Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover how technology helps business compete. This article is more than 10 years old. Last week saw 20,000 or so IT ...

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 ...

In a press conference on Monday, VMware spelled out the details for its previously announced distribution of OpenStack: VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO). With VIO, VMware has stepped out of the role ...

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 as ...

OpenStack is seen as an alternative to some of VMware’s virtualization products, but now VMware is bringing OpenStack into its fold. At VMworld 2014 today, the company announced its own version of ...

VMware has been focused on the software-defined data center for some years, but now the virtualization giant wants a piece of OpenStack too. The decision might be surprising to some, because OpenStack ...

I've been calling for traditional enterprise vendors such as VMware to make OpenStack more digestible to enterprise customers for a couple of years. VMware's latest offering turns this request into ...

Two years ago the news that VMware would be embracing OpenStack as a major headlining item on the first day of its major U.S. conference would have been borderline unimaginable. But today the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover how technology helps business compete. Many challenged my assumptions and instructed me in no uncertain terms that VMware ...

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 as ...