Platform9 Launches Private Cloud Director, the Industry’s New Standard for Enterprises Modernizing Their Virtualized Infrastructure

Barchart · 10/17 10:00

Platform9, the leader in simplifying enterprise private clouds, today announced the launch of Private Cloud Director, the new standard for enterprise private cloud management.

Enterprise IT teams are dealing with disruptive changes in the virtualization industry. They are confronted with unsustainable rising costs, vendor lock-in, and limited flexibility, all while being asked by their business teams to provide a more agile and feature-rich private cloud experience.

Private Cloud Director delivers an open, comprehensive private cloud platform that provides enterprise IT teams with key capabilities they need to modernize their legacy virtualized infrastructure, including:

  1. Production ready virtualization: Comprehensive virtualization management, from advanced resource scheduling to powerful cluster-wide Software Defined Networking.
  2. Built for the enterprise: Ability to run hundreds of clusters with high availability, seamless in-place upgrades, and backed by Platform9’s Always-On Assurance™.
  3. Integrated and extensible: Integrated platform includes Kubernetes and Kubernetes based platform extensions making it easier for enterprises to harness the ever-growing ecosystem of open-source infrastructure and cloud-native services.

Comprehensive and integrated private cloud features

This launch marks a significant milestone in Platform9’s mission to help enterprises modernize their virtualized environments with the following technical features available in one unified private cloud platform:

  • Choice of infrastructure: Unlike hyperconverged solutions, Private Cloud Director is compatible with all major server, storage and network hardware, making it more flexible and practical for enterprises.
  • Composable infrastructure clusters: Using a combination of infrastructure clusters such as virtualized clusters or Kubernetes clusters and associated services.
  • Cluster resource management: Robust built-in high availability and automatic resource balancing for virtualized and Kubernetes clusters.
  • Distributed Software Defined Networking (SDN): Enables fault-tolerant and scalable clusters by using a distributed Software Defined Network (SDN), with built-in support for distributed routers, distributed switches, ACLs, DHCP, DNS, and load balancers.
  • Flexible hosting options: Available as a Platform9 hosted fully managed SaaS control plane or a self-managed deployment.
  • Modern user interface: Designed to simplify management of a broad range of infrastructure services across different infrastructure cluster types.
  • vJailbreak migration: Simplifies migration of virtual machines to Platform9 Private Cloud Director with an easy-to-use business open source tool called vJailbreak.

Learn more about these capabilities on our Private Cloud Director product page

A proven solution at enterprise scale

“With this launch, we’re leveraging the learnings from over eight years of running more than 20,000 nodes across major global brands like Cloudera, Juniper Networks, and EBSCO,” said Roopak Parikh, Co-founder and CTO of Platform9. “Our founding team’s deep experience at VMware, where we helped build some of the original technologies that power today’s virtualization and cloud infrastructure, enables us to offer a unique platform that combines decades of cloud management, virtualization, and containerization expertise.”

A standout customer example is a global food and beverage brand that is using Platform9 to deliver high volume mobile and point-of-sale transactions across 13,000 stores. In such a mission-critical environment, any downtime or SLA breach could severely impact operations. Platform9's Always-On Assurance™ offers continuous monitoring and proactive issue resolution, while its industry-leading SLAs guarantee the customers’ infrastructure remains highly available, ensuring smooth and uninterrupted business operations.

As part of the launch of Platform9 Private Cloud Director, we are offering a 1-hour expert insights session to explore your private cloud requirements:

  • Learn industry best practices for migration and management.
  • Explore detailed case studies from our customers similar to yours.
  • Explore your private cloud needs with an exclusive pilot program to test Platform9 Private Cloud Director in your environment.

Schedule your session today

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About Platform9

Platform9 is the leader in simplifying enterprise private clouds. The company’s flagship product, Private Cloud Director, delivers an open, comprehensive private cloud platform that is developer-friendly and cost-effective, while enabling enterprise IT teams with critical capabilities they need to modernize their legacy virtualized infrastructure. Platform9 was founded by a team of VMware cloud pioneers and has over 20,000 nodes in production at some of the world's largest enterprises, including Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace. Platform9 is an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by prominent investors, committed to driving private cloud innovation and efficiency.