VMware Comes Full Circle, to Release its Own OpenStack Flavor

Ever since 2012, we’ve covered the unsure stance that VMware has displayed toward emerging open source cloud computing platforms, including OpenStack, CloudStack and Eucalyptus. In this post, we reported that VMware’s CEO had cited OpenStack in particular as “lacking maturity.”

Now, VMware has moved to challenge the threat to its hegemony that OpenStack poses by working on its own distribution of OpenStack called VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIOS).