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Platform9 announced a partnership with research firm Intersect to provide managed hybrid cloud services throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Platform9’s SaaS hybrid cloud allows customers to plug into various environments, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Dell VMware, bare metal, and OpenStack, while also giving them a “single pane of glass” view of all of their workloads.

The alliance aims to accelerate cloud adoption and modernize IT infrastructure with hybrid platforms that ensure operational efficiencies.

Intersect CEO Marc Bailey says, “For Intersect, Platform9 represents the single most strategic solution to a set of challenges we see expanding across the board, as organisations come to terms with the post-cloud reality of infrastructure-as-a-service.”

Platform9, supports active administrative tasks across OpenStack, Kubernetes and serverless environments deployed on top of on-premises IT infrastructure.

Platform9 is now firing on all cylinders, having recently added a Managed Kubernetes offering (PMK) for VMware vSphere to its hybrid cloud portfolio.

Platform9, a company whose primary offering is a managed-Kubernetes service, saw the need for a serverless solution apart from Lambda. It released Fission, an open source serverless framework. Its goal was to provide an easy way for users to get started and manage their applications without having to do any of the plumbing related to containers. Fission is based on native Kubernetes.

To understand the current and future state of containers, DZone gathered insights from 33 IT executives, amongst them Bich Le – Platform9 co-founder and chief architect – about the most important elements to orchestrating and deploying containers.