VMware is not necessarily known as a company that thoroughly embraces open source, but one of its top CTOs says OpenStack could play an important role as a standard in the cloud computing market.

SAN DIEGO - Continuing its commitment to the project and its newfound vision to support multiple types of cloud platforms, VMware announced support for its ESX hypervisor in OpenStack today.

Cisco's intention to buy Piston Cloud Computing and IBM's acquisition of Blue Box Group, both announced this week, are bids to make private cloud platform OpenStack less of a headache for IT ...

Managed backup and data recovery provider SecurStore announced plans earlier this month to use OpenStack and Rackspace Cloud Builders deployment for its cloud storage services.

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 ...

The idea here is to essentially turn OpenStack into a container-based workload that can be managed on OpenShift.

His previous book, " Software Defined Storage with OpenStack Swift," published in 2013, focused on how to use OpenStack Swift as a platform for a software-defined storage (SDS) system. "Object Storage ...

A survey of OpenStack users, done by members of the OpenStack Foundation has found that Ubuntu is by far the most widely used operating system with OpenStack, not Red Hat Enterprise Linux or ...

Cisco's plan to buy Piston Cloud Computing and IBM's acquisition of Blue Box Group are bids to make private cloud platform OpenStack less of a headache for IT shops.

Attachmate's Suse division has announced plans to offer software based on the OpenStack platform for enterprises to build private clouds.