Platform9 in the News

VMware has proved to be the only OpenStack vendor focused on making the deployment of OpenStack on top of VMware infrastructure simpler. VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) was introduced at VMworld 2014, though it winded up being a non-starter for most VMware environments because it required VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus licensing and VMware NSX.

Platform9, a private cloud management solution vendor, released Managed OpenStack for vSphere this week, as the company looks to provide VMware (VMW) vSphere users with a simpler way to implement OpenStack into their private cloud environments.

American private cloud specialist Platform9 has launched a managed OpenStack platform for IT environments built with VMware’s vSphere. The software can transform customers’ existing virtualized servers into an AWS-like private cloud “within minutes”.

Brian talks with Madhura Maskasky (@madhuramaskasky, Co-Founder/ VP Product @Platform9) about the evolution of Platform9, offloading the Private Cloud learning curve, SaaS management, and the intersection of VMware and OpenStack for customers.

Platform9 have an interesting product for making private cloud easy using a public cloud enterprise service (according to a SaaS model) based on OpenStack platform (we can call it as an OpenStack as a Service).

Platform9 announced availability of Managed OpenStack for VMWare vSphere environments.

Clearly VMworld is around the corner as many new products, releases and company announcements are being done this week and next. Last week I had the opportunity to catch up with Sirish Raghuram, Platform9‘s CEO.

The problem with both the open source OpenStack cloud controller and its analog in the VMware world, formerly known as vCloud and now known as vRealize, is that neither of these tools have the look and feel of the Amazon Web Services cloud.

Startup aims to meld and manage VMware and OpenStack environments for business customers. Platform9 is a startup built on the premise that companies running VMware VMW 0.04% also want to move to the cloud and ensure that their current vSphere software will work with their cloud deployment, provided they choose OpenStack to run their cloud.

Platform9, a startup that offers a cloud-based service for running the most up-to-date version of the OpenStack open-source cloud software to be deployed in companies’ on-premises data centers, announced today a $10 million funding round.

Platform9, a service that aims to make it easier for businesses to launch an OpenStack private cloud on their existing servers, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures and with participation from previous investor Redpoint Ventures.

My initial reaction to the news that Google is joining the OpenStack Foundation as a corporate sponsor was to shrug it off as not extremely important to enterprises considering private or hybrid cloud options.