Last week saw 20,000 or so IT administrators and CIOs descend on San Francisco for virtualization-king VMware’s annual VMworld conference (disclosure, VMware covered my travel and expenses to attend ...

VMware is not necessarily known as a company that thoroughly embraces open source, but one of its top CTOs says OpenStack could play an important role as a standard in the cloud computing market. The ...

VMware has been focused on the software-defined data center for some years, but now the virtualization giant wants a piece of OpenStack too. The decision might be surprising to some, because OpenStack ...

I've been calling for traditional enterprise vendors such as VMware to make OpenStack more digestible to enterprise customers for a couple of years. VMware's latest offering turns this request into ...

Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has left a lot of customers uneasy (and with rising bills). For the longest time, VMware was the de facto standard for enterprise virtualization. Now, a lot of ...

VMware wants to bring enterprise-class reliability to OpenStack by releasing a distribution of cloud hosting software that runs on top of the virtualization stack. “There’s a lot of interest as ...

In a press conference on Monday, VMware spelled out the details for its previously announced distribution of OpenStack: VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO). With VIO, VMware has stepped out of the role ...

The problem with both the open source OpenStack cloud controller and its analog in the VMware world, formerly known as vCloud and now known as vRealize, is that neither of these tools have the look ...

VMware today announced the launch of VMware Integrated OpenStack 2.0, the company’s second release of its distribution of the OpenStack open-source cloud software. The new release, based on OpenStack ...

VMware is now officially a part of OpenStack. The newly-formed OpenStack Board of Directors voted Friday afternoon to accept VMware, along with Intel and NEC into the project as gold members. Jonathan ...

VMware's Raghu Raghuram said OpenStack, the open source cloud platform, will turn out to be an opportunity for the company because it will ultimately be able to sell its wares into best-of-breed ...

The software-defined datacentre represents the current phase in the evolution of IT delivery to the business. It is an approach largely driven by virtualisation and the rise of VMware -- and to a ...