Platform9 in the News

Platform9 has announced the release of Kubernetes Managed Apps. According to Platform9, this offering extends Platform9’s managed Kubernetes service and SLA guarantee to services and tools including monitoring, logging, and database services.

Platform9 opened the doors on a trio of Kubernetes Managed Apps which it says will help customers answer the “now what?” question that inevitably comes once they get Kubernetes up and look for something to do with it.

Platform9 is a company that specializes in offering “managed” versions of some of the most popular open-source software used by enterprises today, offering what it calls “open-source-as-a-service.”

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An enterprise-ready Kubenetes as a service – Platform9 works on your favorite public cloud platform, on-premises, and VMware. Its complete SaaS solution so you can focus on your application instead of continuous monitoring, infrastructure upgrade and managing them.

A survey of 500 attendees at the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2019 Europe conference finds that nearly half the respondents (47%) are now running an instance of Kubernetes in a production environment. Another 29 percent are in the process of building out a production environment, according to the survey.

OVH announced that the Kubernetes orchestration software will be distributed on the Group’s dedicated servers thanks to a partnership with Platform9. This agreement makes OVH the European provider with the widest choice of Kubernetes distribution on multiple services.

The SaaS-based management service from Platform9 will offer integration with the entire portfolio of OVH’s bare metal hardware.

At KubeCon, OVH today announced that Kubernetes orchestration software will be deployed on OVH dedicated servers through a partnership with Platform9.

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