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 was a latecomer to software-defined networking, but its $1.2 billion acquisition of SDN startup Nicira, announced Monday, could help catapult it into the thick of this fast-emerging market.

Only the much larger VMWare also enjoys this type of distribution benefit -- and while the scarcity of vSwitches is a problem (3 or 6 via vSwitches controlled by VMWare & Nicira) -- the bigger ...

The latest version of Ionix Server Manager delivers complete virtualization visibility by adding discovery and monitoring of the VMware® vSwitch. This new capability allows EMC to uniquely integrate ...