on a Test Drive at VMworld 2014

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

Re-Imagining Private Clouds

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

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