Platform9 deployment models for OpenStack

Sirish Raghuram and Madhura Maskasky are co-founders of Platform9, which provides OpenStack-as-a-Service to make private clouds easy to deploy and manage. There are three main deployment models for OpenStack: on-premises using distributions which require extensive resources to operate; hosted private clouds with simplified deployment but high costs; and Platform9's approach which manages the OpenStack controller as a service while allowing organizations to use their own infrastructure, providing the best of both worlds. Platform9 was demonstrated to seamlessly integrate OpenStack with existing infrastructure with minimal setup.