Platform9 in the News

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Platform9: Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) is the only Kubernetes service that ensures fully automated Day-2 operations with 99.9% SLA on any environment: in data-centers, public clouds, or at the edge. Our unique SaaS Management Plane remotely monitors, optimizes and heals your Kubernetes clusters and underlying infrastructure. With automatic security patches, upgrades, proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, auto-healing, and more — you can confidently run production-grade Kubernetes, anywhere.

In 2017, the managed Kubernetes provider started moving away from Amazon Web Services, switching to buying bare metal from the much smaller Packet. The biggest motivator was the cost.

Having experienced virtualization, IaaS and cloud-native industry transitions first hand, Sirish believes that open-source represents the future of enterprise hybrid clouds.

Platform9 CEO and co-founder Sirish Raghuram discusses the lessons learned from OpenStack and how they can be applied to the benefit of Kubernetes.

Sirish Raghuram, Platform9 CEO and co-founder, set down with Actual Tech Media at VMworld 2019 to discuss enabling Kubernetes and related cloud-native services on existing VMware environments.

Platform9’s Managed OpenStack and Kubernetes – providing required featured sets bundled in solution stack for the service provider as well as developers. They support Kubernetes on VMware platform as well.

Platform9 has announced it will present at a webinar hosted by CNCF and hosts three Kubernetes Days events globally.

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The investment Platform9 has been working on since the beginning of the year has arrived, and will fund its Managed Kubernetes offering, which addresses the key enterprise challenges with cloud-native adoption, including the complexity of integrating on-premises datacenters and public clouds.

At VMworld 2019, Platform9 CEO Sirish Raghuram catches up with Small World Big Data Founder and Principal Analyst Mike Matchett to discuss the challenges and opportunities for bringing Kubernetes into the virtualization world.