Platform9 in the News

If your organization doesn’t have the resources to manage the install and upgrade process of OpenStack, read about two easy deployment options that let you keep data on-premises.

August venture capital activity was punctuated by a few rather large investments for some seasoned startups.

Truth-In-IT’s Hans De Leenheer interviews Platform9 Co-founder/CEO Sirish Raghuram at VMworld 2014. (video)

The Best of VMworld 2014 Awards recognize the most innovative and high-performing products in the server virtualization, cloud computing and end-user computing markets. A panel of expert judges evaluated 179 nominated products on display at VMworld 2014 and named winners in eight categories. Judges also chose one product among those winners as the Best of Show.

I recently spoke with Alex Benik of Battery Ventures, who argued the IT market has come to expect the ease-of-use and agility of public cloud services like AWS (Amazon Web Services)

This week, Amazon made a bet on Acquia, a startup that sells Drupal to enterprises, and a startup led by former VMware engineers came out of stealth making bold claims about its cloud management abilities.

Aaron & Brian talk with Sirish Raghuram (Founder/CEO of Platform9. @Platform9Sys) about their Private Cloud Management offering, delivered via SaaS.

Startup Platform9 envisions the data center of the future as a private cloud running a mix of virtual machines and Linux containers, side by side.

Yesterday a startup came out of stealth which was founded by a couple of former VMware veterans.

Platform9, founded in 2013 from former VMware Engineers Sirish Raghuram (former Staff Engineer and now Platform9’s CEO), Madhura Maskasky (also former Staff Engineer and now Head of Product),Roopak Parikh (former Staff MTS at VMware and now Head of Engineering) and Bich Le (former Principal Engineer at VMware and now Chief Architect), exits today from stealth mode announcing its homonymous SaaS cloud management platform that promises to transform the on-premise servers infrastructures into an AWS-like private clouds.

Platform9, a Sunnyvale, CA-based company that helps organizations develop private clouds in minutes, emerged from stealth today.

Recently I had the joy of reconnecting with some of my old VMware colleagues to learn that their new startup was coming out of stealth. Today Platform 9 announced their SaaS platform.