Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has left a lot of customers uneasy (and with rising bills). For the longest time, VMware was the de facto standard for enterprise virtualization. Now, a lot of ...

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 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’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 ...

Regardless of its intentions, however, VMware will have to wait at least a few months (possibly October 19) for the OpenStack board to decide if it will be allowed to join.

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 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 ...

For the most part, OpenStack does have feature parity with VMware, and at this point, it’s a well-known stable system. Its recent releases also helped the team push in that direction, too.