Hey everyone! 👋 So, you’re curious about setting up your own little cloud haven? I’ve got you covered with this simple guide to getting started with Private Cloud Director Community Edition. Think of it as your friendly “let’s build something cool together” walkthrough. What’s Community Edition? This version of Private Cloud Director is awesome for
· May 21, 2025 · 8 min read
SummaryLooking for a VMware migration tool to exit VMware? For many IT teams, it’s no longer a question of if they should migrate VMware workloads to another platform but of carefully choosing the right migration tool that can help them do it safely, efficiently, and affordably . Not all tools are created equal. When evaluating
· May 12, 2025 · 3 min read
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.
· April 2, 2025 · 2 min read
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
· February 25, 2025 · 3 min read
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
· January 30, 2025 · 3 min read
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
· December 17, 2024 · 4 min read
OpenStack has always been viewed as an open-source innovation in the cloud computing world, offering a comprehensive suite of features for scalable cloud infrastructure and proven capabilities to replace VMware in the data center. However, OpenStack’s extensive functionality comes at the expense of complexity, with complex components such as Nova, Cinder, Neutron, and others making
· March 15, 2024 · 3 min read
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
In a recent webinar with David Davis from ActualTech Media sponsored by Platform9, featured Chris Paap of Platform9 discussing this very important topic of how to modernize virtualization stacks. The webinar addressed several topics: Compelling reasons for modernization Why now is an ideal time to modernize The challenges of modernization and tyranny of multiple
· July 20, 2023 · 8 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
We recently announced General Availability for Platform9 support of VMware vSphere, including 100% interoperability with existing vSphere infrastructure and management tools to make Platform9 the best cloud management solution for vSphere. I highlighted the benefits of our solution in a blog post and indicated that we would be providing more technical details in the future.
· September 10, 2015 · 7 min read
One of the more interesting developments that we are seeing within our customer base and among the users we speak with regularly is the growing desire to understand OpenStack hypervisor support and leverage OpenStack as a “manager of managers” for different types of technologies such as server virtualization and containers. This lines up with the messaging
· August 12, 2015 · 11 min read