{"id":245082,"date":"2026-05-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/platform9-removes-one-of-the-biggest-barriers-to-replacing-vmware-linux-administration\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:05:08","slug":"platform9-removes-one-of-the-biggest-barriers-to-replacing-vmware-linux-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/platform9-removes-one-of-the-biggest-barriers-to-replacing-vmware-linux-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Platform9 Removes One of the Biggest Barriers to Replacing VMware: Linux Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/platform9-removes-one-of-the-biggest-barriers-to-replacing-vmware-linux-administration-302770385.html\">Platform9 Removes One of the Biggest Barriers to Replacing VMware: Linux Administration<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/platform9-removes-one-of-the-biggest-barriers-to-replacing-vmware-linux-administration-302770385.html\">https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/platform9-removes-one-of-the-biggest-barriers-to-replacing-vmware-linux-administration-302770385.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-13 09:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.prnewswire.com\">www.prnewswire.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Private Cloud Director now ships with Platform9 OS, a turnkey KVM-ready Linux distribution.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">SAN JOSE, Calif.<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">May 13, 2026<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Platform9, the enterprise private cloud company, today announced updates to its Private Cloud Director (PCD), featuring Platform9 OS, a turnkey KVM-ready Linux distribution. The latest product update removes the Linux administration barrier required for enterprises to exit VMware and accelerate their journey to a modern private cloud. Platform9 OS also offers a secure and tightly validated platform that automatically stays up to date with growing cybersecurity threats, and provides a critical building block for AI applications built on Kubernetes and agentic workloads.<\/p>\n<p>Broadcom&#8217;s recent VMware acquisition coupled with the increasing AI usage built around Kubernetes, have introduced seismic changes to the virtualization market, and have spurred many enterprise organizations to reassess how they&#8217;re managing their private cloud infrastructure. Amid this evolution, they&#8217;re seeking continuity from a familiar, VMware-like experience, enterprise-grade services and software, and flexibility in hardware choices to avoid continued vendor-lock in and increased price unpredictability driven by AI.<\/p>\n<p>A January 2026 survey from CloudBolt found that 86% of IT decision makers are actively reducing their use of VMware. While the global Kubernetes-for-AI-workloads market is projected to grow from $4.8 billion in 2025 to $22.6 billion by 2034. The latest CNCF Cloud Native Survey found the production usage of Kubernetes now stands at 82% among container users, and 66% of AI adopters are using it to scale inference workloads.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With today&#8217;s release of Platform9 OS, VMware administrators can deploy, operate, and upgrade an enterprise-grade KVM based private cloud without the overhead of traditional Linux systems administration,&#8221; said Sirish Raghuram, Chief Growth Officer and Co-Founder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/platform9-removes-one-of-the-biggest-barriers-to-replacing-vmware-linux-administration-302770385.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platform9 Removes One of the Biggest Barriers to Replacing VMware: Linux Administration https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/platform9-removes-one-of-the-biggest-barriers-to-replacing-vmware-linux-administration-302770385.html Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1330555\/Platform9_Systems_Logo.jpg?p=facebook","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-245082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245086,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245082\/revisions\/245086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}