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 ...

Hone your OpenStack skills with a full deployment in a single virtual machine. It's hard to go anywhere these days without hearing something about the urgent need to deploy on-premises cloud ...

VMware Inc. and Rackspace Inc. have teamed up together to create a new, interoperable OpenStack cloud platform that was unveiled at #VMworld 2015 yesterday. The new architecture is aimed at helping ...

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 ...

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 faces a new reality that must have seemed like an unlikely scenario a few years ago. The virtualization king now faces a growing community of cloud companies that are vying to win business from ...

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 ...

While hyperscalers and HPC centers like the bleeding edge – their very existence commands that they be on it – enterprises are a more conservative lot. No IT supplier ever went broke counting on ...