VMware To Penetrate OpenStack Cloud

NASA and Rackspace spun up OpenStack as an open-source alternative to VMware for spinning up clouds two years ago. Now VMWare has applied to become a full OpenStack member with a decision to be taken at the OpenStack group’s first full board of directors’ meeting today.

Intel and NEC will also apply to join OpenStack at the meeting.

VMware has applied for gold-level membership, meaning the company will have to cough 0.25 per cent of revenue, capped at $200,000; in VMware’s case that means $66,666.67 according to its application signed by company chief technology officer and research and development vice president Stephen Herrod. There was no word in VMware's application on why it's joining, though... Intel and NEC, meanwhile, will pay $200,000 as gold-level members.