VMware just spent $1.26 billion to secure its place in the future of computer networking. But in acquiring the swashbuckling Silicon Valley startup Nicira, the virtualization giant is also shifting ...

VMware has unveiled Cloud Foundry, an open-source platform for running applications in the cloud that is designed to make it easier for developers to build scalable, cloud-based software. Cloud ...

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VMware on Tuesday launched Cloud Foundry, an effort to enter the increasingly crowded platform as a service (PaaS) market. The difference with this effort is that VMware is going open source to grab ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

VMware unveiled a pair of open-source projects Monday, pitching them as technologies developers can use to build apps that take full advantage of what the cloud has to offer. The first, called Project ...

VMware said today that it wants to be the “Linux of the cloud.” The Linux-ization of cloud software, according to VMware, isn’t just about releasing code as open source—although that is part of it.

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 ...

Broadcom’s ongoing changes to VMware’s licensing and distribution channels have created a wave of enterprise concern that is propelling potential alternatives, with OpenStack the most recent to throw ...

News today from VMware of a couple of new open source projects that they're hoping will give it the opportunity to be an important player in the move to a new type of enterprise application. By way of ...

Virtualization software maker VMware is facing a lawsuit alleging that it has been violating the GPLv2 free software license for years with its use of Linux and other source code in ESXi. Linux kernel ...