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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

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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.