August 31, 2015
Platform9, the company making private clouds easy, and SolidFire, the leader in all-flash storage systems built for the Next Generation Data Center, today announced that they have partnered to seamlessly integrate SolidFire’s all-flash scale-out storage systems with Platform9’s OpenStack-as-a-service solution.
August 31, 2015
Private cloud provider Platform9 has announced general availability of its ManagedOpenStack Cinder integration, allowing customers to use the storage subsystem of their choice in their KVM or vSphere-powered private clouds. As part of this launch, Platform9 announced on Monday that the first storage partner to be certified with Platform9 is SolidFire.
August 27, 2015
RavelloSystems provides a cloud-based platform for spinning up a test-lab quickly and easily, and it supports VMware’s vSphere/ESXi hypervisor through nested hypervisors (running ESXi on a Google or AWS compute instance).
August 26, 2015
In recent years, open source cloud software OpenStack has been its own worst enemy. While tech leaders like Cisco and Intel have invested millions of dollars in it, and telecom providers have bought it to offer to the cloud customers they dream of acquiring, the enterprise market has mostly shunned the platform.
August 22, 2015
VMware has proved to be the only OpenStack vendor focused on making the deployment of OpenStack on top of VMware infrastructure simpler. VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) was introduced at VMworld 2014, though it winded up being a non-starter for most VMware environments because it required VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus licensing and VMware NSX.
August 20, 2015
Platform9, a private cloud management solution vendor, released Managed OpenStack for vSphere this week, as the company looks to provide VMware (VMW) vSphere users with a simpler way to implement OpenStack into their private cloud environments.
August 20, 2015
American private cloud specialist Platform9 has launched a managed OpenStack platform for IT environments built with VMware’s vSphere. The software can transform customers’ existing virtualized servers into an AWS-like private cloud “within minutes”.
August 19, 2015
Brian talks with Madhura Maskasky (@madhuramaskasky, Co-Founder/ VP Product @Platform9) about the evolution of Platform9, offloading the Private Cloud learning curve, SaaS management, and the intersection of VMware and OpenStack for customers.