Platform9 in the News

Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) is a fully managed service and claims to be enterprise & production grade Kubernetes on VMware vSphere platform. It can be up and running in a less than an hour.

Maskasky says Platform9 is betting that IT organizations will turn to managed service providers (MSPs) to consistently manage instances of Kubernetes running in both on-premises IT environments and public clouds. She notes that Platform9 already has more than 500,000 compute cores running Kubernetes or OpenStack that are being managed on behalf of organizations across 300 cloud regions.

Platform9, the leader in SaaS-managed hybrid cloud, today announced the industry’s first fully managed Kubernetes service on VMware vSphere with Platform9 Managed Kubernetes.

The new managed service, announced Monday, is available now worldwide through Platform9 partners, and Platform9 claims it’s the industry’s only fully managed Kubernetes service that works on existing infrastructure. It also delivers visibility and management across Kubernetes environments that are on-premises, in the public cloud, or at the edge.

Today, the team at Platform9, a company known for its SaaS-managed hybrid cloud, introduced a fully managed, enterprise-grade Kubernetes service that works on VMware with full SLA guarantee.

Offerings to use Kubernetes on VMware however tend to be a bit harder to find, since it wasn’t actually designed to run containerised workloads. The only prominent representative is – unsurprisingly – VMware Cloud PKS, which is maintained by Pivotal (hence the use of PKS, Pivotal Container Service). Platform9’s new service wants to change that.

Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) allows enterprises to be up and running in less than an hour with Kubernetes on VMware that is both simple to use and production-ready.

Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) allows enterprises to be up and running in less than an hour with Kubernetes on VMware that is both simple to use and production-ready.

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.