Great Things with Great Tech - Episode 22 - Platform9

Episode 22- Platform9 - Great Things with Great Tech
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Intro (0:00)
Platform9 mission and company (1:34)
Early days at VMware, Convertor and VMware Cloud Director (3:10)
The rise of AWS as a motivator and opportunity lost (6:05)
Virtualization fundamentals va #Kubernetes (8:50)
Platform9's Founding and behind the name (9:50)
Reducing Complexity with Platform9 with SaaS (12:30)
Coming out of Stealth at VMworld 2014 (13:30)
Early days using VMware and KVM with Platform9 (16:00)
Just Add Water Simplicity (17:10)
Using #OpenSource with CloudStack andOpenStack (19:00)
Kubernetes and Containers in 2016 (21:35)
First SaaS Based Managed Kubernetes Service (24:10)
Solving Kubernetes Deployment and Day 2 Issues (29:00)
Continued Evolution, Investment and Innovation (31:25)
5G Rollout and what it means for Kubernetes (34:00)
Sirish on where Kubernetes is today. Complexity vs Efficiency vs Success (38:20)
Lowering the complexity of Kubernetes with Platform9 (45:05)
Platform9 Free Tier (48:00)
Wrap-up and callouts (45:10)

☑️ In this episode I talk with Sirish Raghuram, , CEO and Co-Founder at Platform9. Platform9 provides SaaS based Managed Kubernetes, Openstack and Serverless for public, private and edge platforms. They deliver cloud-native technologies with SaaS simplicity that are easy to install, operate and scale, while supporting broad cloud capabilities that run on any infrastructure. Sirish and I talk about his early days working as one of the early VMware Engineers and how the paradigm of what cloud was lit the fire to join up with his co-founders and start Platform9. We discuss VMware Cloud Director, the early days of OpenStack, Docker and Kubernetes and how the latter won the container manager race, has matured, but is not quiet there yet in terms of mass adoption.

Platform9 was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA, USA.

☑️ Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned

Kubernetes, OpenStack, CloudStack, VMware, VMware Cloud Director, Docker, Containers, KVM, Mesosphere, Docker Swarm, Linux

☑️ Shoutouts and Notes:
Web: https://platform9.com/
Platform9 Free Tier: https://platform9.com/signup-flow/?sandbox

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