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Platform9 announced new customers Aruba Networks, EBSCO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Juniper Networks, and Snapfish for its Managed Kubernetes solution.

There’s been a growing adoption of Kubernetes by enterprises. It’s a decision that’s helping Fortune 500 organizations modernize their applications and infrastructure to enable their cloud and stay competitive in a digital economy. Platform9 is doing its part by offering an enterprise-grade, SaaS-managed Kubernetes solution that’s infrastructure agnostic and works across any public cloud or on-premise infrastructure.

Recent wins from large enterprises who have chosen Platform9’s solution prove growing adoption of Kubernetes in enterprises, as Fortune 500 organizations modernize their applications and infrastructure in order to enable their cloud journeys and stay competitive in today’s digital economy

Platform9, a managed hybrid cloud service, plans to tout a handful of corporate customers – Aruba Networks, EBSCO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Juniper Networks, and Snapfish – who’ve started using its managed Kubernetes service.

VMblog visits the Platform9 booth during KubeCon 2018 in Seattle to learn more about their SaaS-managed enterprise Kubernetes solution.

Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2019 as part of VMblog’s predictions series. Sirish Raghuram, CEO and Co-Founder of Platform9 shares 5 trends that present challenges and opportunities for enterprise cloud in 2019.

Serverless and Containers: Friends or Foes? Serverless versus containers: the tech industry has pitted serverless and containers against each other. We are constantly reminded of the scalability of serverless. We are constantly reminded of the scalability of containers. We are reminded how serverless scales so well. We are reminded how Kubernetes scales so well. Are they talking about the same thing?

Using a FaaS like Fission.io, it made consuming cluster-hosted services like Minio’s S3-compatible APIs very fast and effective to develop with, and in cases like this, exactly as robust and extensible as it needed to be for access to stateful data.