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- Legal Name: VMWare Inc.
- Website: www.vmware.com
- Founded: 1998
- Founder(s): Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang, Edouard Bugnion
- Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware
- Stock Symbol: NYSE: VMW
What is VMware?
VMware is a cloud computing and virtualization software provider. It is also one of the first companies to virtualize the x86 architecture. Vmware’s software is supported by Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. The majority of VMware’s shares are owned by Dell Technologies. Palo Alto-based company announced $8.98 billion in revenue for 2018.
VMware is founded by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Ellen Wang, Edouard Bugnion in 1998. The company didn’t make any public statements during its first year. The official launch was made during the DEMO conference in February of 1999. A few months later, the company released its first product, VMware Workstation. The company became a competitor in the server market in 2001 with two products, VMware GSX Server (hosted) and VMware ESX Server (hostless). VMware released VMware Virtual Center, vMotion, and Virtual SMP in 2003 and added the 64-bit support the following year.
In December of 2003, the company signed an agreement with EMC, now Dell EMC Under the terms of the definitive agreement, EMC acquired the company with $625 million in cash. In August of 2007, EMC sold 15% of its shares to the public via an IPO and shares that were priced at $29 per share, closed the day at $51. In 2008, the board of directors VMware co-founder, president, and CEO Diane Greene was replaced by Paul Maritz, a former 14-year Microsoft employee. A few months later Diane Greene’s husband, who is also a co-founder and chief scientist of VMware Mendel Rosenblum resigned from the company.
In April of 2011, the company released its open-source Cloud Foundry and a hosted version of the service. Java, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Node.js, and Scala was supported as well as database support for MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Postgres, and RabbitMQ. Two years later VMware launched IaaS service, vCloud Hybrid Service, which is rebranded as vCloud Air later on. In 2017, VMware sold vCloud Air to OVH. VMware now offers VMware vSphere, VMware ESXi, VMware Fusion, VMware Player, VMware ThinApp, VMware View, and VMware Infrastructure products.
Recent VMware News
Critical vulnerabilities affecting VMware products have been fixed
VMware has fixed another batch of vulnerabilities, approximately one month after the ones which were found in the VMware Workspace ...
Oracle introduces Oracle Cloud VMware Solution spring release
Since the release of Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, it helped users to take full advantage of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute ...
Critical VMware vulnerability is under attack
Hackers are exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22954, affecting VMware Workspace ONE Access to install backdoors. ...
A critical vulnerability is found in VMware Cloud Director
VMware has published an advisory regarding a recently discovered vulnerability that allows remote code execution on its Cloud Director product. ...
VMware patches a bug being exploited in the wild
VMware urged users to patch a critical vulnerability that has a CVSS score of 9.8 that impacts VMware Workspace ONE ...
VMware is urging its customers for patching their products
VMware has released an article related to VMSA-2022-0011 security vulnerabilities found in some of its products with the required patches ...
Spring Core Java framework Spring4Shell zero-day vulnerability has appeared
A new vulnerability was found in the Spring Core Java framework, which is a popular application framework for developing Java ...
VMware Cloud on AWS is available in AWS Marketplace
VMware introducing a more simple way for customers and partners to purchase and deploy VMware Cloud on AWS, which provides ...
The Apache Software Foundation welcomes VMware as a sponsor
The world’s largest Open Source foundation, Apache Software Foundation has announced that the organization is welcoming VMware as its latest ...
[Event] The future of VMware is going hybrid with IBM Cloud
Join us on March 15 at 11 AM CST and learn about an overview of IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions, ...
VMware reports fourth quarter and full year results
Enterprise software provider, VMware announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2022. During the period, the ...
VMware released patches for five high severity vulnerabilities
VMware has released several patches for the vulnerabilities which were found during the Tianfu Cup security event. Tianfu Cup had ...
VMware announced four new appointments to its leadership team
Enterprise software provider VMware announced the appointment of Laura Heisman as Chief Marketing Officer and Sylvain Cazard to General Manager, ...
Liquid Web achieved VMware Cloud Verified status
Liquid Web announced that the company has achieved VMware Cloud Verified status. The designation shows that the company is capable ...
BT launches VMware SASE as a managed service
VMware announced an agreement with a global communication services provider, BT, to offer global customers more choice and flexibility in ...
AvosLocker variant ransomware targeting VMware ESXi
According to various online news sources, a ransomware gang has added support to their ransomware to encrypt the Linux systems. ...
VMware patches a bug affecting multiple products
VMware published an advisory to address a heap-overflow vulnerability (CVE-2021-22045) in VMware Workstation, Fusion, and ESXi. The vulnerability was reported ...
VMware vCenter Server is targetted by hackers via Log4j flaws
Apache patches the Log4Shell library with fixes, new flaws, and attacks using the current flaws emerging. In the meantime, the ...
Megaport introduces VMware SD-WAN on MVE
Global NaaS provider, Megaport announced that VMware SD-WAN is now available on Megaport Virtual Edge. VMware SD-WAN will be interoperable ...
VMware Carbon Black Cloud helps understaffed security teams
VMware announced a new VMware Carbon Black Cloud capability which provides 24/7/365 monitoring, alert triage, and threat analyst guidance on ...
VMware announced two new vulnerabilities
VMware warned users about two new vulnerabilities that impact VMware vCenter Server and VMware Cloud Foundation. The vulnerabilities were privately ...