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VMware

March 04, 2023

For the 1980s/mainframe software company see VM Software (company)
This article is about the company. For the paid hypervisor, see VMware Workstation. For the free hypervisor, see VMware Workstation Player.

VMware, Inc. is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California.[3] VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture.[self-published source][4]

VMware, Inc.
Entrance to campus headquarters, Palo Alto, California
TypePublic
Industry
FoundedFebruary 10, 1998; 25 years ago (1998-02-10)
Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Founders
HeadquartersStanford Research Park
Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Key people
Products
ServicesVirtualization software, SaaS, Cloud
Revenue US$12.85 billion (2022)
US$2.39 billion (2022)
US$1.82 billion (2022)
Total assets US$28.68 billion (2022)
Total equity US$−876 million (2022)
OwnerMichael Dell (40%)[1]
Number of employees
37,500 (2022)
Websitevmware.com
Footnotes / references
Financials as of January 28, 2022[2]

VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS. VMware ESXi, its enterprise software hypervisor, is an operating system[5] that runs on server hardware.[6]

In May 2022, Broadcom Inc. announced an agreement to acquire VMware in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $61 billion.[7]

History

 
Original logo from 1998 to 2009.

Early history

In 1998, VMware was founded by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion.[8] Greene and Rosenblum were both graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley.[9] Edouard Bugnion remained the chief architect and CTO of VMware until 2005,[10] and went on to found Nuova Systems (now part of Cisco). For the first year, VMware operated in stealth mode, with roughly 20 employees by the end of 1998. The company was launched officially early in the second year, in February 1999, at the DEMO Conference organized by Chris Shipley.[11] The first product, VMware Workstation, was delivered in May 1999, and the company entered the server market in 2001 with VMware GSX Server (hosted) and VMware ESX Server (hostless).[11][12]

In 2003, VMware launched VMware Virtual Center, vMotion, and Virtual Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) technology. 64-bit support was introduced in 2004.

EMC acquisition

On January 9, 2004, under the terms of the definitive agreement announced on December 15, 2003, EMC (now Dell EMC) acquired the company with $625 million in cash.[13][14] On August 14, 2007, EMC sold 15% of VMware to the public via an initial public offering. Shares were priced at US$29 per share and closed the day at US$51.[15][16]

On July 8, 2008, after disappointing financial performance, the board of directors fired VMware co-founder, president and CEO Diane Greene, who was replaced by Paul Maritz, a retired 14-year Microsoft veteran who was heading EMC's cloud computing business unit.[17] Greene had been CEO since the company's founding, ten years earlier.[18] On September 10, 2008, Mendel Rosenblum, the company's co-founder, chief scientist, and the husband of Diane Greene, resigned.[19]

On September 16, 2008, VMware announced a collaboration with Cisco Systems.[20] One result was the Cisco Nexus 1000V, a distributed virtual software switch, an integrated option in the VMware infrastructure.[21]

In April 2011, EMC transferred control of the Mozy backup service to VMware.[22]

On April 12, 2011, VMware released an open-source platform-as-a-service system called Cloud Foundry, as well as a hosted version of the service. This supported application deployment for Java, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Node.js, and Scala, as well as database support for MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Postgres, RabbitMQ.[23][24]

In August 2012, Pat Gelsinger was appointed as the new CEO of VMware, coming over from EMC. Paul Maritz went over to EMC as Head of Strategy before moving on to lead the Pivotal spin-off.[25]

In March 2013, VMware announced the corporate spin-off of Pivotal Software, with General Electric making an investment in the company. All of VMware's application- and developer-oriented products, including Spring, tc Server, Cloud Foundry, RabbitMQ, GemFire, and SQLFire were transferred to this organization.[26]

In May 2013, VMware launched its own IaaS service, vCloud Hybrid Service, at its new Palo Alto headquarters (vCloud Hybrid Service was rebranded vCloud Air and subsequently sold to cloud provider OVH), announcing an early access program in a Las Vegas data center. The service is designed to function as an extension of its customer's existing vSphere installations, with full compatibility with existing virtual machines virtualized with VMware software and tightly integrated networking. The service is based on vCloud Director 5.1/vSphere 5.1.[27]

In September 2013, at VMworld San Francisco, VMware announced the general availability of vCloud Hybrid Service and expansion to Sterling, Virginia, Santa Clara, California, Dallas, Texas, and a service beta in the UK. It announced the acquisition Desktone in October 2013.[28]

Dell acquisition

In January 2016, in anticipation of Dell's acquisition of EMC, VMware announced a restructuring to reduce about 800 positions, and some executives resigned.[29][30][31][32][33] The entire development team behind VMware Workstation and Fusion was disbanded and all US developers were immediately fired.[29][30][31][33] On April 24, 2016, maintenance release 12.1.1 was released. On September 8, 2016, VMware announced the release of Workstation 12.5 and Fusion 8.5 as a free upgrade supporting Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.[34]

In April 2016, VMware president and COO Carl Eschenbach left VMware to join Sequoia Capital, and Martin Casado, VMware's general manager for its Networking and Security business, left to join Andreessen Horowitz. Analysts commented that the cultures at Dell and EMC, and at EMC and VMware, are different, and said that they had heard that impending corporate cultural collisions and potentially radical product overlap pruning, would cause many EMC and VMware personnel to leave;[35] VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger, following rumors, categorically denied that he would leave.[36][32]

In August 2016 VMware introduced the VMware Cloud Provider website.[37]

Mozy was transferred to Dell in 2016 after the merger of Dell and EMC.[38]

In April 2017, according to Glassdoor, VMware was ranked 3rd on the list of highest paying companies in the United States.[39]

In Q2 2017, VMware sold vCloud Air to French cloud service provider OVH.[40]

On January 13, 2021, VMware announced that CEO Pat Gelsinger would be leaving to step in at Intel.[41] Intel is where Gelsinger spent 30 years of his career and was Intel's first chief technology officer. CFO Zane Rowe became interim CEO while the board searched for a replacement.

On April 15, 2021, it was reported that Dell would spin off its remaining stake in VMware to shareholders and that the two companies would continue to operate without major changes for at least five years.[42] The spinoff was completed on November 1, 2021.[43]

On May 12, 2021, VMware announced that Raghu Raghuram would take over as CEO.[44]

In May 2022, VMware announced that the company had partnered with Formula One motor racing team, McLaren Racing.[45]

Broadcom acquisition

On May 26, 2022, it was announced that Broadcom will acquire VMware for approximately $61 billion in cash and stock in addition to assuming $8 billion of VMware's net debt, and that Broadcom Software Group would rebrand and operate as VMware.[46][7] The transaction is expected to close during Broadcom’s fiscal year 2023.[7] In November 2022, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority regulator announced it would investigate whether the Broadcom Inc. acquisition of VMware Inc. would "result in a substantial lessening of competition within any market or markets in the United Kingdom for goods or services".[47][48]

Log4Shell vulnerability

Beginning in January 2022, hackers infiltrated servers using the Log4Shell vulnerability at organizations who failed to implement available patches released by VMware according to PCMag.[49] ZDNet reported in March 2022 that hackers utilized Log4Shell on some customers' VMware servers to install backdoors and for cryptocurrency mining.[50] In May 2022, Bleeping Computer reported that the Lazarus Group cybercrime group, which is possibly linked to North Korea, was actively using Log4Shell "to inject backdoors that fetch information-stealing payloads on VMware Horizon servers", including VMware Horizon.[51]

Acquisitions

Announcement Date Company Description References
October 2005 Asset Optimization Group Specialized in capacity planning. [52]
June 2006 Akimbi Systems Specialized in lab management. [53]
April 2007 Propero London-based VDI provider. [54]
September 2007 Dunes Technologies VMware acquired the Switzerland-based company for an undisclosed sum. [55][56]
October 2007 Sciant VMware acquired the Bulgaria-based outsourcing company for an undisclosed sum.
January 2, 2008 Foedus VMware acquired the New Hampshire (U.S.) based professional services company for an undisclosed sum.
July 2008 B-hive Networks VMware acquired the Israel-based start-up for an undisclosed sum. Following the acquisition VMware opened an R&D center in Israel, based initially on B-Hive's facilities and team in Israel. [57]
October 2008 Trango Virtual Processors Was a Grenoble-based ARM hypervisor developer. [58][59]
October 2008 Blue Lane Technologies Virtual firewall. Was integrated into vCloud networking but ultimately replaced by the much broader NSX virtual networking capabilities. [60]
November 26, 2008 Tungsten Graphics Core expertise in 3D graphics driver development. [61]
August 10, 2009 SpringSource Inventors of Spring Java open source, the most popular enterprise Java app framework for building web apps and microservices. The acquisition expanded VMware's education services to include SpringSource University and its authorized training partners such as Spring People in India. Spring became part of the Pivotal Software spin-out, spin-in. [62][63]
January 12, 2010 Zimbra (software) Open source email system looking to challenge Exchange et al. Acquired from Yahoo and (later sold in July 2013 to Telligent Systems). [64]
May 6, 2010 GemStone Systems A highly scalable, distributed in-memory database. The Java product was included in the Pivotal spin-out and ultimately open sourced as Apache Geode. The Smalltalk product was bought by GemTalk Systems. [65]
Jan 2011 NeoAccel Inc Incorporated into NSX. [66]
April 26, 2011 SlideRocket A startup which developed a SaaS application for building business presentations that are stored online. Through a Web-based interface, users can handle all parts of the process, from designing slides and compiling content, to reviewing documents and publishing and delivering them. VMware subsequently sold SlideRocket to ClearSlide on March 5, 2013. [67][68]
May 31, 2011 Socialcast "Like Facebook, but private and for your own employees". Enterprise Social Networking and Collaboration. [69][70]
August 2011 PacketMotion User Activity Monitoring startup. Its PacketSentry product was planned to be incorporated into VMware vCloud Networking and Security but then it was discontinued by the end of 2012. [71][72]
May 22, 2012 Wanova [73]
July 2, 2012 DynamicOps A cloud management system originally spun out of Credit Suisse. VMware rebranded products as vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestrator, and ultimately incorporated into the vRealize Suite—now branded as VMware Aria Automation. [74][75]
July 23, 2012 Nicira Software for network virtualization, rebranded as VMware NSX. Acquired for $1.2 billion. Nicira was founded in 2007 by Martin Casado, Nick McKeown and Scott Shenker. [76][77][78][79]
February 11, 2013 Virsto [80][81][82]
October 15, 2013 Desktone Desktop-as-a-service provider [83][84]
January 22, 2014 AirWatch and Wandering WiFi System for managing the security, audit and configuration of mobile devices in enterprises. Acquired for US$1.54 billion. [85][86][87]
March 6, 2014 ThirdSky ITIL/ITSM Consulting. [88]
August 20, 2014 CloudVolumes (formerly SnapVolumes) Real-time application delivery and virtualization to virtual desktop infrastructure [89][90]
October 29, 2014 Continuent Database clustering and replication software [91]
October 2014 MomentumSI Austin, TX based professional services firm specializing in cloud migration and DevOps expertise [92][93]
June 13, 2016 Arkin Net vRealize Network Insight - Discover, Optimize and Troubleshoot App Security and Network Connectivity [94][95][96]
April 12, 2017 Wavefront Cloud-based metrics and monitoring (now VMware Tanzu Wavefront Observability) [97][98][99]
May 15, 2017 Apteligent Mobile application performance. [100]
December 12, 2017 VeloCloud Networks Software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN). [101]
February 18, 2018 CloudCoreo Cloud configuration-management [102]
February 22, 2018 CloudVelox Hybrid cloud automation and orchestration software [103]
March 28, 2018 E8 Security Software for protecting employee devices from online threats. [104]
May 14, 2018 Bracket Computing Security virtualization technology. [105]
August 27, 2018 CloudHealth Technologies Cloud cost, usage, security, and governance management platform. [106]
Nov 6, 2018 Heptio Kubernetes Software and Services. [107]
February 2019 Aetherpal Remote support capabilities for the Workspace ONE platform. [108]
May 15, 2019 BitRock Cross platform installer creation tool. [109][110]
July 2019 Avi Networks Cloud application services, including Load Balancer, WAF, and Service Mesh. [111]
July 18, 2019 Bitfusion computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning. [112]
August 20, 2019 Intrinsic application and serverless security. [113]
October 8, 2019 Carbon Black Cloud-native endpoint security software that is designed to detect malicious behavior and to help prevent malicious files from attacking an organization. [114]
December 30, 2019 Pivotal Software Cloud-native platform provider of digital transformation technology and services. [115]
July 31, 2020 Lastline Cyber security and breach detection platform provider. [116]
September 29, 2020 SaltStack Automation and configuration management software. [117][118]

Litigation

In March 2015, the Software Freedom Conservancy announced it was funding litigation by Christoph Hellwig in Hamburg, Germany against VMware for alleged violation of his copyrights in its ESXi product.[119] Hellwig's core claim is that ESXi is a derivative work of the GPLv2-licensed Linux kernel 2.4, and therefore VMware is not in compliance with GPLv2 because it does not publish the source code to ESXi.[120] VMware publicly stated that ESXi is not a derivative of the Linux kernel,[121] denying Hellwig's core claim. VMware said it offered a way to use Linux device drivers with ESXi, and that code does use some Linux GPLv2-licensed code and so it had published the source, meeting GPLv2 requirements.[122]

The lawsuit was dismissed by the court in July 2016[123] and Hellwig announced he would file an appeal.[124] The appeal was decided February 2019 and again dismissed by German court, on the basis of not meeting "procedural requirements for the burden of proof of the plaintiff."[125][126]

Current products

VMware's most notable products are its hypervisors. VMware became well known for its first type 2 hypervisor known as GSX. This product has since evolved into two hypervisor product lines: VMware's type 1 hypervisors running directly on hardware and their hosted type 2 hypervisors.

VMware software provides a completely virtualized set of hardware to the guest operating system.[127] 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. Alternatively, 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[128] (or, with vMotion Storage, separate storage can be used, too). Each of these transitions is completely transparent to any users on the virtual machine at the time it is being migrated.

VMware's products predate the virtualization extensions to the x86 instruction set, and do not require virtualization-enabled processors. On newer processors, the hypervisor is now designed to take advantage of the extensions. However, unlike many other hypervisors, VMware still supports older processors. In such cases, it uses 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 use binary translation (BT) to re-write the code dynamically. 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.[129]

Desktop software

  • VMware Workstation, introduced in 1999, was the first product launched by VMware. This software suite allows users to run multiple instances of x86 or x86-64-compatible operating systems on a single physical personal computer. The current version, 17.0, was released in November 17, 2022.
  • VMware Fusion provides similar functionality for users of the Intel Mac platform, along with full compatibility with virtual machines created by other VMware products.
  • VMware Workstation Player is freeware for non-commercial use, without requiring a license, and available for commercial use with permission. It is similar to VMware Workstation, with reduced functionality, such as "UEFI Secure Boot Support".[130]

Server software

VMware ESXi,[131] an enterprise software product, can deliver greater performance than the freeware VMware Server, due to lower system computational overhead. VMware ESXi, as a "bare-metal" product, runs directly on the server hardware, allowing virtual servers to also use hardware more or less directly. In addition, VMware ESXi integrates into VMware vCenter, which offers extra services.

Cloud management software

  • VMware vRealize Suite – a cloud management platform purpose-built for a hybrid cloud.
  • VMware Go is a web-based service to guide users of any expertise level through the installation and configuration of VMware vSphere Hypervisor.[132]
  • VMware Cloud Foundation – Cloud Foundation provides an easy way to deploy and operate a private cloud on an integrated SDDC system.
  • VMware Horizon View is a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) product.
  • vSphere+ and vSAN+ – activates add-on hybrid cloud services for business-critical applications running on-premises, including disaster recovery and ransomware protection[133]

Application management

The VMware Workspace Portal was a self-service app store for workspace management.[134]

Storage and availability

VMware's storage and availability products are composed of two primary offerings:

  • VMware vSAN (previously called VMware Virtual SAN) is software-defined storage that is embedded in VMware's ESXi hypervisor.[135][136] The vSphere and vSAN software runs on industry-standard x86 servers to form a hyper-converged infrastructure (or HCI). However, network operators need to have servers from HCL (Hardware Compatibility List) to put one into production.[137] The first release, version 5.5, was released in March 2014.[138][139] The 6th generation, version 6.6, was released in April 2017.[140][141] New features available in VMware vSAN 6.6 include native data at rest encryption, local protection for stretched clusters, analytics, and optimized solid-state drive performance.[142] The VMWare 6.7 version was released in April 2018, Users now have improved monitoring tools and new workflows, it is closer to feature parity. The vCenter Server Appliance architecture is moving around to an easy deployment method.
  • VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) automates the failover and failback of virtual machines to and from a secondary site using policy-based management.[143][144]

Networking and security products

  • VMware NSX is VMware's network virtualization product marketed using the term software-defined data center (SDDC).[145][146] The technology included some acquired from the 2012 purchase of Nicira.[77][78] Software Defined Networking (SDN) allows the same policies that govern Identity and Access Management (IAM) to dictate levels of access to applications and data through a totally converged infrastructure not possible with legacy network and system access methods.

Other products

See also

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For the 1980s mainframe software company see VM Software company This article is about the company For the paid hypervisor see VMware Workstation For the free hypervisor see VMware Workstation Player VMware Inc is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company with headquarters in Palo Alto California 3 VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture self published source 4 VMware Inc Entrance to campus headquarters Palo Alto CaliforniaTypePublicTraded asNYSE VMW Class A Russell 1000 componentIndustryCloud computingVirtualizationComputer softwareFoundedFebruary 10 1998 25 years ago 1998 02 10 Palo Alto California U S FoundersMendel RosenblumDiane GreeneScott DevineEllen WangEdouard BugnionHeadquartersStanford Research ParkPalo Alto California U S Key peopleMichael Dell chairman Rangarajan Raghuram CEO ProductsVMware vSphereVMware ESXiVMware FusionVMware PlayerVMware ThinAppVMware ViewVMware InfrastructureServicesVirtualization software SaaS CloudRevenueUS 12 85 billion 2022 Operating incomeUS 2 39 billion 2022 Net incomeUS 1 82 billion 2022 Total assetsUS 28 68 billion 2022 Total equityUS 876 million 2022 OwnerMichael Dell 40 1 Number of employees37 500 2022 Websitevmware comFootnotes referencesFinancials as of January 28 2022 update 2 VMware s desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows Linux and macOS VMware ESXi its enterprise software hypervisor is an operating system 5 that runs on server hardware 6 In May 2022 Broadcom Inc announced an agreement to acquire VMware in a cash and stock transaction valued at 61 billion 7 Contents 1 History 1 1 Early history 1 2 EMC acquisition 1 3 Dell acquisition 1 4 Broadcom acquisition 1 5 Log4Shell vulnerability 1 6 Acquisitions 1 7 Litigation 2 Current products 2 1 Desktop software 2 2 Server software 2 3 Cloud management software 2 4 Application management 2 5 Storage and availability 2 6 Networking and security products 2 7 Other products 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksHistory Edit Original logo from 1998 to 2009 Early history Edit In 1998 VMware was founded by Diane Greene Mendel Rosenblum Scott Devine Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion 8 Greene and Rosenblum were both graduate students at the University of California Berkeley 9 Edouard Bugnion remained the chief architect and CTO of VMware until 2005 10 and went on to found Nuova Systems now part of Cisco For the first year VMware operated in stealth mode with roughly 20 employees by the end of 1998 The company was launched officially early in the second year in February 1999 at the DEMO Conference organized by Chris Shipley 11 The first product VMware Workstation was delivered in May 1999 and the company entered the server market in 2001 with VMware GSX Server hosted and VMware ESX Server hostless 11 12 In 2003 VMware launched VMware Virtual Center vMotion and Virtual Symmetric Multi Processing SMP technology 64 bit support was introduced in 2004 EMC acquisition Edit On January 9 2004 under the terms of the definitive agreement announced on December 15 2003 EMC now Dell EMC acquired the company with 625 million in cash 13 14 On August 14 2007 EMC sold 15 of VMware to the public via an initial public offering Shares were priced at US 29 per share and closed the day at US 51 15 16 On July 8 2008 after disappointing financial performance the board of directors fired VMware co founder president and CEO Diane Greene who was replaced by Paul Maritz a retired 14 year Microsoft veteran who was heading EMC s cloud computing business unit 17 Greene had been CEO since the company s founding ten years earlier 18 On September 10 2008 Mendel Rosenblum the company s co founder chief scientist and the husband of Diane Greene resigned 19 On September 16 2008 VMware announced a collaboration with Cisco Systems 20 One result was the Cisco Nexus 1000V a distributed virtual software switch an integrated option in the VMware infrastructure 21 In April 2011 EMC transferred control of the Mozy backup service to VMware 22 On April 12 2011 VMware released an open source platform as a service system called Cloud Foundry as well as a hosted version of the service This supported application deployment for Java Ruby on Rails Sinatra Node js and Scala as well as database support for MySQL MongoDB Redis Postgres RabbitMQ 23 24 In August 2012 Pat Gelsinger was appointed as the new CEO of VMware coming over from EMC Paul Maritz went over to EMC as Head of Strategy before moving on to lead the Pivotal spin off 25 In March 2013 VMware announced the corporate spin off of Pivotal Software with General Electric making an investment in the company All of VMware s application and developer oriented products including Spring tc Server Cloud Foundry RabbitMQ GemFire and SQLFire were transferred to this organization 26 In May 2013 VMware launched its own IaaS service vCloud Hybrid Service at its new Palo Alto headquarters vCloud Hybrid Service was rebranded vCloud Air and subsequently sold to cloud provider OVH announcing an early access program in a Las Vegas data center The service is designed to function as an extension of its customer s existing vSphere installations with full compatibility with existing virtual machines virtualized with VMware software and tightly integrated networking The service is based on vCloud Director 5 1 vSphere 5 1 27 In September 2013 at VMworld San Francisco VMware announced the general availability of vCloud Hybrid Service and expansion to Sterling Virginia Santa Clara California Dallas Texas and a service beta in the UK It announced the acquisition Desktone in October 2013 28 Dell acquisition Edit In January 2016 in anticipation of Dell s acquisition of EMC VMware announced a restructuring to reduce about 800 positions and some executives resigned 29 30 31 32 33 The entire development team behind VMware Workstation and Fusion was disbanded and all US developers were immediately fired 29 30 31 33 On April 24 2016 maintenance release 12 1 1 was released On September 8 2016 VMware announced the release of Workstation 12 5 and Fusion 8 5 as a free upgrade supporting Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 34 In April 2016 VMware president and COO Carl Eschenbach left VMware to join Sequoia Capital and Martin Casado VMware s general manager for its Networking and Security business left to join Andreessen Horowitz Analysts commented that the cultures at Dell and EMC and at EMC and VMware are different and said that they had heard that impending corporate cultural collisions and potentially radical product overlap pruning would cause many EMC and VMware personnel to leave 35 VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger following rumors categorically denied that he would leave 36 32 In August 2016 VMware introduced the VMware Cloud Provider website 37 Mozy was transferred to Dell in 2016 after the merger of Dell and EMC 38 In April 2017 according to Glassdoor VMware was ranked 3rd on the list of highest paying companies in the United States 39 In Q2 2017 VMware sold vCloud Air to French cloud service provider OVH 40 On January 13 2021 VMware announced that CEO Pat Gelsinger would be leaving to step in at Intel 41 Intel is where Gelsinger spent 30 years of his career and was Intel s first chief technology officer CFO Zane Rowe became interim CEO while the board searched for a replacement On April 15 2021 it was reported that Dell would spin off its remaining stake in VMware to shareholders and that the two companies would continue to operate without major changes for at least five years 42 The spinoff was completed on November 1 2021 43 On May 12 2021 VMware announced that Raghu Raghuram would take over as CEO 44 In May 2022 VMware announced that the company had partnered with Formula One motor racing team McLaren Racing 45 Broadcom acquisition Edit On May 26 2022 it was announced that Broadcom will acquire VMware for approximately 61 billion in cash and stock in addition to assuming 8 billion of VMware s net debt and that Broadcom Software Group would rebrand and operate as VMware 46 7 The transaction is expected to close during Broadcom s fiscal year 2023 7 In November 2022 the UK s Competition and Markets Authority regulator announced it would investigate whether the Broadcom Inc acquisition of VMware Inc would result in a substantial lessening of competition within any market or markets in the United Kingdom for goods or services 47 48 Log4Shell vulnerability Edit Beginning in January 2022 hackers infiltrated servers using the Log4Shell vulnerability at organizations who failed to implement available patches released by VMware according to PCMag 49 ZDNet reported in March 2022 that hackers utilized Log4Shell on some customers VMware servers to install backdoors and for cryptocurrency mining 50 In May 2022 Bleeping Computer reported that the Lazarus Group cybercrime group which is possibly linked to North Korea was actively using Log4Shell to inject backdoors that fetch information stealing payloads on VMware Horizon servers including VMware Horizon 51 Acquisitions Edit Announcement Date Company Description ReferencesOctober 2005 Asset Optimization Group Specialized in capacity planning 52 June 2006 Akimbi Systems Specialized in lab management 53 April 2007 Propero London based VDI provider 54 September 2007 Dunes Technologies VMware acquired the Switzerland based company for an undisclosed sum 55 56 October 2007 Sciant VMware acquired the Bulgaria based outsourcing company for an undisclosed sum January 2 2008 Foedus VMware acquired the New Hampshire U S based professional services company for an undisclosed sum July 2008 B hive Networks VMware acquired the Israel based start up for an undisclosed sum Following the acquisition VMware opened an R amp D center in Israel based initially on B Hive s facilities and team in Israel 57 October 2008 Trango Virtual Processors Was a Grenoble based ARM hypervisor developer 58 59 October 2008 Blue Lane Technologies Virtual firewall Was integrated into vCloud networking but ultimately replaced by the much broader NSX virtual networking capabilities 60 November 26 2008 Tungsten Graphics Core expertise in 3D graphics driver development 61 August 10 2009 SpringSource Inventors of Spring Java open source the most popular enterprise Java app framework for building web apps and microservices The acquisition expanded VMware s education services to include SpringSource University and its authorized training partners such as Spring People in India Spring became part of the Pivotal Software spin out spin in 62 63 January 12 2010 Zimbra software Open source email system looking to challenge Exchange et al Acquired from Yahoo and later sold in July 2013 to Telligent Systems 64 May 6 2010 GemStone Systems A highly scalable distributed in memory database The Java product was included in the Pivotal spin out and ultimately open sourced as Apache Geode The Smalltalk product was bought by GemTalk Systems 65 Jan 2011 NeoAccel Inc Incorporated into NSX 66 April 26 2011 SlideRocket A startup which developed a SaaS application for building business presentations that are stored online Through a Web based interface users can handle all parts of the process from designing slides and compiling content to reviewing documents and publishing and delivering them VMware subsequently sold SlideRocket to ClearSlide on March 5 2013 67 68 May 31 2011 Socialcast Like Facebook but private and for your own employees Enterprise Social Networking and Collaboration 69 70 August 2011 PacketMotion User Activity Monitoring startup Its PacketSentry product was planned to be incorporated into VMware vCloud Networking and Security but then it was discontinued by the end of 2012 71 72 May 22 2012 Wanova 73 July 2 2012 DynamicOps A cloud management system originally spun out of Credit Suisse VMware rebranded products as vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestrator and ultimately incorporated into the vRealize Suite now branded as VMware Aria Automation 74 75 July 23 2012 Nicira Software for network virtualization rebranded as VMware NSX Acquired for 1 2 billion Nicira was founded in 2007 by Martin Casado Nick McKeown and Scott Shenker 76 77 78 79 February 11 2013 Virsto 80 81 82 October 15 2013 Desktone Desktop as a service provider 83 84 January 22 2014 AirWatch and Wandering WiFi System for managing the security audit and configuration of mobile devices in enterprises Acquired for US 1 54 billion 85 86 87 March 6 2014 ThirdSky ITIL ITSM Consulting 88 August 20 2014 CloudVolumes formerly SnapVolumes Real time application delivery and virtualization to virtual desktop infrastructure 89 90 October 29 2014 Continuent Database clustering and replication software 91 October 2014 MomentumSI Austin TX based professional services firm specializing in cloud migration and DevOps expertise 92 93 June 13 2016 Arkin Net vRealize Network Insight Discover Optimize and Troubleshoot App Security and Network Connectivity 94 95 96 April 12 2017 Wavefront Cloud based metrics and monitoring now VMware Tanzu Wavefront Observability 97 98 99 May 15 2017 Apteligent Mobile application performance 100 December 12 2017 VeloCloud Networks Software defined wide area network SD WAN 101 February 18 2018 CloudCoreo Cloud configuration management 102 February 22 2018 CloudVelox Hybrid cloud automation and orchestration software 103 March 28 2018 E8 Security Software for protecting employee devices from online threats 104 May 14 2018 Bracket Computing Security virtualization technology 105 August 27 2018 CloudHealth Technologies Cloud cost usage security and governance management platform 106 Nov 6 2018 Heptio Kubernetes Software and Services 107 February 2019 Aetherpal Remote support capabilities for the Workspace ONE platform 108 May 15 2019 BitRock Cross platform installer creation tool 109 110 July 2019 Avi Networks Cloud application services including Load Balancer WAF and Service Mesh 111 July 18 2019 Bitfusion computing artificial intelligence and machine learning 112 August 20 2019 Intrinsic application and serverless security 113 October 8 2019 Carbon Black Cloud native endpoint security software that is designed to detect malicious behavior and to help prevent malicious files from attacking an organization 114 December 30 2019 Pivotal Software Cloud native platform provider of digital transformation technology and services 115 July 31 2020 Lastline Cyber security and breach detection platform provider 116 September 29 2020 SaltStack Automation and configuration management software 117 118 Litigation Edit In March 2015 the Software Freedom Conservancy announced it was funding litigation by Christoph Hellwig in Hamburg Germany against VMware for alleged violation of his copyrights in its ESXi product 119 Hellwig s core claim is that ESXi is a derivative work of the GPLv2 licensed Linux kernel 2 4 and therefore VMware is not in compliance with GPLv2 because it does not publish the source code to ESXi 120 VMware publicly stated that ESXi is not a derivative of the Linux kernel 121 denying Hellwig s core claim VMware said it offered a way to use Linux device drivers with ESXi and that code does use some Linux GPLv2 licensed code and so it had published the source meeting GPLv2 requirements 122 The lawsuit was dismissed by the court in July 2016 123 and Hellwig announced he would file an appeal 124 The appeal was decided February 2019 and again dismissed by German court on the basis of not meeting procedural requirements for the burden of proof of the plaintiff 125 126 Current products EditVMware s most notable products are its hypervisors VMware became well known for its first type 2 hypervisor known as GSX This product has since evolved into two hypervisor product lines VMware s type 1 hypervisors running directly on hardware and their hosted type 2 hypervisors VMware software provides a completely virtualized set of hardware to the guest operating system 127 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 Alternatively 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 128 or with vMotion Storage separate storage can be used too Each of these transitions is completely transparent to any users on the virtual machine at the time it is being migrated VMware s products predate the virtualization extensions to the x86 instruction set and do not require virtualization enabled processors On newer processors the hypervisor is now designed to take advantage of the extensions However unlike many other hypervisors VMware still supports older processors In such cases it uses 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 use binary translation BT to re write the code dynamically 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 129 Desktop software Edit VMware Workstation introduced in 1999 was the first product launched by VMware This software suite allows users to run multiple instances of x86 or x86 64 compatible operating systems on a single physical personal computer The current version 17 0 was released in November 17 2022 VMware Fusion provides similar functionality for users of the Intel Mac platform along with full compatibility with virtual machines created by other VMware products VMware Workstation Player is freeware for non commercial use without requiring a license and available for commercial use with permission It is similar to VMware Workstation with reduced functionality such as UEFI Secure Boot Support 130 Server software Edit VMware ESXi 131 an enterprise software product can deliver greater performance than the freeware VMware Server due to lower system computational overhead VMware ESXi as a bare metal product runs directly on the server hardware allowing virtual servers to also use hardware more or less directly In addition VMware ESXi integrates into VMware vCenter which offers extra services Cloud management software Edit VMware vRealize Suite a cloud management platform purpose built for a hybrid cloud VMware Go is a web based service to guide users of any expertise level through the installation and configuration of VMware vSphere Hypervisor 132 VMware Cloud Foundation Cloud Foundation provides an easy way to deploy and operate a private cloud on an integrated SDDC system VMware Horizon View is a virtual desktop infrastructure VDI product vSphere and vSAN activates add on hybrid cloud services for business critical applications running on premises including disaster recovery and ransomware protection 133 Application management Edit The VMware Workspace Portal was a self service app store for workspace management 134 Storage and availability Edit VMware s storage and availability products are composed of two primary offerings VMware vSAN previously called VMware Virtual SAN is software defined storage that is embedded in VMware s ESXi hypervisor 135 136 The vSphere and vSAN software runs on industry standard x86 servers to form a hyper converged infrastructure or HCI However network operators need to have servers from HCL Hardware Compatibility List to put one into production 137 The first release version 5 5 was released in March 2014 138 139 The 6th generation version 6 6 was released in April 2017 140 141 New features available in VMware vSAN 6 6 include native data at rest encryption local protection for stretched clusters analytics and optimized solid state drive performance 142 The VMWare 6 7 version was released in April 2018 Users now have improved monitoring tools and new workflows it is closer to feature parity The vCenter Server Appliance architecture is moving around to an easy deployment method VMware Site Recovery Manager SRM automates the failover and failback of virtual machines to and from a secondary site using policy based management 143 144 Networking and security products Edit VMware NSX is VMware s network virtualization product marketed using the term software defined data center SDDC 145 146 The technology included some acquired from the 2012 purchase of Nicira 77 78 Software Defined Networking SDN allows the same policies that govern Identity and Access Management IAM to dictate levels of access to applications and data through a totally converged infrastructure not possible with legacy network and system access methods Other products Edit Workspace ONE allows mobile users to access apps and data 147 The VIX Virtual Infrastructure eXtension 148 API allows automated or scripted management of a computer virtualized using either VMware s vSphere Workstation Player or Fusion products VIX provides bindings for the programming languages C Perl Visual Basic VBScript and C 149 150 Herald is a communications protocol from VMware for more reliable Bluetooth communication and range finding for mobile devices 151 Herald code is available under an open source license and was implemented in the Australian Government s 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