Platform9 in the News

Platform9 has announced that enterprises are migrating thousands of VMware virtual machines (VMs) to its private cloud using the open-source vJailbreak tool. This solution enables organizations to complete large-scale VMware migrations in weeks instead of years while reducing costs by up to 90%.

Industry analysts estimate large-scale VMware migrations will take 18-48 months to complete, with costs ranging from $300 to $3,000 per VM. With Platform9, migrations can happen in weeks to months and at one-tenth of the cost.

Broadcom has made VMware more profitable and has kept large customers in the fold, but the next wave of competitors, notably … Platform9, is ramping up efforts to migrate them to a new virtualization platform.

Madhura Maskasky (Chief Product Officer at Platform9) talks about the current state of the VMware virtualization market, thoughts on migrations, and factors to consider to speed migrations.

Rackspace is moving some of its back-office workloads off VMware and onto a platform called Private Cloud Director offered by cloud infrastructure outfit Platform9.

Elastic Machine Pools for EKS Clusters: A Cost-Optimization Layer Built on Proven VM Technology

Platform9 aims to help companies cut costs and foster innovation with its Elastic Machine Pool, a new compute engine for running Kubernetes in the public cloud.

Looking to the future of any industry through the lens of its foundational technology is very exciting. Yet getting from the idealistic vision to a workable reality requires a major leap – an operational management layer.

With this release, Platform9 can help enterprises migrate 100s and even 1000s of virtual machines from legacy virtualization products, driving down costs in several ways…

Platform9 earns top ranking among 13 leading managed Kubernetes solutions for its flexible approach to managed Kubernetes, empowering enterprises with support expertise, multiple deployment options, and industry-leading feature set.

Peter Fray, field chief technology officer and head of field engineering at Platform9 spoke with John Furrier, industry analyst for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming video studio, and they discussed key trends in the evolution of Kubernetes as a critical solution for enterprise IT.