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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.

Amazon Web Service’s re:Invent conference is one of the premier public IaaS cloud computing conferences. Check out all the latest products and services vendors at this year’s show are announcing or displaying in Las Vegas.

Already available for KVM, Platform9 made its private cloud software, Managed OpenStack, available for VMware vSphere environments last month. At the same time, the company raised $10m in series B funding, bringing total funding to $14.5m.

A new infrastructure stack is evolving with the principal elements being flash storage, hyper-convergence/Server SAN, OpenStack and containers.