… And Launches 100% Cloud Managed Platform

Platform9 Systems, Inc. emerged from stealth and unveiled its SaaS platform that transforms an organization’s existing servers into an AWS-like agile, self-service private cloud within minutes.

The platform reduces the operational complexity for IT and offers single pane of glass management of Docker, KVM and vSphere.

Platform9 is currently in beta with a dozen mid-to-large sized organizations.

“Platform9’s big innovation is that it brings the best of the public cloud to our existing infrastructure,” said Gopal Koratana, CTO of Vendormate, Inc. who serves 2,000 healthcare providers and 68,000 vendor companies.

IT leaders of today are being asked to deliver public cloud-like agility with in-house infrastructure. Many organizations start by using the public cloud before scaling to a point where deploying their own infrastructure makes sense for cost and performance reasons. In addition, IT has to deal with the emerging diversity in virtualization and container technologies since different workloads are better suited to one or the other.

“We founded Platform9 because as early engineers at VMware, we observed how customers were struggling to achieve AWS-like efficiency with increasingly archaic management software,” said Sirish Raghuram, co-founder and CEO of Platform9. “We believe that just like SaaS revolutionized the world of enterprise applications, it can do the same for enterprise datacenters. You can think of us as the Salesforce.com of private cloud management. Our customers come to our web site, sign up and transform their existing infrastructure into a private cloud within minutes. From there on, they can focus on using their infrastructure rather than babysitting the management software.”

“Having worked with the Platform9 team over the last 6 months, I can tell you their vision is spot on when it comes to knowing what customers need to make a jump to their own private cloud successful,” said Mark Schliemann, VP of technical operationsn Moz (SEOMoz, Inc.), in marketing analytics.

Platform9 is an easy way for enterprises to implement a private cloud,
with intelligent, self-service provisioning of workloads onto their computing infrastructure.

• 100% cloud managed: cloud-based model means that there is no complex management software to setup, monitor and upgrade, thus simplifying the operational experience.
• Single pane of glass: unified management across diverse environments – Docker, KVM and vSphere – across datacenters and geographies.
• Based on OpenStack: with 100% API compatibility.

How IT Benefits

• Non-Disruptive Setup and Upgrades: Administrators can import their existing servers and workloads non-disruptively within minutes. Upgrades are as easy as clicking a button in the user interface and letting Platform9 do the rest.
• Richer Visibility: Dashboards provide rich visibility and insight into an organization’s private cloud, across infrastructure, workloads and users. Platform9 works across datacenters and geographies, eliminating management silos.
• Automation and Policy Control: Platform9 pools together servers, storage and networking into a private cloud that can be shared by teams of users. Intelligent placement technology ensures optimal hardware utilization, enforces capacity quotas and enables administrators to express rich policies for tiered consumption of resources.
• Support for Diversity: It lets administrators mix and match Docker, KVM and vSphere seamlessly, enabling them to choose the best virtualization or container technologies for their applications.

How Developers Benefit

• Self-Service Access: Developers get UI and API based self-service access to their private cloud. They can provision and access instances without waiting on human intervention. Developers can automate their build/test/release pipeline by leveraging OpenStack APIs or libraries.
• Support for Collaboration: Platform9 makes collaboration between team members and across different teams easy and intuitive with native support for creation of shared environments to rapidly provision and destroy instances. This enables faster resolution of problems between development and QA teams.

Platform9 will showcase its product at VMware’s VMworld Conference, taking place the week of August 25th in San Francisco, CA. The product is currently in beta with availability planned for later this year.

Platform9 currently supports KVM with upcoming support for Docker and vSphere.

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