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Conventional wisdom has it that software as a service (SaaS) is the “insecure but convenient” alternative for IT solutions. However, increasingly sophisticated SaaS solutions and growing awareness of possible limitations with on-premises solutions are turning that conventional wisdom on its head: SaaS might very well be the more secure and enterprise-ready of the two alternatives for a wide class of IT solutions.

Platform9 has announced beta support for OpenStack Neutron, providing customers with a turnkey solution for dynamically provisioning networks within vSphere and KVM environments. The company also announced general availability of its support for OpenStack Heat for orchestration as well as for OpenStack Ceilometer for programmatic alerts and event notifications.

Platform9 has announced support for OpenStack’s latest iteration, Neutron, alongside OpenStack Heat and Openstack Ceilometer.

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Platform9, a startup co-founded by former VMware engineers, sells a cloud-based management platform that helps companies quickly deploy self-service OpenStack private clouds within their existing data center environments.

Having had a chance to play with Platform9 as part of some SolidFire internal training I am building, it really does deliver on its promise of getting OpenStack functionality to the user quickly, into an existing environment.

Roopak Parikh, co-founder & head of engineering at Platform9 Systems shares with SuperuserTV his company’s origin story and the pros and cons of being a startup in the community.

At last week’s AWS re:Invent conference The New Stack founder Alex Williams sat down with guests from Platform9.

OpenStack has been many things to many people. Soon after it was introduced, I saw use cases for OpenStack as a replacement for VMware vSphere.