For the most part, OpenStack does have feature parity with VMware, and at this point, it’s a well-known stable system. Its recent releases also helped the team push in that direction, too.

VMware has gone whole hog and announced its own distribution of OpenStack called VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), which runs exclusively on VMware’s software.

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.

VMware is in OpenStack because they see customers adopting it (most companies that adopt OpenStack are VMware customers) and they want to control it. They're not interested in openness or open ...

VMware’s virtualization platform and OpenStack are a good combination for a number of reasons, Gilmartin said. One is that a VMware base can provide management functions not found within ...

In 2012, however, VMware telegraphed its OpenStack evolution by acquiring Nicira, a software-defined networking developer contributing to the project, as well as DynamicOps, a vendor of cloud ...

While we see VMware as perhaps the main competitor to OpenStack, the company has also been hard at work making sure OpenStack is well supported with its other infrastructure, cloud and management ...

VMware is in fact part of the OpenStack Foundation — a Gold member, on the same tier as Cisco and Dell — but the openness of OpenStack may mean different things to its vendors than to its users.

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.

VMware prefers to see OpenStack as a way to sell its software into best-of-breed environments. Do you agree? Written by Larry Dignan, Contributor Aug. 14, 2013, 11:26 a.m. PT ...

“VMware is a much different company than it was even a few years ago when OpenStack was established. While we see VMware as perhaps the main competitor to OpenStack, the company has also been ...