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Many organizations, especially those following a DevOps model, are switching to or adding containers for their apps. Platform9 is adding support for containers via a management platform for Kubernetes, in addition to Linux KVM and vSphere.

Ben Kepes writes: Platform9’s managed Kuberentes service is touted as an “enterprise-ready container management platform that makes it easy to orchestrate containerized workloads, while providing mission-critical features for deploying and managing Docker containers in production and at scale.” It’s a smart play.

Platform9 takes cloud computing to a whole new level.

Sirish Raghuram, the company’s co-founder and CEO, told CRN that sales and marketing efforts are kicking into another gear as Platform9 sees greater traction with enterprise customers, and a formal channel structure will help build on that momentum.

Platform9 is offering more than just an OpenStack distribution. The company is offering a fully managed service to run on the user’s infrastructure.

When this decision maker decided to pick Amazon Web Services because his devs needed cloud in a hurry, he didn’t know what he was letting himself in for. A move to OpenStack and all was well eventually, but only after the painful lessons hundreds of thousands of dollars can teach you.

This release of Platform9 provides even greater ease of use and enterprise readiness, featuring single-sign on with Okta and all the features and improvements of OpenStack Liberty.

Emerging solutions like Platform9 offer easily deployable OpenStack-based cloud infrastructures that integrate with virtually all legacy systems in the data center. Platform9 is available as a SaaS-based managed service that features full self-installation and is capable of sharing workloads across vSphere clusters and OpenStack environments.