VMware extends its embrace of the open-source OpenStack cloud platform.

In a nutshell, VIO is the open-source OpenStack code with VMware drivers, plus an OpenStack-specific management tool and reference architecture.

VMware is integrating OpenStack application programming interfaces (APIs) into its cloud management software, meaning that customers can run an OpenStack-based cloud using VMware’s management tools.

VMware's heart is proprietary, but to to deliver its functionality to customers, it uses open-source OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud.

PayPal has just announced its intention to embrace OpenStack cloud architecture, ripping out software from rival VMware in more than 80,000 servers to make room for the open-source solution ...

The reference architecture, now publicly available for download, outlines how Mirantis OpenStack, the leading OpenStack distribution, interoperates with VMware vCenter Server and VMware NSX. Mirantis ...

The third advantage also echoes claims made by other OpenStack vendors — that VIO is a “fully validated architecture,” as the company puts it, and VMware is an official support contact for ...

The real story — inside PayPal at least — is not about VMware versus OpenStack, but the architectural trade-offs around improving its private and hybrid clouds.

OpenStack will either change the cloud computing universe or be a muddled mess. Red Hat and VMware execs square off.

(Update: VMware Loses More Than $2 Billion in Market Cap on PayPal / Ebay Rumors) Boris Renski, co-founder of Mirantis, an OpenStack consultancy as well as OpenStack Foundation board member ...

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 ...