Platform9, the enterprise private cloud company, announced that its newest release of Private Cloud Director adds new AI hardware support and feature integration to address top IT requirements for modern cloud to edge application management.
Additionally, Platform9 unveiled a major new breakthrough capability of its migration tool, vJailbreak, offering the ability to convert entire VMware vSphere clusters in place, keeping services online and minimizing business disruption while automating large-scale VM migrations.
“Customers want to invest in new AI projects but they have a lot of traditional VM-based applications that need support. Private Cloud Director helps to reduce existing virtualization costs significantly, freeing up funding for new AI initiatives and delivers a common foundation across all workloads. Customers will be surprised by what is possible with a platform designed uniquely for customers' most urgent priorities,” said Madhura Maskasky, co-founder and chief product officer at Platform9.
Platform9’s Private Cloud Director, built by the original creators of VMware vCloud Director, delivers a familiar private cloud experience with the enterprise-grade features including VM High Availability, Dynamic Resource Rebalancing, VM Live Migration, Distributed Virtual Switches, and Software Defined Networking, all running on existing server and storage infrastructure, the company said.
Platform9’s Private Cloud Director supports traditional applications and embraces AI’s advancement into the enterprise.
With this release, Platform9’s Private Cloud Director lets workloads share AI hardware efficiently as customers ramp deployment of AI-enabled applications while continuing to efficiently manage traditional applications within the same environment, according to the company.
AI hardware is supported in both GPU passthrough mode and as vGPUs, enabling efficient sharing across teams. Predictive load management with Dynamic Resource Rebalancing uses machine learning to analyze usage trends and automatically shift workloads to maximize resource utilization, increasing efficiency and lowering TCO.
This release also introduces a Terraform-based application catalog facility that provides DevOps-ready automation for complex, multi-VM applications.
Developers can now accelerate projects by selecting standardized application stacks that align with their preferred deployment tools and processes, according to the company.
The new release also addresses edge deployment requirements with delivery of two-node high availability cluster support. With strong demand from industrial and manufacturing deployments, customers can now easily extend the efficiency and scale of cloud architecture to reduce cost for edge application oversight, the company said.
Private Cloud Director supports on-prem and SaaS deployment models; a free full-featured community-supported Community Edition is also available.
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