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This week, Amazon made a bet on Acquia, a startup that sells Drupal to enterprises, and a startup led by former VMware engineers came out of stealth making bold claims about its cloud management abilities.

Aaron & Brian talk with Sirish Raghuram (Founder/CEO of Platform9. @Platform9Sys) about their Private Cloud Management offering, delivered via SaaS.

Startup Platform9 envisions the data center of the future as a private cloud running a mix of virtual machines and Linux containers, side by side.

Yesterday a startup came out of stealth which was founded by a couple of former VMware veterans.

Platform9, founded in 2013 from former VMware Engineers Sirish Raghuram (former Staff Engineer and now Platform9’s CEO), Madhura Maskasky (also former Staff Engineer and now Head of Product),Roopak Parikh (former Staff MTS at VMware and now Head of Engineering) and Bich Le (former Principal Engineer at VMware and now Chief Architect), exits today from stealth mode announcing its homonymous SaaS cloud management platform that promises to transform the on-premise servers infrastructures into an AWS-like private clouds.

Platform9, a Sunnyvale, CA-based company that helps organizations develop private clouds in minutes, emerged from stealth today.

Recently I had the joy of reconnecting with some of my old VMware colleagues to learn that their new startup was coming out of stealth. Today Platform 9 announced their SaaS platform.

A new startup emerged from stealth today, a company called Platform9.