VIDEO: Dirk Hohndel, VP and chief open source officer at VMware, explains how the software firm works with and contributes to the open-source community.

Platform9’s new vJailbreak update converts VMware workloads to an open source infrastructure in place. This is a promising ...

Late last week, an important plate in VMWare's proprietary battle armor was cracked open when Fluid Operations, the company behind the eCloudmanager storage virtualization product open-sourced on ...

VMware is cozying up closer to the open source community by joining the a non-profit advocacy organization that is trying to get more government agencies on the open source bandwagon.

It would seem that VMware has a love/hate relationship going on with open source and the cloud. As my fellow Network World writer, Brandon Butler wrote about last week the VMware folks have taken ...

VMware on Tuesday launched an open source client for virtual desktops in a move that mixes a little bit of offense and defense.In a statement, the company said its VMware View Open Client would ...

Most notably, VMware has built an open-source platform called Cloud Foundry, which can run on top of practically any Amazon-like cloud setup, including both OpenStack and VMware vCloud Director.

Can open source innovate? VMware's CEO doesn't think so, but here's why she's wrong.

VMware has open sourced its View Client software which enables connections from Linux clients to remote Windows desktops managed by VMware View. VMware would like to see their partners developing ...

VMware took a step into open source today. This is good news for customers. Bad news for competitors.

SANTA CLARA – In a convincing example of the viability of open source networking, cloud provider DreamHost saved 70% in capital and 40% in operational costs by replacing VMware’s NSX SDN with ...

As such, Poonen’s belief in the open enterprise ecosystem has become a core tenet of VMware’s DNA. One of the main reasons for this is VMware’s emphasis on pleasing customers.