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Under the Covers of the Platform9 OpenStack Architecture

By Platform9

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... Read More

July 7, 2015

Deep Dive: Virtual Machine Placement in OpenStack

By Platform9

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... Read More

June 23, 2015

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

April 1, 2015

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

March 16, 2015

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

March 6, 2015

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

February 20, 2015

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

February 3, 2015

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

January 20, 2015

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

January 5, 2015

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