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
· August 4, 2015 · 9 min read
Six months ago we made our SaaS delivered Cloud Management-as-a-Service solution generally available to the public. Since then, a growing number of Platform9 customers have realized the benefits of transforming their on-premises infrastructure into an agile private cloud. Our customers have been able to enable their developers to be more productive than ever, while leveraging
· July 21, 2015 · 4 min read
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 security updates and patches must be applied else your environment will be at a high security risk. After several months of procrastinating-the-unpleasant (some call it
· April 1, 2015 · 3 min read