Platform9, the leader in simplifying enterprise private clouds, 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:
- Production ready virtualization: Comprehensive virtualization management, from advanced resource scheduling to powerful cluster-wide Software Defined Networking.
- 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™.
- 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.
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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.
SOURCE: BusinessWire