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Zero-Touch OpenStack Upgrade: Every Administrator’s Dream

By Madhura Maskasky

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... Read More

A Recipe for Continuous Integration Using an OpenStack Private Cloud

By Madhura Maskasky

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)... Read More

Platform9 Is Heading to Cloud Expo Europe 2015, London!

By Platform9

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... Read More

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

By Platform9

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... Read More

Running Platform9 on Platform9

By 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... Read More

A Dream Realized: Announcing General Availability for KVM

By Sirish Raghuram

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... Read More

The Rise of Cloud-Managed Data Centers

By Madhura Maskasky

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... Read More

On Standardization of Containers

By Madhura Maskasky

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... Read More

The Melting Pot In Virtualized Datacenters

By Platform9

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... Read More

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