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Platform9 Systems, Inc

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Platform9 Systems, Inc
ISIN🆔
IndustryCloud Services, SaaS, Enterprise Software, IT infrastructure
Founded 📆2013
Founder 👔
Headquarters 🏙️,
California, United States
Area served 🗺️
Products 📟 Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes Management, OpenStack, Cloud Services
Members
Number of employees
🌐 Websitehttps://platform9.com/
📇 Address
📞 telephone

Platform9 is a California based company founded in the year 2013 by Sirish Raghuram, Bich Le, Madhura Maskasky, Roopak Parikh .[1] Platform9 is a privately-held cloud infrastructure  company with an open-source software-as-a-service solution based on Kubernetes and OpenStack which manages hybrid clouds across multiple environments.[1][2]

Overview[edit]

Platform9 provides a solution for managing infrastructure across hybrid or multi clouds through a SaaS managed solution. The company’s hybrid cloud platform delivers the open-source frameworks of  Kubernetes and OpenStack as cloud infrastructure service with automated operations and SLA guarantee on any infrastructure.

Platform9 Managed Kubernetes and the corresponding Platform9 Managed OpenStack deliver a fully managed service on any infrastructure - on premises data centers, public cloud providers, or at the edge. The solution includes built-in monitoring, upgrades, multi-cluster operations, high availability, DR, and more which are automatically handled by the service and backed up by SLA.

The company introduced Kubernetes Managed Apps to its fully managed Kubernetes Service on June, 2019  enabling self-service consumption and seamless Day-2 operations with 99.9% SLA for Prometheus monitoring, EFK logging, databases, and other Kubernetes platform services. Platform9 is a platform which enables users to plug-in their existing servers and workloads across any cloud environments.[3][4][5][6]

Platform9 supports frameworks like Kubernetes, OpenStack, serverless frameworks such as Fission, and more.[7][8][6]

Platform9 introduced its managed Kubernetes Service on VMware which enables organizations to centrally manage VM’s and Kubernetes on top of vSphere in a  single pane of glass in February 2019.[3][4][7][5][9][8][2][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]

Funding[edit]

Platform9 raised total funding of $615M over four rounds. The recent investors for Platform9 are NGP Capital, with participation from Mubadala Ventures . In 2015 Platform9 raised $10M in Series B funding for its OpenStack Deployment and Management Services.[38]Platform9 raised $22M in a funding round led by Canvas Ventures, to make Open Source Cloud Infrastructure Tech easier. Platform9 received fundings from Canvas Ventures, Hewlett Packard, Redpoint Ventures and Menlo Ventures.Platform9 raised $4.5M in Series A funding from Redpoint Ventures.[1][39][40]

References[edit]

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  3. 3.0 3.1 "Platform9 raises $25 million for hybrid cloud management tools". VentureBeat. 2019-08-27. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Platform9 Introduces Kubernetes Managed Apps to Expand its Fully-managed Kubernetes Service". it.toolbox.com. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Commercial Distributions and Hardware Appliances of OpenStack Private Cloud". OpenStack. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  6. 6.0 6.1 "Platform9 extends its fully managed services to the wider Kubernetes ecosystem". SiliconANGLE. 2019-06-24. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  7. 7.0 7.1 "Platform9 Unveils Kubernetes Managed Apps Platform". Database Trends and Applications. 2019-06-24. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
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  13. Dayaratna, Author Arnal; Ph.D (2014-08-12). "Platform9 Emerges From Stealth With SaaS Interface For Creating Private Clouds And $4.5M In Series A Funding". Cloud Computing Today. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
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  19. "Platform9 launches self-service private cloud". BetaNews. 2014-08-12. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
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  21. Fay, Joe (2019-06-24). "Platform9 rolls out Kubernetes Managed Apps • DEVCLASS". DEVCLASS. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  22. Wright, Eric; vExpert; Champion, Cisco (2014-08-12). "Platform9: Out of Stealth, Into Your Private Cloud". Virtualization Software. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  23. "ITOps Times news digest: Platform9's Kubernetes Managed Apps, Kontena Pharos 2.4, and ARM Data Center Software's new network analytics capabilities". ITOps Times. 2019-06-24. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
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  30. "Platform9 Emerges From Stealth To Unify Virtualization Management". EnterpriseAI. 2014-08-12. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
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  32. Harris, Richard. "Open Source Summit welcomes Platform9 experts". App Developer Magazine. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  33. "Platform9 Shares Best Practices for Kubernetes at Scale on Bare Metal, with RDBMS, and with Serverless Apps at Open Source Summit and Other Industry Events in August : @VMblog". vmblog.com. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
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  36. "Serverless provides you with a lot of opportunities to experiment". JAXenter. 2019-07-02. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
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  38. "Platform9 Raises $10M In Series B Funding For Its OpenStack Deployment And Management Service". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  39. "VMware Vets Get $4.5M In Series A To Launch Private Cloud Management Platform". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
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