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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwired - August 30, 2016) - Today at VMworld® 2016, VMware, Inc. (VMW) introduced VMware Integrated OpenStack 3, the latest release of VMware's OpenStack distribution now ...

For VMware, OpenStack is all about enabling choice for its users. “The goal with VIO is to make OpenStack an extremely well-integrated aspect of the VMware product portfolio,” Wendlandt said.

All is not well for VMware this year as PayPal has dumped its services and went open source. The first phase of the new deployment involves PayPal replacing VMware around 10,000 of its servers.

Most VMware users “sort of yawn” when the topic is OpenStack, Pat Gelsinger told the Wall Street Journal (registration required): “It’s just not relevant to them.” Okay, I get it.

For example, in the OpenStack Nova Compute project, a user can choose to use VMware ESX as the virtualization hypervisor. That’s right, VMware can (and does) work inside OpenStack.

True, VMware's virtualization management products overlap with OpenStack, but downloading and installing OpenStack from the OpenStack.org website would be like going to Kernel.org and downloading ...

VMware is now officially a part of OpenStack. The newly-formed OpenStack Board of Directors voted Friday afternoon to accept VMware, along with Intel and NEC into the project as gold members.

The OpenStack governance foundation has released its agenda for tomorrow's board meeting, and it included a surprise: they will be voting on whether or not to approve VMware's application for ...