VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. It is majority owned by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC).
VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, while VMware's enterprise software hypervisors for servers, VMware ESX and VMware ESXi are bare-metal embedded Hypervisors that run directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system.
In 1998, VMware was founded by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion. Greene and Rosenblum, who are married, first met while at the University of California, Berkeley.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, as well as one at the Time Warner Center in New York City, in 2005. VMware software runs on Windows and on Linux, and made its debut on Mac OS X in December, 2006. The VMware Infrastructure Client (VIC) - a mandatory piece of software - only runs on Microsoft platforms.
VMware operated throughout 1998 in stealth mode with roughly 20 employees by the end of that year. The company was launched officially in February 1999 at the DEMO Conference organized by Chris Shipley.
VMware delivered its first product, VMware Workstation, in May 1999[8] and entered the server market in 2001 with VMware GSX Server (hosted) and VMware ESX Server (hostless).[9] In 2003 VMware launched VMware Virtual Center, the VMotion and Virtual SMP technology. 64-bit support appeared in 2004. The company was also acquired by EMC Corporation that same year for $625 million.
In June 2006, VMware acquired privately-held Akimbi Systems.
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.
VMware acquired Tungsten Graphics, a company with core expertise in 3D graphics driver development on November 26, 2008.
On August 10, 2009, VMware announced the acquisition of SpringSource, a leader in enterprise and web application development and management.The acquisition is seen by the industry as a strategic move of VMware to become a leader in offering Platform as a Service (PaaS). The acquisition also resulted in the expansion of VMware's education services portfolio by the inclusion of SpringSource University and its authorized training partner - SpringPeople Technologies.
On Tuesday, January 12, 2010, VMware acquired Zimbra, an open-source collaboration software tool, from Yahoo.
On Thursday, May 6, 2010, VMware acquired GemStone, to be operated under VMware's SpringSource division.
On 12 April 2011, they released an open source Platform as a service system called Cloud Foundry, and a hosted version of the service. This supports application deployment for Java, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Node.js and support for MySQL, MongoDB and Redis.

VMware, Inc., incorporated in 1998, is a provider of virtualization solutions from the desktop to the data center. The Company’s suite of virtualization solutions addresses a range of complex information technology (IT) problems, that include cost and operational inefficiencies, facilitating access to cloud computing capacity, business continuity, software lifecycle management, and corporate computing device management. It works closely with more than 1,700 technology partners, including server, microprocessor, storage, networking and software vendors. The Company’s solutions are based upon its core virtualization technology and are organized into four main product groups: Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Application Platform, End-User Computing, and Virtualization and Cloud Management. In February 2010, the Company acquired Zimbra, the vendor of open source email and collaboration software, from Yahoo! Inc. In April 2010, it acquired certain software product technology and expertise from EMC’s Ionix IT management. As of December 31, 2010, it owned or leased facilities in Palo Alto, CA; North and Latin American region; Asia Pacific region, and Europe, Middle East and Africa region. In April 2011, the Company acquired SlideRocket.
Cloud Infrastructure Products and Technology
VMware vSphere is the Company’s flagship data center platform. Users can choose to deploy the VMware ESX or VMware ESXi hypervisor. VMware ESXi is a compact, small disk footprint version of VMware ESX. Other components of its various VMware vSphere offerings include VMware vMotion and VMware Storage vMotion, which enables the live migration of actively running virtual machines across servers or storage locations without disruption or downtime; VMware High Availability enables all applications against hardware and operating system failures; VMware Fault Tolerance enables zero downtime, zero data loss and continuous availability for applications; VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler enables continuous monitoring of virtual machines, that ensure optimal placement on hardware based on resource requirements and priorities, and VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch enables centralized point of control for cluster level networking.
During the year ended December 31, 2010, the Company announced VMware vShield, a new family of security products designed specifically for virtual data centers and cloud environments. vShield products include VMware vShield Edge provides perimeter network and security services for virtual datacenters, end-user computing and cloud environments; VMware vShield App provides application protection within the virtual datacenter, end-user computing and cloud environments, and VMware vShield Endpoint enables anti-virus agent offloading from guest virtual machines in virtual datacenters, end-user computing and cloud environments.
Cloud Application Platform
VMware Cloud Application Platform solutions helps organizations build, run and manage enterprise applications by utilizing application frameworks. The Company’s SpringSource product group develops and supports the Spring application framework for enterprise Java applications and the Grails framework for productivity Web applications written in the Groovy programming language. Its Cloud Application Platform provides open source application frameworks, application run-time and data management solutions, and monitoring solutions for enterprise applications and infrastructure. VMware Cloud Application Platform products include VMware vFabric tcServer, an enterprise Tomcat App server; VMware vFabric Enterprise Ready, an enterprise Apache Web server; VMware vFabric Hyperic provides Web and custom application monitoring and performance management; VMware vFabric GemFire enables real-time data distribution, caching and management for modern applications, and RabbitMQ provides robust and reliable inter-system messaging.
End-User Computing
VMware’s End-User Computing solutions are designed to enable a user-centric approach to personal computing that ensures secure access to applications and data from a variety of devices and locations, while also addressing the needs of corporate IT departments. VMware End-User Computing solutions include VMware View, an enterprise desktop virtualization platform designed to optimize application and desktop management; VMware ThinApp, an application virtualization solution designed to accelerate application deployment and simplify application migration; VMware Zimbra, an enterprise-class, calendar and collaboration platform based on the popular Zimbra open source project; VMware Workstation, a solution that enables multiple operating systems to run at the same time on a single endpoint device, and VMware Fusion, a solution for Apple users to seamlessly run Windows and Windows applications on an Intel processor-powered Apple OS X Macintosh computer. During 2010, VMware released VMware View 4.5, which introduced integrated offline desktop virtualization.
Virtualization and Cloud Management
VMware management solutions are designed to simplify and automate management of dynamic cloud infrastructure, cloud applications and end-user computing platforms. VMware virtualization and cloud management products help customers efficiency and availability of infrastructure resources, accelerate application development, manage application performance service levels and streamline IT processes. VMware virtualization and cloud management products include VMware vCenter Server, provides the central management and control point for vSphere environments; VMware vCenter Orchestrator automates tasks and workflows for vSphere, as well as other VMware and third party management solutions; VMware vCloud Director enables self-service access to logical pools of compute, network and storage resources with policy driven controls and service level agreements; VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager provides one-button disaster recovery for virtualized environments; VMware vCenter Lab Manager establishes an automated process for software development environments, and VMware vCenter Capacity intelligence quotient (IQ) provides virtual infrastructure capacity management, optimization and forecasting.
The Company’s VMware virtualization and cloud management products also include VMware vCenter Configuration Manager automates configuration management for virtual and physical servers, workstations and desktops; VMware vCenter AppSpeed enables troubleshooting application performance in virtual environments; VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager provides automated, real-time application discovery and dependency mapping for physical and virtual environments; VMware Service Manager automates IT Service Management processes; VMware vCloud Request Manager, automated approval workflows, license tracking and policy-based provisioning for vCloud Director-based cloud environments, and VMware vCenter Chargeback enables visibility, reporting and chargeback of virtual resource consumption and IT costs.
The Company competes with Microsoft and Citrix.

VMware software provides a completely virtualized set of hardware to the guest operating system. VMware software virtualizes the hardware for a video adapter, a network adapter, and hard disk adapters. The host provides pass-through drivers for guest USB, serial, and parallel devices. In this way, VMware virtual machines become highly portable between computers, because every host looks nearly identical to the guest. In practice, a system administrator can pause operations on a virtual machine guest, move or copy that guest to another physical computer, and there resume execution exactly at the point of suspension. Alternately, for enterprise servers, a feature called VMotion allows the migration of operational guest virtual machines between similar but separate hardware hosts sharing the same storage. Each of these transitions is completely transparent to any users on the virtual machine at the time it is being migrated.
VMware Workstation, Server, and ESX take a more optimized path to running target operating systems on the host than emulators (such as Bochs) which simulate the function of each CPU instruction on the target machine one-by-one, or dynamic recompilation which compiles blocks of machine-instructions the first time they execute, and then uses the translated code directly when the code runs subsequently. (Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac OS X takes this approach.) VMware software does not emulate an instruction set for different hardware not physically present. This significantly boosts performance, but can cause problems when moving virtual machine guests between hardware hosts using different instruction-sets (such as found in 64-bit Intel and AMD CPUs), or between hardware hosts with a differing number of CPUs. Stopping the virtual-machine guest before moving it to a different CPU type generally causes no issues.
VMware's products, which compete with those from companies such as Citrix and Microsoft, use the CPU to run code directly whenever possible (as, for example, when running user-mode and virtual 8086 mode code on x86). When direct execution cannot operate, such as with kernel-level and real-mode code, VMware products re-write the code dynamically, a process VMware calls "binary translation" or BT. The translated code gets stored in spare memory, typically at the end of the address space, which segmentation mechanisms can protect and make invisible. For these reasons, VMware operates dramatically faster than emulators, running at more than 80% of the speed that the virtual guest operating-system would run directly on the same hardware. In one study VMware claims a slowdown over native ranging from 0–6 percent for the VMware ESX Server.
VMware's approach avoids some of the difficulties of virtualization on x86-based platforms. Virtual machines may deal with offending instructions by replacing them, or by simply running kernel-code in user-mode. Replacing instructions runs the risk that the code may fail to find the expected content if it reads itself; one cannot protect code against reading while allowing normal execution, and replacing in-place becomes complicated. Running the code unmodified in user-mode will also fail, as most instructions which just read the machine-state do not cause an exception and will betray the real state of the program, and certain instructions silently change behavior in user-mode. One must always rewrite; performing a simulation of the current program counter in the original location when necessary and (notably) remapping hardware code breakpoints.


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Market Cap (Mil.): $39,406.90
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Name Age Since Current Position
Joseph Tucci 63 2007 Chairman of the Board
Paul Maritz 56 2011 Chief Executive Officer, Director
Mark Peek 53 2011 Chief Financial Officer, Co-President - Business Operations
Carl Eschenbach 44 2011 Co-President - Customer Operations
T.Tod Nielsen 45 2011 Co-President - Applications Platform
Richard McAniff 61 2011 Co-President - Products and Chief Development Officer
S. Dawn Smith 47 2010 Chief Compliance Officer, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
Betsy Sutter 50 2009 Senior Vice President - Human Resources
John Egan 53 2007 Director
David Goulden 51 2007 Director
Michael Brown 65 2007 Independent Director
David Strohm 62 2007 Independent Director
Renee James 46 2007 Independent Director
Dennis Powell 63 2007 Independent Director

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Palo Alto CA 94304
 

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