But now, the OpenStack ecosystem — and the OpenInfra Foundation that backs it — stands to gain from a rapid influx of former VMware users who are looking for an alternative.

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A few years ago VMware and OpenStack were foes. Oh, how times have changed. This week VMware is out with the 2.5 release of its VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO). The virtualization giant ...

(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 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 ...