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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.

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.

Platform9, which bills itself as an “open distributed cloud company,” today announced that it closed a $26 million funding round led by Celesta Capital with participation from Cota Capital, NGP Capital and other investors. CEO Bhaskar Gorti said that the new cash will be used to drive Platform9’s go-to-market strategy and product research and development, particularly as the company seeks out larger-scale enterprise deployments.

Cloud company Platform9 has hired Bhaskar Gorti, formerly of Oracle and Nokia, as CEO. Gorti (pictured) will be based at the Platform9 headquarters at Mountain View, California. Gorti said: “The market opportunity for our products and technologies is extraordinary. Having created a new category, open distributed cloud, we are uniquely positioned to democratize cloud computing.”

Bhaskar Gorti, the former President of Nokia Software, has boarded the cloud native train with a new job as CEO at cloud management specialist Platform9. The move puts Gorti right at the heart of telco cloud developments.

Platform9 announced that Bhaskar Gorti has joined as its new Chief Executive Officer. Bhaskar Gorti is a global software executive who brings decades of experience in building innovative and passionate teams focused on accelerating growth through customer-centricity, digitalization, and automation. He has previously held top industry positions including Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation and President of Nokia Software and Chief Digital Officer.

Sirish Raghuram, CEO of Platform9, joined other Equinix Metal partners to share how they are leveraging bare metal services to help their customers in their cloud-native journey.

Multicloud Kubernetes-as-a-Service provider Platform9 has added a variety of new enterprise capabilities to its Platform9 5.4 release to simplify the management of multi-cluster and multicloud Kubernetes deployments.