Although VMware claims vSphere 4 is a "cloud operating system", it is not an operating system in the traditional sense — instead, it manages virtual processors across multiple cores and the ...

VMware has unveiled vSphere, the long awaited overhaul of its core virtualization platform that will aggregate all the virtual resources in the data center into one centrally managed computing pool.

VMware is said to be pursuing the Novell Suse Linux operating system part of the business, while Attachmate, a private-equity-backed software company, could end up buying some or all of the ...

Everything VMware introduces seems to be moving it in the direction of becoming the Internet operating system, including the new products announced on Tuesday.

OpenStack competes head-to-head with VMware's prize cloud operating system, vCloud. vCloud is the reason VMware spent $1.26 million on Nicira.

Ubuntu Server will be one of the first operating systems offered to customers of VMware's infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud, with OS images that should be portable across clouds operated by ...