Episode 22 - Platform9
Great Things with Great Tech Podcast
Anthony Spiteri
5 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
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
Web: https://platform9.com/
Platform9 Free Tier: https://platform9.com/signup-flow/?sandbox
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're still having my morning coffee. |
| 0:08.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 22 of Great Things with Great Tech. |
| 0:13.2 | The podcast highlighting companies doing great things with great technology. |
| 0:17.4 | My name's Anthony Sputeri and in this episode we're talking to Sirish Rigraman, co-founder and CEO at Platform 9. |
| 0:25.7 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:27.9 | Great to be here. |
| 0:28.7 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:29.9 | Excellent. |
| 0:30.4 | Now, Suresh, before we get into the meat of this show talking about all things, you know, hosted platforms, managed services, |
| 0:38.3 | talking a little bit about, you know, one of my favorite subjects, VCloud director, |
| 0:42.1 | but then the maturity of the market and leading into Kubernetes. I just want to shout out. So if |
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| 1:23.2 | episodes past and coming up. So right, Suresh, let's talk about Platform 9, the company that was |
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