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Platform9 named a Visionary in 2026 Gartner(R) Magic Quadrant(TM) for Server Virtualization Platforms. Sep 16, 2026, 11:05 ET SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Platform9, the company simplifying private cloud infrastructure, today announced that it has been named as a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner(R) Magic Quadrant(TM) for Server Virtualization Platforms. Platform9's Private Cloud Director product helps organizations modernize their virtualization environments while maintaining a familiar experience for infrastructure teams. It provides a SaaS-delivered control plane, automated migration tooling and support for virtual machines and containers across existing infrastructure. According to Gartner: "Server virtualization platforms can be used by enterprises to optimize IT infrastructure and improve service levels within data centers and remote locations. Service providers often use a server virtualization platform as an embedded component of their infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings and/or for delivering a hosted server virtualization platform." "We've experienced unprecedented growth over the past year as organizations around the world look for a more flexible and cost-effective alternative to VMware," said Madhura Maskasky, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Platform9. "That customer momentum has accelerated our own pace of innovation. We've been able to turn what we're hearing from customers into major investments in R&D and bring new capabilities to market that deliver the familiar virtualization experience infrastructure teams expect, while giving them far greater flexibility to adapt as their environments evolve. Just as importantly, we're giving organizations much clearer cost predictability as they plan for the future." A New Approach to Virtualization The market for server virtualization is undergoing significant change as organizations reassess the cost, flexibility and operational complexity of their infrastructure environments. Platform9 is focused on helping enterprises make that transition without requiring them to abandon the operational familiarity of traditional virtualization. Private Cloud Director provides a unified management experience for virtual machines and containers, while its hardware-agnostic architecture enables organizations to make greater use of their existing infrastructure. Platform9 also provides automated tooling designed to simplify migration from legacy virtualization environments. The company has expanded its product capabilities significantly over the past year in response to growing customer demand, with a focus on delivering an enterprise-grade virtualization experience that combines familiar workflows with a more adaptive infrastructure model. Take the Risk Out of VMware Migration Platform9 recently announced its 60-Day Production Guarantee, designed to address one of the biggest uncertainties organizations face when moving away from VMware: how long the migration will take. Under the program, customers define an agreed-upon production milestone and work with Platform9 experts to reach it within 60 days. If the milestone is not reached, customers can cancel at no cost. The program complements vJailbreak, Platform9's free utility for automating the migration of VMware workloads to Platform9. To learn more about the 60-Day Production Guarantee and how Platform9 is helping organizations take the risk out of leaving VMware, visit: https://platform9.com/blog/platform9-takes-on-the-risk-of-leaving-vmware-so-you-dont-have-to/ Access a Complimentary Copy of the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Server Virtualization Platforms Organizations can also download a complimentary copy of the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Server Virtualization Platforms through Platform9's Gartner reprint landing page: https://platform9.com/gartner-magic-quadrant. Gartner Disclaimer Gartner does not endorse any company, vendor, product or service depicted in its publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's business and technology insights organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this publication, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. About Platform9 Platform9 simplifies private cloud infrastructure, enabling organizations to run and manage virtual machines and containers on infrastructure they control. Platform9 Private Cloud Director provides a cloud-like operating experience with a SaaS-delivered control plane, automated operations and migration tooling, helping enterprises modernize their infrastructure while reducing complexity and improving cost predictability. Learn more at https://platform9.com. Media Contact Nicole Silva, VP of Marketing at Platform9 [email protected] SOURCE Platform9 Systems, Inc.

Platform9 takes on the risk of leaving VMware, so you don't have to. Platform9 is taking on the risk that has kept VMware migrations stuck: the uncertainty of how long they take. Under the 60-Day Production Guarantee, customers define a production milestone, reach it within 60 days, or cancel at no cost. Over the past year, Platform9 has become an established alternative for organizations seeking a more flexible path off VMware. It's been an exciting period of growth for its company, marked by a constant and increasingly rapid loop of customer and partner feedback and product iteration cycles. Platform9 has recently realized some noteworthy milestones, including: * An enterprise customer is now running (well) over 40,000 production VMs on Platform9 * Customer count grew 67% over the past fiscal year * Active presence in nearly 50 countries worldwide and 38% quarterly increase in new partners over the past year The private cloud market is going through a period of rapid transformation. Factors as diverse as private AI's emergence - and the GPU utilization, cost predictability and data control requirements that drive it, evolving data sovereignty and compliance mandates and general public cloud fatigue (read: skyrocketing costs) have driven a renewed demand for flexible private cloud management. Arguably no factor has been a bigger driver for this market, though, than the changes that Broadcom has introduced to historically stable VMware contracts. Its founders long admired the VMware model, and it inspired the way Platform9 was originally developed. With a new owner in place, that model has become untenable and has driven a disruption not seen in this market for well over a decade. Platform9 is pleased that a growing number of organizations are recognizing Platform9 as a reliable alternative for powering their virtualized workloads. And today, Platform9 is pleased to introduce the 60-Day Production Guarantee. What is the 60-Day Production Guarantee? Moving off VMware is one thing. Knowing how long it will take is another. For organizations with hundreds or thousands of VMs, migration can feel like a project with no clear finish line. How long will it take? How much engineering time will it require? What happens if the migration takes longer than expected? Organizations might just sign up for another two years with VMware, even if they don't know where that will lead or how much it might cost them in the end. It shouldn't be that way for your businesses. This is why Platform9 is launching the new 60-Day Production Guarantee designed to remove some of that uncertainty. Customers have 60 days to reach their first agreed-upon production milestone with Platform9 experts providing support every step of the way. If companies are not able to reach this milestone, they can de-book with no penalty. This is complimentary to its vJailbreak, a free utility built for the automated transition of workloads from VMware to Platform9. Move first. Then modernize. A VMware migration is a chance to reconsider some of the assumptions that have shaped private infrastructure for years: * Do Platform9 still want infrastructure that requires significant operational complexity? * Should private cloud continue to be primarily VM-centric? * Can organizations get a cloud-like operating experience on infrastructure they control? * How can existing infrastructure investments support new workloads such as Kubernetes and AI? * Can infrastructure teams modernize without replacing everything they already own? A VMware exit doesn't have to mean recreating yesterday's private cloud on a different platform. It can be the first step toward building the private cloud organizations actually need for tomorrow. AI is changing what Private Cloud needs to do. There is another reason this matters now. AI is changing the infrastructure equation. Organizations are adding GPUs, increasing compute requirements and adopting Kubernetes-based environments to support new applications. At the same time, infrastructure costs are becoming harder to predict, particularly as demand for compute, memory and high-performance hardware increases. That puts a premium on infrastructure efficiency. The more expensive infrastructure becomes, the less room there is for idle capacity, unnecessary management overhead or infrastructure that can only support one class of workload. Private clouds can provide a way to regain some of that control. For workloads where cost, performance, data sovereignty, security and predictability matter, running infrastructure under your own control can make strategic sense. But that private cloud needs to support more than the virtual machines that drove the original investment. The next private cloud needs to be able to run what comes next. The future is now and Platform9 is ready for it. Get off VMware and start modernizing. Platform9 is incredibly excited with this new offering. Platform9 want to give you the predictability with pricing and performance that you likely experienced with early days VMware. This is a low risk, high reward proposal where Platform9 set milestones together. Want to do more testing of its Private Cloud? Its free 0-60 Hands-on Lab is a live, instructor-led session where you'll tour the product, deploy VMs, work through multi-tenancy, and see a workload migration with vJailbreak - all in an environment Platform9 provide. * Dave Gilinsky Dave Gilinsky runs global support and professional services at Platform9. His teams handle the part of a VMware migration that comes after the planning: the cutovers, the rollbacks, and the environments that don't match the diagram. Before Platform9, he built support and services organizations at Pure Storage, WEKA, Tintri, and Dell EMC. View all posts