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At VMworld 2019, Platform9 CEO Sirish Raghuram catches up with Small World Big Data Founder and Principal Analyst Mike Matchett to discuss the challenges and opportunities for bringing Kubernetes into the virtualization world.

To power international cloud-native infrastructure, managed Kubernetes and hybrid cloud environments

With strong revenue growth, Platform9 sets sights on international expansion to grow sales and marketing efforts globally, and further scale its product organization.

VMblog visits the Platform9 booth during #VMworld 2019 in San Francisco, CA, where they showcased their SaaS-managed hybrid cloud solution.

What does Platform9 do? Platform9 delivers a SaaS-managed hybrid cloud solution. And the company helps large enterprises drive digital transformation by taking advantage of a self-service, simple, and unified experience for managing their infrastructure across complex hybrid environments and technologies on-premises, in the private/public cloud, containers, serverless applications, etc.

Platform9 enables large enterprises to easily run cloud-native infrastructure at scale without the operational pain.

3. Managing Kubernetes for You: Platform9 is likely the most prominent example here. They offer remote management of a Kubernetes cluster which greatly simplifies management. Their key promise is high availability with a 99.9% SLA, and the reason they can offer this promise is that they “manage everything.” If you like a hands-off approach, this works great, but if you want to manage key pieces of the toolchain, you’ll need to check with the provider before committing to their platform.

To understand the current and future state of Kubernetes (K8s) in the enterprise, DZone gathered insights from IT executives at 22 companies, among them Platform9.