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 […]
· August 12, 2015 · 11 min read
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
· August 4, 2015 · 9 min read
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 –
· July 28, 2015 · 5 min read
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.
· July 24, 2015 · 7 min read
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
· July 21, 2015 · 4 min read
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
· July 7, 2015 · 8 min read
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
· June 23, 2015 · 6 min read
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 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
· March 6, 2015 · 1 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