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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.
VMware News
New variant of VMware ransomware prevents recovery
On February 6th, 2023, we published an article detailing how malicious actors launched new attacks using two-year-old VMware vulnerabilities known ...
VMWare ESXi is now available on Google Cloud
Google Cloud VMware Engine, a Google-managed VMware platform, is now available for Google Cloud users. Google's new solution allows users ...
New critical ransomware attacks targeting old VMware bug
In 2021, VMware found several vulnerabilities that could be used to attack computers, and recently, hackers have been spotted using ...
How to enable UEFI in VMware Workstation
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a computer firmware interface designed to replace the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS). UEFI is ...
How to connect VMware Workstation to local network
Virtual machines are programs that create an environment in which you can run other operating systems in isolated spaces, while ...
VMware fixes critical vRealize Log Insight security flaws
VMware was privately notified that it is facing multiple vulnerabilities with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 9.8. The vulnerabilities ...
How to install a Linux Distro on VMware Workstation
In order to install the Linux distribution on VMware, you must first create a virtual machine. If you haven't created ...
How to create a VM on VMware Workstation
A virtual machine (VM) is a software emulation of a physical machine. VMs are typically used to run multiple operating ...
VMware integrated Venafi’s machine identity management into Tanzu Service Mesh
Venafi control plane into Tanzu Service Mesh makes it easier and faster to enable multi-cloud and multi-cluster security. The Venafi ...
VMware fixes ESXi and vRealize security flaws
VMware fixes three vulnerabilities affecting multiple products and urged users to install the updates as soon as possible. The severity ...
A new backdoor targeting VMware ESXi servers was discovered
Juniper Networks researchers spotted an undocumented Python backdoor targeting VMware ESXi servers. Researchers noticed several indications that this attack was ...
VMware Fusion 13 comes with support for Apple chips
VMware Fusion 13 is now available and it brings support for the latest Macs that utilize Apple silicon under the ...
New VMware Anywhere Workspace update introduces new features
The latest enhancements to VMware Anywhere Workspace further incorporate intelligence and automation into every step of the process. VMware announced ...
VMware and Equinix unveiled VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal
VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal is a NEW Distributed Cloud Service to address the demands of latency-sensitive applications. The service ...
VMware patches five vulnerabilities affecting Workspace ONE Assist
VMware releases the patch for multiple vulnerabilities in VMware Workspace ONE Assist that were privately reported to VMware. Three of ...
VMware patches Cloud Foundation RCE vulnerability
VMware announced VMware Cloud Foundation contains a remote code execution vulnerability via XStream open-source library. The vulnerability, with a CVSSv3 ...
Thousands of VMware ESXi servers reached end-of-life
Out of 79,000 ESXi Servers installed across over 6,000 organizations, 36.49% are ESXi 6.7 and 21.30% are ESXi 6.5, which ...
VMware vCenter Server vulnerability still waiting for a patch after a year
A privilege escalation vulnerability found in the vCenter Server's IWA is affecting VMware's Cloud Foundation hybrid cloud platform deployments. VMware ...
Retbleed fix on kernel 5.19 causes a 70% performance hit on ESXi VMs
VMware performance team has tested Linux kernel 5.19 and found that this kernel version has a major performance hit on ...
VMware announced innovations in networking and security
VMware announced new innovations across its expanding networking and security portfolio, VMware Explore 2022. Project Northstar delivers multi-cloud networking, security, ...
VMware introduces a multi-cloud management portfolio: VMware Aria
VMware unveils new and enhanced portfolio offerings, Cross-Cloud services, and partner announcements at VMware Explore 2022. VMware also introduced VMware ...
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