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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.

Platform9 is a private cloud service that is revolutionizing how private infrastructures are deployed and managed. The platform is based on OpenStack and enables you to run many popular platforms, such as VMware, Docker, and KVM. Once it’s set up, you get all the benefits of a self-provisioning data center — but one you can call your very own.

For a long time, enterprise software has been synonymous with expensive and hard to use, and Platform9 is challenging the status quo with a focus on the user experience, not just functionality.

Platform9’s claim is that it’s cracked the operational obstacles to turning an arbitrary group of servers into a self-service private cloud. Such a cloud would be one way to combat the shadow IT that sprouts up when employees, craving agility and flexibility, go rogue to adopt public clouds such as Amazon Web Services.