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Read full article May 17, 2016
CRNA Higher Gear: OpenStack Startup Platform9 Launches Channel Program
Sirish Raghuram, the company’s co-founder and CEO, told CRN that sales and marketing efforts are kicking into another gear as Platform9 sees greater traction with enterprise customers, and a formal channel structure will help build on that momentum.
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Read full article May 3, 2016
The New StackPlatform9 Manages OpenStack for the Busy Enterprise
Platform9 is offering more than just an OpenStack distribution. The company is offering a fully managed service to run on the user’s infrastructure.
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Read full article April 29, 2016
ComputerWorld UKPubmatic swaps AWS for OpenStack after public cloud hidden-cost horror show
When this decision maker decided to pick Amazon Web Services because his devs needed cloud in a hurry, he didn’t know what he was letting himself in for. A move to OpenStack and all was well eventually, but only after the painful lessons hundreds of thousands of dollars can teach you.
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Read full article April 25, 2016
NetworkWorldCool products at OpenStack Austin Summit
This release of Platform9 provides even greater ease of use and enterprise readiness, featuring single-sign on with Okta and all the features and improvements of OpenStack Liberty.
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Read full article March 29, 2016
IT Business EdgeIn Defense of the Private Cloud
Emerging solutions like Platform9 offer easily deployable OpenStack-based cloud infrastructures that integrate with virtually all legacy systems in the data center. Platform9 is available as a SaaS-based managed service that features full self-installation and is capable of sharing workloads across vSphere clusters and OpenStack environments.
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Read full article March 17, 2016
InformationWeek10 Cloud Startups Worth Your Attention
Platform9 is a private cloud service that is revolutionizing how private infrastructures are deployed and managed. The platform is based on OpenStack and enables you to run many popular platforms, such as VMware, Docker, and KVM. Once it’s set up, you get all the benefits of a self-provisioning data center — but one you can call your very own.
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Read full article March 7, 2016
Forbes.comPlatform9 Makes Private Clouds Easy
For a long time, enterprise software has been synonymous with expensive and hard to use, and Platform9 is challenging the status quo with a focus on the user experience, not just functionality.
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Read full article March 6, 2016
SDX CentralVMware Vets Launch Platform9 to Serve Up DIY Private Clouds
Platform9’s claim is that it’s cracked the operational obstacles to turning an arbitrary group of servers into a self-service private cloud. Such a cloud would be one way to combat the shadow IT that sprouts up when employees, craving agility and flexibility, go rogue to adopt public clouds such as Amazon Web Services.
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Read full article February 23, 2016
Virtual LifestyleCan Platform9 simplify OpenStack by making it invisible?
At the recent Tech Field Day 10 event, I spoke with Platform9. They offer a managed OpenStack service that ties into your on-prem infrastructure.
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Read full article January 8, 2016
Tech CrunchExecutive Viewpoint 2016 Prediction: Platform9 – Automate Virtual Infrastructure or Risk Obsolescence
Recent customer interactions have convinced me that virtualized data centers will be under increasing pressure to deliver AWS-like benefits – self-service, automation, and so on – or else. In other words, get automated or get eliminated. Do you agree?
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Read full article January 8, 2016
Daily CloudBox Deploys Platform9 in Key Win For OpenStack
This week’s announcement that cloud storage leader Box (NYSE:BOX) is deploying an OpenStack solution from startup Platform9 is a big win for both Platform9 and the OpenStack framework of open source cloud operating software.
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Read full article December 21, 2015
Virtualization PracticeNext-Generation Private Cloud
A new generation of private cloud environments is being created now, ones where all the management is done via SaaS. This way, the heavy lifting is done by others, and you inherit an IT as a Service environment ready for you to add new workloads without worrying too much about upgrades, management constructs, or even, in some cases, security controls.
Platform9 Press Releases
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Platform9 Releases Free Community Edition so All Virtualization Practitioners Can Experience the Easiest Private Cloud
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Platform9 Launches Partner Program to Help VMware Customers Migrate to Private Cloud Director With Their Existing Infrastructure
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Enterprises Now Migrating Thousands of VMware Virtual Machines to Platform9’s Private Cloud in Weeks at One-Tenth of the Cost
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Platform9 launches Private Cloud Director, the industry’s new standard for enterprises modernizing their virtualized infrastructure
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Platform9 And Fairwinds Partner To Simplify Kubernetes Operations And Optimize Costs
From the Platform9 Blog
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Top 7 features to look for in a VMware migration tool
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Platform9 Private Cloud Director Community Edition gains momentum
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Enterprise VMware Alternatives: Hyperconverged vs Disaggregated infrastructure
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Top 5 VMware alternatives for Lab, SMB, and Enterprise Use
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Navigating your Private Cloud journey: From VMware expertise to Platform9 Private Cloud Director