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 ...

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 ...

Virtualization giant preps OpenStack distribution, perhaps as part of broader move to decouple its management tools and VM offerings ...

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 ...

VMware is integrating OpenStack application programming interfaces (APIs) into its cloud management software, meaning that customers can run an OpenStack-based cloud using VMware’s management tools.

The management of the OpenStack resources will be handled by VMware’s vSphere product thus keeping its customers tightly in the fold.

Most of all, VMware is really late to the party, and OpenStack is pushed by developers who are building out infrastructure for both public and enterprise cloud services.

New distribution will enable current VMware customers to access the functionality of the open-source cloud platform while maintaining their legacy VMware environments and workloads.

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 ...

But now, the OpenStack ecosystem — and the OpenInfra Foundationthat backs it — stands to gain from a rapid influx of former VMware users who are looking for an alternative.