Platform9, the leader in multi-cloud Kubernetes-as-a-Service, announced that Norna, a leading applied artificial intelligence company, experienced a ten-fold productivity improvement and a 78% total cost of operations (TCO) reduction after implementing Platform9's Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service to power the company's retail fashion AI technology. Norna's unique AI-driven service helps fashion retailers with assortment planning and pricing through near real-time insights into changes in competitor pricing and offerings. Norna turned to Platform9 to solve two major challenges the company was facing in using a public cloud platform – the rapidly escalating costs for its public cloud-based infrastructure and the high demands on the team's time to manage its Kubernetes infrastructure. Platform9's Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service provided Norna with the simplest and fastest path to running its production, cloud-native data harvesting, and processing applications, enabling Norna to quickly deploy Kubernetes clusters with a rich set of pre-built, cloud-native services and infrastructure plug-ins. Rather than having to spend valuable engineering cycles on Kubernetes platform operations, Norna is now able to focus on its mission of becoming the world leader in applied AI. "As AI specialists, we cannot have in-house talent spending time becoming production Kubernetes experts," said Jonas Saric, founder and CEO of Norna.

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