VMware, Inc. (nyse: VMW) is the marketshare leader in virtualization software. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Palo Alto, California. The Company is majority owned by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC). The name "VMware" comes from the acronym "VM", meaning "virtual machine", combined with ware from the second part of "software".
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VMware is the global leader in virtualization software, providing desktop and server virtualization products for virtual infrastructure solutions.www.vmware.com/vmtn/blog/2006/01/VMware, Inc. (nyse: VMW) is the marketshare leader in virtualization software. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Palo Alto, California. The Company is majority owned by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC). The name "VMware" comes from the acronym "VM", meaning "virtual machine", combined with ware from the second part of "software".
VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. VMware's enterprise software, VMware ESX Server, runs directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system. This is known as being platform- or hardware-agnostic.
History
Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion founded VMware in 1998. Greene had earned a Master's Degree in Naval Architecture from MIT in 1978, and in 1988 she earned a second Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Rosenblum and Greene, who are married, first met while at Stanford. Edouard Bugnion remained the chief architect and CTO of VMware until 2005, and went on to found Nuova Systems (now part of Cisco).
The company has its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, United States, and established an R&D Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2005. VMware software runs on Windows and on Linux, and made its debut on Mac OS X in December, 2006.The customers, including 99 of the Fortune 100 companies, have realized significant benefits from virtualization, including lower total cost of ownership, higher return on investment and improved service levels to their customers.
VMware delivered its first product, VMware Workstation, in 1999 and entered the server market in 2001 with VMware GSX Server (hosted) and VMware ESX Server (hostless). With the launch of VMware Virtual Center in 2003, and the groundbreaking VMotion and Virtual SMP technology, the company established itself as the thought leader in the industry. 64-bit support appeared in 2004. The company was also acquired by EMC Corporation that same year.
In August 2007, EMC Corporation released 10% of the company's shares in VMware in an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock debuted at 29 USD per share and closed the day at 51 USD.
On July 8, 2008, VMware co-founder, president and CEO Diane Greene was unexpectedly fired by the VMware Board of Directors and replaced by Paul Maritz, a retired 14-year Microsoft veteran who was heading EMC's cloud computing business unit. In the same news release VMware stated that 2008 revenue growth will be "modestly below the previous guidance of 50% growth over 2007." As a result, market price of VMware dropped nearly 25%. Then on September 10, 2008, Rosenblum, the company's chief scientist, resigned from VMware.
On September 16, 2008, VMware announced that they are collaborating with Cisco to provide joint data center solutions. One of the first results of this is the Cisco Nexus 1000V, a distributed virtual software switch that will be an integrated option in the VMware infrastructure.
