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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
VMware broadens multi-cloud management support
VMware announced innovations for its products, including CloudHealth by VMware and VMware vRealize Cloud Management on-premises and software-as-a-service offerings. The updated solutions deepen the ...
Options Technology achieves VMware Cloud Verified status
Options Technology, a provider of IT infrastructure to global Capital Markets firms announced it has achieved VMware Cloud Verified status. ...
CoreSite announces the availability of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
CoreSite Realty Corporation announced the availability of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC as a partner of a VMware Technology Alliance ...
VMware announced Q4 and 2021 results
Enterprise software provider, VMware reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2021. According to the announcement, ...
Accenture introduces new business group with VMware
Accenture and VMware announced an expanded partnership. The duo also announced the launch of a dedicated business group that will ...
VMware enhances vRealize Cloud Management portfolio
VMware announced that the company has refreshed vRealize Cloud Management to better optimize, protect, and modernize hybrid and multi-cloud environments. ...
Fortinet integrates with VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.1 release
FortiGate-VM interoperated and integrated with VMware’s NSX-T Data Center 3.1 release. By combining FortiGate-VM functionalities with NSX-T, organizations can integrate ...
Intel appoints Pat Gelsinger as new CEO
Intel announced that VMware's current CEO, Pat Gelsinger will succeed Bob Swan, effective February 15. The 40-year technology industry leader ...
NSA says Russian state-sponsored hackers exploiting VMware products
The National Security Agency released a Cybersecurity Advisory concerning VMware products. According to the NSA's Advisory, Russian state-sponsored actors ...
VMware reports third quarter financial results
Enterprise software innovator, VMware announced financial results for the third quarter of the fiscal year 2021. According to the announcement, ...
Google Cloud VMware Engine is now available in Australia
Organizations can run the Google Cloud VMware Engine from Google’s Sydney cloud region. Google Cloud VMware Engine makes the migration ...
VMware introduces VMware Blockchain
VMware announced VMware Blockchain, a digital foundation that businesses can trust to build business networks and deploy decentralized applications. VMware ...
VMware introduces Modern Network Framework
VMware announces the next wave of Virtual Cloud Network innovation to enable a public cloud experience and to meet the ...
VMware Workspace ONE Access achieves FedRAMP Authorization
VMware Workspace ONE Access has achieved FedRAMP Moderate Authorization. VMware Workspace ONE Access joins VMware Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management, ...
VMware Cloud Director is now available at IKOULA
European IaaS company, IKOULA now offers VMware Cloud Director Solution, which allows users to easily create their own private clouds ...
Dell to announce several infrastructure portfolio innovations for VMware environments
Dell Technologies released several infrastructure portfolio innovations for VMware environments, designed to help customers better protect, manage and support traditional ...
Otava Launches Gen³ Cloud Platform
Secure and compliant cloud solutions provider, Otava announced the release of Gen³ Cloud built on VMware Cloud Director. The third ...
Rackspace Technology extends its VMware Multicloud Solutions
Rackspace Technology, an end-to-end multi-cloud technology solutions company, announced that it has expanded its managed services across VMware-based multi-cloud solutions. ...
VMware acquires SaltStack
SaltStack, a developer of security software for event-driven IT automation, remote task execution, and configuration management, has been acquired by ...
VMware unveils Project Monterey
VMware unveiled Project Monterey at VMworld 2020 event. Project Monterey is a technology preview focused on evolving its architecture for ...
VMware decides to unlock the power of Kubernetes on vSphere
VMware introduced Tanzu Editions to accelerate customers’ app modernization initiatives. According to the announcement, new VMware vSphere with VMware Tanzu ...