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.