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In 2017, the managed Kubernetes provider started moving away from Amazon Web Services, switching to buying bare metal from the much smaller Packet. The biggest motivator was the cost.

Having experienced virtualization, IaaS and cloud-native industry transitions first hand, Sirish believes that open-source represents the future of enterprise hybrid clouds.

SaaS-managed hybrid cloud company Platform9 has raised $25m in Series D funding, bringing the total amount raised by the company to $61.5m.

Platform9 CEO and co-founder Sirish Raghuram discusses the lessons learned from OpenStack and how they can be applied to the benefit of Kubernetes.

Platform9 provides a SaaS-managed Hybrid Cloud solution that delivers fully automated day-2 operations with a 99.9% SLA for K8s, bare-metal, and VM-based environments. Developers get a public-cloud experience with databases, data services, open-source frameworks, Spark, and more deployed with a single click.

Platform9 delivers the next-generation open cloud for enterprises to deploy, monitor and maintain hybrid clouds across multiple platforms.

Sirish Raghuram, Platform9 CEO and co-founder, set down with Actual Tech Media at VMworld 2019 to discuss enabling Kubernetes and related cloud-native services on existing VMware environments.

Platform9’s Managed OpenStack and Kubernetes – providing required featured sets bundled in solution stack for the service provider as well as developers. They support Kubernetes on VMware platform as well.