VMware Open Source Blog

Earlier this year, Open vSwitch received the 2018 Software Systems Award at the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) annual Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR) in Los Angeles. The award recognizes a software system that’s been instrumental to SDN research. As the co-originator of Open vSwitch, I was honored to receive the award with my colleague Read more...

By Scott Mathis, SMTS UI/UX, Clarity Design System Team – VMware A year and a half ago, four of us at VMware launched the Clarity Design System. Since then, we’ve gone from a small, scrappy team to being the second most popular open source project at VMware. We’ve learned a lot in the process, so Read more...

Many people will say the best thing about a conference is the hallway track. But what exactly is a hallway track? The phrase is a reference to conferences having different tracks of presentation content. For example, there might be a series or track of discussion on one topic (e.g., security, networking, storage or community), or Read more...

KubeCon EU took Copenhagen by storm last week, and VMware was on-hand to display many of our open source projects and hold a week-long series of open source office hours that attracted many KubeCon attendees. Of particular note, VMware Chief Open Source Officer Dirk Hohndel delivered a keynote address and sat down for an in-depth interview with Read more...

We are living at the start of a golden age of computing. Prices have plummeted on computational costs, it’s gotten much simpler to build electronic devices and we’re almost at the point where simple sensors and some compute are disposable. Just look at your favorite retailer for proof of all the things that can connect Read more...