{"id":246127,"date":"2026-05-14T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/platform9-updates-private-cloud-software-to-woo-vmware-users\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:25:10","slug":"platform9-updates-private-cloud-software-to-woo-vmware-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/platform9-updates-private-cloud-software-to-woo-vmware-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Platform9 updates private cloud software to woo VMware users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itbrief.asia\/story\/platform9-updates-private-cloud-software-to-woo-vmware-users\">Platform9 updates private cloud software to woo VMware users<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itbrief.asia\/story\/platform9-updates-private-cloud-software-to-woo-vmware-users\">https:\/\/itbrief.asia\/story\/platform9-updates-private-cloud-software-to-woo-vmware-users<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-14 15:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"itbrief.asia\">itbrief.asia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n              <span class=\"block text-xs font-bold uppercase tracking-wider text-slate-700\"><br \/>\n                JOSEPH GABRIEL LAGONSIN<br \/>\n              <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                <span class=\"block text-sm text-slate-600\">News Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Platform9 has updated its Private Cloud Director software with a new Linux distribution, Platform9 OS, aimed at companies moving away from VMware.<\/p>\n<p>The release adds a KVM-ready Linux layer designed to reduce the Linux administration needed to deploy, run and upgrade a private cloud environment. It also extends observability and support for self-hosted deployments to match features already available in the software-as-a-service version.<\/p>\n<p>The changes come as many corporate technology teams reassess their infrastructure after Broadcom&#8217;s acquisition of VMware and amid a wider shift towards Kubernetes-based systems for newer application workloads. Platform9 is positioning the release at organisations that want to retain a familiar virtualisation operating model while changing the underlying software stack.<\/p>\n<p>According to figures cited by Platform9, a January survey by CloudBolt found that 86% of IT decision-makers were actively reducing their use of VMware. Separate market data showed continued growth in Kubernetes use, including for artificial intelligence inference workloads.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Linux changes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A central part of the release is Platform9 OS, a turnkey Linux distribution prepared for KVM, the open-source hypervisor technology widely used as an alternative to VMware&#8217;s stack. The software is aimed at administrators with VMware experience but less direct experience managing Linux systems.<\/p>\n<p>It can automate configuration of the Linux image, translate VMware networking constructs into Linux-native networking, and convert VMware clusters to KVM-based environments. The update also adds an option to create virtual machines directly from ISO images for both Linux and Windows.<\/p>\n<p>That focus addresses a practical issue in migration projects. Companies may be willing to move away from VMware licensing and product dependencies, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itbrief.asia\/story\/platform9-updates-private-cloud-software-to-woo-vmware-users\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platform9 updates private cloud software to woo VMware users https:\/\/itbrief.asia\/story\/platform9-updates-private-cloud-software-to-woo-vmware-users Publish Date: 2026-05-14 15:20:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/itbrief.asia\/uploads\/story\/2026\/05\/15\/compatible_secure-it-team-virtual-machine-migration-data-center-digital-illustration.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-246127","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\/246127"}],"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=246127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246130,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246127\/revisions\/246130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}