Platform9 in the News

Hybrid cloud provider Platform9 has announced a new managed Kubernetes service on VMware vSphere.

Normalization of infrastructure through open source technologies is one way to make the move to the cloud an easier process for organizations.

At KubeCon 2018, VMblog interviewed industry experts from StackRox, Platform9 and Binaris to talk about predictions and futures in 2019 within the IT industry, covering containers, Kubernetes and more.

They’re currently one of Platform9’s largest deployments: more than a 1,000 sockets and a workload that involves deploying Heat stacks hundreds of times a day.

Fission provides a serverless framework for Kubernetes with a focus on high performance and developer productivity, with a speedy 100ms start time.

An introduction on serverless. What is serverless? That’s where we start to say I don’t want to be in operations anymore. I don’t want to have infrastructure to operate. I don’t even want to have Kubernetes to operate. I just want to write code and deploy it and have it run for me as a service. Mostly you can see precedents for this in such things as Amazon Lambda and there’s other products by other cloud providers. We have Andres Vega who is the product manager for Fission from Platform9 with us to tell us how they leverage serverless to develop, distribute and deploy code.

A survey of 500 attendees at the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 conference suggests that early adopters of Kubernetes are now wrestling with many of the downstream issues that ensue after embracing microservices-based applications based on containers to build and deploy applications.

DEVOPSdigest invited DevOps experts — analysts and consultants, users and the top vendors — to share their predictions on how DevOps and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2019. Part 7, covers the Cloud. Check out Sirish Raghuram, Platform9 Co-founder and CEO, two predictions.

Platform9 – What they do: Provide a managed hybrid-cloud service that turns existing enterprise infrastructure into a cloud.

Talking about the new customers, Sirish Raghuram, co-founder and CEO of Platform9, said, “These customers are demonstrating that large enterprises — not just the unicorns — are making enormous strides on the cutting edge of modern IT, enabling Kubernetes at scale – on-premises, at the edge, and in hybrid, mixed environments.”

Platform9 announced new customers Aruba Networks, EBSCO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Juniper Networks, and Snapfish for its Managed Kubernetes solution.

There’s been a growing adoption of Kubernetes by enterprises. It’s a decision that’s helping Fortune 500 organizations modernize their applications and infrastructure to enable their cloud and stay competitive in a digital economy. Platform9 is doing its part by offering an enterprise-grade, SaaS-managed Kubernetes solution that’s infrastructure agnostic and works across any public cloud or on-premise infrastructure.