Platform9 Introduces Multi-Region Support for VMware and KVM Private Clouds

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - Feb 10, 2016) - Platform9, the company making private clouds easy, today announced that Platform9 Managed OpenStack now gives enterprise IT the ability to segment and manage distributed datacenter "regions" from a single pane of glass. With this release, customers can define their own regions to reflect physical or logical boundaries. For example, data centers that are located in different geographical locations, support different teams, or run different hypervisors such as KVM and VMware, can be managed seamlessly within the same private cloud user interface.

"To ensure the performance of our solution, IDenTV has multiple data centers across the country, situated to optimize connectivity with media production sites. Managing this distributed infrastructure is challenging and puts a drain on our productivity," said Amro Shihadah, COO of IDenTV, maker of real-time video detection and analytics technology used in the advertising and intelligence sectors. "With its ability to define and manage distinct regions, Platform9 makes it seamless to manage our distributed infrastructure from a single interface, driving greater IT efficiency and supporting better service delivery for our business."

Platform9's new multi-region capability provides new and enhanced functionality for customers, supporting three common use cases in globally distributed enterprise data centers:

• Geographically distributed infrastructure with dedicated storage and network infrastructure can now be aggregated into the same private cloud. Not only does IT benefit from improved visibility into their distributed infrastructure, but IT can also enable self-service access to end users across sites.
  
  
• Multiple VMware vCenters can be easily managed within a single private cloud platform. Many large enterprise customers who use VMware vSphere deploy several vCenter servers to scale their virtualized infrastructure. All of this infrastructure can be managed by a single OpenStack private cloud, increasing automation and choice while reducing infrastructure costs.
  
  
• Multiple hypervisors can be easily managed within a single private cloud platform, reducing IT's management overhead for mixed environments and giving cloud platform users a true single pane across hypervisor platforms. It also enables an easy migration path for VMware vSphere users looking to reduce virtualization licensing costs and mitigate vendor lock-in by moving their second-tier workloads to lower-cost KVM.
  
  

"Enterprise customers often struggle with the complexity of managing distributed infrastructure across geographies. Further, a growing number of organizations have a stated goal to reduce infrastructure costs by introducing a secondary hypervisor platform to their IT environment, creating yet another management challenge," said Madhura Maskasky, co-founder and vice president of product at Platform9. "Platform9 Managed OpenStack provides seamless management of multiple regions -- which customers can define and segment in ways that make sense for their infrastructure and their business -- enabling greater flexibility, efficiency and cost savings."

Availability
Platform9 multi-region capability is now generally available and included in Platform9 Managed OpenStack Enterprise Edition.

Additional Resources

• Read the blog by Platform9 CEO Sirish Raghuram: http://blog.platform9.com/blog/multi-region-management
• Attend Intro to Platform9 webinar: http://platform9.com/resources/webinar/intro-platform9-private-cloud-management-software.html
• Get the Platform9 free trial: http://platform9.com/free-trial.html

About Platform9
Platform9's mission is to make private clouds easy for organizations of any scale. The company's service transforms an organization's existing servers into an AWS-like agile, self-service on-premise cloud within minutes, enabling organizations small or large to run their private clouds efficiently, at scale, while leveraging the latest open source innovations. Powered by OpenStack, the service is the industry's first 100% cloud managed platform for KVM, VMware vSphere and Docker. Founded in 2013 by a team of early VMware engineers, Platform9 is backed by Menlo Ventures and Redpoint Ventures and headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information, visit: http://www.platform9.com, or follow Platform9 on Twitter @platform9sys.