August 12, 2014
Private cloud companyPlatform9 unveiled its new software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, designed to transform on-premise servers into self-service private clouds. The company was founded by several VMware (VMW) veterans with the idea of bringing the agility of a public cloud environment to existing infrastructure.
August 12, 2014
There is a new player in the virtualization ecosystem and is called Platform9. The company is founded by early VMware engineers (with several years of experience) who have taken a fundamentally new approach to creating and managing private clouds.
August 12, 2014
Today’s IT managers are under pressure to deliver the sort of agility that’s offered by the public cloud but with the security and cost benefits of using existing infrastructure.
August 11, 2014
Back in 2009 I saw a talk by then VMware CTO Steve Herrod, now a partner at General Catalyst Partners, who described a private Amazon Web Services-like environment where users could provision services with the same ease they do in the public cloud. It was the first time I heard the term “private cloud.”
August 11, 2014
Platform9, a company founded by VMware vets that is launching today.