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Platform9 Private Cloud Director: The private cloud platform that makes sense and cents

Recently, our competitor has raised their minimum licensing from 16 to 72 cores and introduced late renewal penalties. This significantly increases virtualization pricing for small businesses relying on their software (up to 4.5X more) and reduces profitability for channel partners. While these moves may boost their revenue, they lack true value and a customer-centered philosophy.

Platform9 · April 2, 2025 · 2 min read

Why choose Platform9 for your private cloud needs?

The IT landscape is rapidly evolving, and enterprises realize that private cloud solutions are required to unlock greater operational agility, cost-efficiency, and control over their infrastructure. However, disruptive changes to enterprise cloud solution providers have IT teams challenged with vendor lock-in, skyrocketing costs, and capability gaps for desired private cloud agility. That’s where Platform9 Private

Damian Karlson · March 24, 2025 · 4 min read

The evolving landscape of private cloud: Navigating the post-VMware era

Listen to the episode Our co-founder, Madhura Maskasky, joined AMD Tech Talk host Jim Greene for a discussion on the evolving enterprise private cloud landscape and how enterprises can navigate the post-VMware era. This episode explores the challenges and opportunities businesses face as they modernize their cloud environments. We appreciate AMD Tech Talk for the

Platform9 · February 25, 2025 · 3 min read

The Register reports:“VMware migrations will be long, expensive, risky, Gartner warns”

Gartner just published a research note titled “Estimating a Large-Scale VMware Migrations” that details the burdens expected for large-sized companies moving off of VMware. The Register’s Simon Sharwood wrote an article on this research note. He highlighted the concerns tens of thousands of VMware customers are facing that large-scale migrations are daunting, often taking

Madhura Maskasky · January 30, 2025 · 3 min read

7 reasons Private Cloud Director is the future-proof VMware alternative

As enterprises seek cost-effective, flexible, and future-ready virtualization solutions, many are reevaluating their reliance on VMware. With increasing licensing costs and vendor lock-in concerns, the need for a robust alternative has never been greater. Platform9’s Private Cloud Director emerges as the ideal solution for organizations seeking to move beyond VMware while maintaining enterprise-grade virtualization capabilities.

Kamesh Pemmaraju · January 20, 2025 · 4 min read

Navigating the future of enterprise IT: The rise of developer-friendly private clouds

Imagine a world where developers no longer wait hours or days for the resources they need. Instead, they deploy, test, and scale applications in real time while IT teams maintain control and manage costs. This isn’t a distant dream; it’s the reality enabled by developer-friendly and cost-effective private clouds that are revolutionizing enterprise IT. For

Platform9 · December 17, 2024 · 4 min read

Box Adopts Platform9 and Other 2015 Highlights

Happy New Year and welcome to 2016! Box Adopts Platform9 What better way to kick off the new year than with good news? This morning we announced that Box has adopted Platform9’s OpenStack-based private cloud solution to enable DevOps efficiency across two datacenters, serving multiple developer, QA and IT teams at the company. Why did Box

Sirish Raghuram · January 5, 2016 · 3 min read