I'm Feeling Lucky

19 Facts About VMware

1.

VMware, Inc is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

FactSnippet No. 1,092,745
2.

VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture.

FactSnippet No. 1,092,746
3.

VMware ESXi, its enterprise software hypervisor, is an operating system that runs on server hardware.

FactSnippet No. 1,092,747
4.

In 1998, VMware was founded by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Ellen Wang and Edouard Bugnion.

FactSnippet No. 1,092,748
5.

VMware was launched officially early in the second year, in February 1999, at the DEMO Conference organized by Chris Shipley.

FactSnippet No. 1,092,749

Related searches

California Palo Alto Diane Greene General Electric Las Vegas San Francisco Virginia Dallas Texas Santa OVH Formula One McLaren Germany Hamburg Linux kernel
6.

In 2003, VMware launched VMware Virtual Center, vMotion, and Virtual SMP technology.

FactSnippet No. 1,092,750
7.

In March 2013, VMware announced the corporate spin-off of Pivotal Software, with General Electric making an investment in the company.

FactSnippet No. 1,092,751
8.

In May 2013, VMware launched its own IaaS service, vCloud Hybrid Service, at its new Palo Alto headquarters, announcing an early access program in a Las Vegas data center.

FactSnippet No. 1,092,752
9.

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.

FactSnippet No. 1,092,753
10.

In January 2016, in anticipation of Dell's acquisition of EMC, VMware announced a restructuring to reduce about 800 positions, and some executives resigned.

FactSnippet No. 1,092,754
11.

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

FactSnippet No. 1,092,755
12.

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

FactSnippet No. 1,092,756
13.

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.

FactSnippet No. 1,092,757
14.

VMware publicly stated that ESXi is not a derivative of the Linux kernel, denying Hellwig'score claim.

FactSnippet No. 1,092,758
15.

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.

FactSnippet No. 1,092,759
16.

VMware became well known for its first type 2 hypervisor known as GSX.

FactSnippet No. 1,092,760
17.

VMware software provides a completely virtualized set of hardware to the guest operating system.

FactSnippet No. 1,092,761
18.

VMware's products predate the virtualization extensions to the x86 instruction set, and do not require virtualization-enabled processors.

FactSnippet No. 1,092,762
19.

VMware Workspace Portal was a self-service app store for workspace management.

FactSnippet No. 1,092,763