Platform9 in the News

Platform9 has released the Community Edition of Private Cloud Director. This free version gives virtualization professionals access to the full functionality of environments in a single region. Users can get acquainted with what the company describes as ‘the simplest private cloud experience in the industry’.

Platform9 announced that Private Cloud Director Community Edition is generally available. Community Edition provides the full Private Cloud Director experience free of charge for single-region deployments. There are no hidden fees or time limits, and it is community supported.

Platform9 this week at the Kubecon + CloudNative Europe 2025 conference, unfurled a free Community Edition of its Private Cloud Director platform for deploying virtual machines that has no hidden fees or fixed amount of time it is allowed to run.

Platform9 has formally introduced its new Partner Program, aimed at assisting VMware customers in migrating to Platform9 Private Cloud Director using their existing infrastructure. This launch, announced at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo, underscores Platform9’s commitment to value-added resellers, systems integrators, managed service providers, and technology vendors, enabling efficient, cost-effective transitions from VMware environments.

The program supports value-added resellers, systems integrators and managed service providers in equipping VMware customers to replace their VMware environments with Platform9 Private Cloud Director. The program also supports technology vendors by leveraging customers’ existing investment in their storage and server infrastructure.

Enterprise private cloud company Platform9 formally launched the Platform9 partner program. This program supports VARs, SIs and MSPs in equipping VMware customers to replace their VMware environments with Platform9 Private Cloud Director. The program also supports technology vendors by leveraging existing customer investment in storage and server infrastructure.

Enterprise private cloud company Platform9 on Monday launched a new partner program for VARs, systems integrators and managed service providers. Platform9 joins the list of companies looking to capitalize on customers’ dissatisfaction with VMware since its acquisition by Broadcom a year ago.

Platform9 has announced that enterprises are migrating thousands of VMware virtual machines (VMs) to its private cloud platform using vJailbreak, an open-source migration tool. This new approach allows organizations to transition from VMware to Platform9 in a matter of weeks, significantly reducing both migration time and cost—reportedly to one-tenth of traditional estimates.

Platform9 has announced that enterprises are migrating thousands of VMware virtual machines (VMs) to its private cloud using the open-source vJailbreak tool. This solution enables organizations to complete large-scale VMware migrations in weeks instead of years while reducing costs by up to 90%.

Industry analysts estimate large-scale VMware migrations will take 18-48 months to complete, with costs ranging from $300 to $3,000 per VM. With Platform9, migrations can happen in weeks to months and at one-tenth of the cost.

Broadcom has made VMware more profitable and has kept large customers in the fold, but the next wave of competitors, notably … Platform9, is ramping up efforts to migrate them to a new virtualization platform.

Madhura Maskasky (Chief Product Officer at Platform9) talks about the current state of the VMware virtualization market, thoughts on migrations, and factors to consider to speed migrations.