Cloud computing is undergoing a transformative phase. In this blog, we examine resurgence of OpenStack in the face of severe market disruptions, particularly the massive price hikes imposed by Broadcom VMware, which have left small to mid-sized VMware customers in the dust. Rising costs of public cloud services are also driving a shift toward more
· March 11, 2024 · 3 min read
With Platform9 Managed OpenStack, administrators can authorize multiple hosts within a region to act as OpenStack Glance image library servers. Adding multiple image libraries has the following benefits: Creates a highly available Glance image service deployment that balances load for data-heavy block storage volume (cinder) and virtual machine instance (nova) provisioning operations. Eliminates downtime when
· July 19, 2017 · 6 min read
This post was authored by Chris Brown, Solutions Marketing at Nutanix OpenStack is a powerful tool for managing private clouds, but that power has historically come with a price: complexity. Today we’re very excited to announce a new way to remove that complexity with Platform9’s Managed OpenStack product, for deployment, upgrade, monitoring and support for
· March 23, 2017 · 4 min read
One of the major use cases for using private cloud & OpenStack is running labs; these labs can be for your dev, qa or sales organization. In these labs, OpenStack is used to create various infrastructure objects (Instances, Images, Volumes etc) on demand for development, test or demonstration purposes. OpenStack makes it very easy to
· September 7, 2016 · 2 min read
Platform9’s OpenStack-as-a-service offers a unique solution by hosting the OpenStack control plane in a SaaS layer, while the VMs and confidential data remain on infrastructure in the customer’s data center. Each Platform9 customer configures OpenStack services specific to their needs, but there are some common patterns in the OpenStack reference architectures. In this blog post we highlight three
· July 28, 2016 · 5 min read
It’s Tech Field Day 2016, where Platform9 CEO Sirish Raghuram and Chief Architect Bich Le presented on Wednesday February 3, 2016 from 9:30am-11:30am Central Time. Agenda includes deep dives into Platform9 Managed OpenStack, plus a peek into our labs to see what Bich and the team are cooking up. Watch the video recordings here
· February 2, 2016 · 1 min read
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
· January 5, 2016 · 3 min read
Platform9 recently announced beta support for OpenStack Neutron networking. In this blog post, I explain the differences between Linux bridges and Open vSwitch and why Platform9 chose one over the other. I have come across quite a few people who are very excited to get onboard with deploying OpenStack and bringing up their own private clouds.
· December 2, 2015 · 4 min read
One of the benefits that Platform9 customers most value with our managed cloud offering is the ability to take advantage of new innovations and capabilities without having to shoulder the burden that often comes with new software releases. This includes all the testing that needs to be performed prior to putting new technology in production. It includes
· November 18, 2015 · 3 min read
Have you ever botched your VM’s network configuration? Maybe you forgot to allow SSH traffic in your firewall settings? How do you fix the network configuration when you cannot even SSH into your VM? One usually sits in front of their physical machine to fix such issues. But with the advent of virtualization, there is
· November 11, 2015 · 4 min read
It’s been few days since the most recent OpenStack Summit ended and the word that comes to mind when I reflect on the week that just past is “stability.” Some may even call it boring and that is a good thing. This is not to say there wasn’t exciting news such as new customer use cases
· November 5, 2015 · 4 min read
Last week I had the pleasure of catching up with GE Cloud Infrastructure Architect Cody Hill when he swung by our Silicon Valley office. In a Q&A session with the Platform9 team, Cody shared his perspective on cloud computing, public vs. private cloud, OpenStack, containers, SaaS and more. Here are the highlights: Sirish Raghuram (SR):
· November 4, 2015 · 8 min read