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There has been no shortage of coverage on VMware Inc.’s recent decision to embrace OpenStack, the community-led project that threatens to displace its virtualization software as the leading management ...

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 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 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 ...

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 CEO Pat Gelsinger says he doesn’t expect open source cloud project OpenStack to catch on significantly in the enterprise market, instead he says it’s more of a platform for service providers to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I focus on disruptive trends in technology and cloud computing. "At PayPal, we are committed to collaborating with the open source ...

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 ...