SAN FRANCISCO — VMware hasn’t traditionally had the best reputation in the open source community, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger admits. In fact, he sums it up in one word: “Bad.” But VMware’s on a mission ...

SAN FRANCISCO – VMware recently hired open source industry veteran Chip Childers to be its chief open source officer, continuing what has been a years-long process by the vendor to elevate its ...

VMware CEO Paul Maritz said the company has considered open sourcing its hypervisor and supporting virtualization tools made by competitors, but didn’t give any indication about if or when those ...

During the weekend of the OpenInfra Summit Europe in Paris, a whole day was dedicated to VMware migration. Open source developers lined up throughout the day to showcase how their products could be ...

Virtualization technology provider VMware has announced that it is partnering with AMD, Samsung, and members of the RISC-V keystone community for the development and operations of confidential ...

Yesterday after market close, VMware announced the acquisition of SpringSource, a small private open source software company, for $420 million. Given that SpringSource is private, we don’t know its ...

Hyperic Inc. is making available its virtualization management solution Hyperic HQ for VMware. According to the company, the solution will enable data centers to consolidate complete discovery, ...

Short-term. Long-term, your free open-source competition becomes a highly credible alternative in use by 80% of your former customers. At that point, why should the remaining 20% stick with you?

Virtual infrastructure software company VMware says that more than 300 schools are now participating in its free Academic Program, which provides products, resources, and source code at no cost to ...

Haven't heard of OpenNebula before... how does it compare to Proxmox? I'm going to look at migrating some VM hosts soon. I'd love to see a rundown of the Open Source options. Click to expand... It's ...