Platform9 in the News

Platform9 has announced support for OpenStack’s latest iteration, Neutron, alongside OpenStack Heat and Openstack Ceilometer.

Having had a chance to play with Platform9 as part of some SolidFire internal training I am building, it really does deliver on its promise of getting OpenStack functionality to the user quickly, into an existing environment.

Roopak Parikh, co-founder & head of engineering at Platform9 Systems shares with SuperuserTV his company’s origin story and the pros and cons of being a startup in the community.

At last week’s AWS re:Invent conference The New Stack founder Alex Williams sat down with guests from Platform9.

OpenStack has been many things to many people. Soon after it was introduced, I saw use cases for OpenStack as a replacement for VMware vSphere.

Already available for KVM, Platform9 made its private cloud software, Managed OpenStack, available for VMware vSphere environments last month. At the same time, the company raised $10m in series B funding, bringing total funding to $14.5m.

A new infrastructure stack is evolving with the principal elements being flash storage, hyper-convergence/Server SAN, OpenStack and containers.

The IT industry is defined by change – both the new technologies and the impact that these have on business. In the CUBE Conversation video below, Brian Gracely and I provide analysis on the shifting infrastructure stack and what limitations or gaps need to be taken under consideration.

Here’s the TL;DR – Practitioners, vendors and analysts say the open source cloud platform is ready for enterprises, but it’s no cake-walk. OpenStack is not easy to deploy and manage. But then again, no private cloud is.

VMblog stopped by the Platform9 booth during VMworld 2015 and had a great conversation and received a really nice demo of the company’s OpenStack solution.