Andrea Mauro of vInfrastructure Blog comments:

There is a new player in the virtualization ecosystem and is called  Platform9. The company is founded by early  VMware engineers  (with several years of experience) who have taken a fundamentally new approach to creating and managing private clouds.

As you can see from their  first public blog post,  Platform9 has launch a 100% Cloud Managed Platform designed to manage Docker, KVM and VMware vSphere environments.  The idea is transforms an organization’s existing infrastructure into an agile, self-service private cloud within minutes, offering the simplicity of AWS-like public clouds with complete ownership of all resources and data.

Platform9 has some ambitious goals. Managing VMware is a hot idea, but moving into Docker might gain them more traction in the immediate future.

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