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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an opportunity for Platform9, founded back in 2013 by a bunch of VMware engineers specifically trying to solve the problem of making OpenStack clouds based on the KVM hypervisor – and now ...

VMware may not be one of OpenStack’s most prominent supporters, promoting its own open source framework, the Cloud Foundry, despite losing clients like PayPal to the Rackspace-initiated platform. Even ...

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 ...

OpenStack is seen as an alternative to some of VMware’s virtualization products, but now VMware is bringing OpenStack into its fold. At VMworld 2014 today, the company announced its own version of ...

Two years ago the news that VMware would be embracing OpenStack as a major headlining item on the first day of its major U.S. conference would have been borderline unimaginable. But today the ...

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 ...