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 ...

Overall, we have to say that HHQ is a really strong “meta” console for VMWare environments. While it duplicates some of the functionality of the Virtual Center application shipped with VMware ESX 3.x ...

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 ...

Open vSwitch (OVS) today moved from an open source project hosted at VMware to a Linux Foundation project. “There’s been this perception that it was VMware run,” says Justin Pettit, senior staff at ...

VMware is introducing an open source version of its View product — specifically, an open source client for virtual desktop infrastructure aimed at the data center. Called “VMware View Open Client,” ...