SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 10/06/15 — Platform9, the company making private clouds easy, today announced that Melinda Wilken has joined as vice president of marketing and that Adam Ulfers has joined as vice president of sales. These newly created positions round out the executive team as the company scales to meet the accelerating demand for its award-winning OpenStack private cloud management software."We–ve seen significant revenue momentum in our first two quarters of sales thi
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwired) — 08/31/15 — — Platform9, the company making private clouds easy, and SolidFire, the leader in built for the , today announced that they have partnered to seamlessly integrate SolidFire–s all-flash scale-out storage systems with Platform9–s OpenStack-as-a-service solution. Platform9 Managed OpenStack enables the use of existing and new virtualized servers to power private clouds in minutes, while integrating seamlessly with SolidFire storage for guarante
SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 08/18/15 — Platform9, the company making private clouds easy, today announced that it has secured $10 million in Series B funding, bringing the funding total to $14.5 million. Menlo Ventures led the round, and previous investor Redpoint Ventures also participated. The company plans to use the money to accelerate its product roadmap for its growing customer base.Menlo Ventures General Partner Mark Siegel joins Redpoint Ventures Partner Scott Raney on the board.
SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 07/27/15 — Platform9, the company making private clouds easy, today announced that it has been named one of the 10 coolest cloud startups of 2015 so far for "doing innovative, exciting things with technologies at the cutting edge of the modern data center that are changing the landscape of cloud computing": .This is the seventh major accolade for Platform9 since it emerged from stealth less than a year ago. The company was named the coolest virtualiz
SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 04/27/15 — Platform9, the company making private clouds easy, today announced that it has been selected as a finalist for the Innovation Showcase at MIT Sloan–s 12th Annual CIO Symposium for developing a cutting edge B2B solution that provides both strong value and innovation to enterprise IT now and in the future: . Other finalists include Cumulus Networks, DataGravity, Infinio Systems, Numerify, Rifiniti, Sqrrl, Stratoscale, Virsec Systems and Zaius.The MIT
SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 01/27/15 — Platform9, the company making private clouds easy, today announced that TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization named it one of the top 10 virtualization companies to watch this year along with Bromium, Docker, Eco4Cloud, Maxta, Nakivo, Nimboxx, Opvizor, Ravello Systems and Stratoscale:SearchServerVirtualization Site Editor Nick Martin said: "For all the momentum and interest behind OpenStack, building a private cloud based on the open source pla
SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 12/23/14 — Platform9, a company with a fundamentally new approach to creating and managing private clouds, today announced that Computer Reseller News (CRN) has named it the coolest virtualization startup of 2014:"Virtualization has had a beneficial impact on data centers for years, changing the way organizations run and manage their servers, desktops and infrastructure management," said Kevin McLaughlin, Chief Investigative Reporter at CRN. "It
