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

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 ...

A key aspect of this is how they implement and manage storage in the two environments. Here we look at VMware vs OpenStack, and assess their keys strengths and weaknesses in storage. VMware vSphere ...

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 notes that OpenStack’s vendor-neutral APIs can be used with VMware infrastructure, while also allowing its monitoring and management tools (such as vRealize Operations Manager) to ...

If you are a VMware customer looking to deploy OpenStack, it would be wise to explore additional options for OpenStack. Providers such as Platform9 have begun to embrace support of vSphere.

VMware has been actively involved in the OpenStack community since at least 2012 and has been a leading contributor to multiple projects, including the OpenStack Neutron networking effort. With ...

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.

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 ...