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 ...

One year ago VMware announced VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), designed to use OpenStack to bolster VMware — and vice versa. Now VIO 2.0 has arrived, with the same mission: It lets users with VMware ...

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 ...

SUSE, a Platinum member of the OpenStack Foundation, may have left the open-source, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) OpenStack cloud, but the project is going to move forward with the forthcoming ...

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 ...

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 ...

VMware (www.vmware.com) has unveiled VMware Integrated OpenStack 5, the newest release of VMware’s OpenStack distribution that is on the OpenStack Queens release. Available in both Carrier and Data ...

The problem with both the open source OpenStack cloud controller and its analog in the VMware world, formerly known as vCloud and now known as vRealize, is that neither of these tools have the look ...

OpenStack is getting bigger than ever. It now powers more than 75 public cloud data centers and thousands of private clouds at a scale of more than 10 million compute cores. But it's always been hard ...

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 ...

Last week when I wrote a post detailing PayPal's move to 100 percent OpenStack in its infrastructure, I caused howls of protest from VMware. The protests were understandable, partly because the ...