VMware Vets Get $4.5M In Series A To Launch Private Cloud Management Platform — techcrunch.com

Back in 2009 I saw a talk by then VMware CTO Steve Herrod, now a partner at General Catalyst Partners, who described a private Amazon Web Services-like environment where users could provision services with the same ease they do in the public cloud. It was the first time I heard the term “private cloud.” A group of ex-VMware veterans have gotten together to finally fulfill that vision with a product and a company called Platform9. The product is being released into Beta this week and they will have their official coming out party at VMworld later this month.

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