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7 Insights into AWS’ Outposts announcement at re:Invent and the future of hybrid cloud

At Amazon’s re:Invent 2018 conference, Amazon finally announced their venture into on-premises data-centers, called AWS Outposts. Just a few years ago, this would have been unthinkable, given how Amazon executives would proclaim the inevitable death of on-premises infrastructure and private clouds. While AWS Outposts is in a very early technical preview, I wanted to share

Sirish Raghuram · November 30, 2018 · 5 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

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

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

Platform9 · February 3, 2015 · 18 min read