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 ...

The software-defined datacentre represents the current phase in the evolution of IT delivery to the business. It is an approach largely driven by virtualisation and the rise of VMware -- and to a ...

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For its 18th code release, issued today, the OpenStack community is making the software easier to deploy on bare metal. The release, named “Rocky,” takes advantage of the way physical servers are ...

This is an opportunity for Platform9, founded back in 2013 by a bunch of VMware engineers specifically trying to solve the problem of making OpenStack clouds based on the KVM hypervisor – and now ...

Gluster, the software-only open source storage solution, has released its first major update for OpenStack since joining the initiative a few months back. It’s the latest in a string of updates ...

One year ago VMware announced VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), designed to use OpenStack to bolster VMware — and vice versa. Now VIO 2.0 has arrived, with the same mission: It lets users with VMware ...

While hyperscalers and HPC centers like the bleeding edge – their very existence commands that they be on it – enterprises are a more conservative lot. No IT supplier ever went broke counting on ...

SUSE, a Platinum member of the OpenStack Foundation, may have left the open-source, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) OpenStack cloud, but the project is going to move forward with the forthcoming ...

As VMware lifts the curtain on its annual festival to virtualization, cloud and the myriad ways software is eating the data center, for an event that’s become a milestone on the annual tech calendar ...