OpenStack

| October 15, 2013

VMware has rolled out expanded support for non-VMware workloads in its management tools, including the added ability to manage OpenStack clouds and providing better visibility into Amazon and Microsoft clouds. The moves reflect VMware's desire to be a central management platform for multiple types of workloads in an IT shop. They also highlight the delicate nature of the cloud computing industry in which there are resources from various vendors, forcing companies like VMware to balance between e...

GoDaddy | March 06, 2014

GoDaddy has officially joined the OpenStack Foundation as a sponsor, following rumours that swirled in January after the hosting and domain name manager posted an engineer job spec on LinkedIn. The move is intended to accelerate GoDaddy’s push into the cloud services sector....

IBM | July 24, 2013

IBM today announced it's throwing its enterprise heft behind Cloud Foundry, the VMWare-spawned open source PaaS unveiled in 2011. Judging by the success that IaaS OpenStack has enjoyed since securing IBM's support a year ago, Big Blue's embrace of Cloud Foundry could help the service muscle past rival offerings from the likes of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Salesforce.com. Not only does Cloud Foundry stand to make strides with IBM's backing, so do OpenStack and Java, which also have s...

sdxcentral.com | January 23, 2020

Arista Networks bought SDN vendor Big Switch Networks, according to sources familiar with the deal.The purchase is Arista’s largest acquisition to date, according to a source. It’s also the networking vendor’s third acquisition Arista in 2018 snapped up cloud-managed WiFi firm Mojo Networks and then a month later bought Metamako, a provider of low-latency field programmable gate array (FPGA) products.While Arista ultimately won, Big Switch had a long list of suitors that wanted...