VMware

VMware LLC
	Entrance to campus headquarters, Palo Alto, California
Company type	Subsidiary
Traded as	NYSE: VMW (2007–2023)
Industry	Cloud computing; Virtualization; Computer software;
Founded	February 10, 1998; Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Founders	Mendel Rosenblum; Diane Greene; Scott Devine; Ellen Wang; Edouard Bugnion;
Fate	Acquired by Broadcom
Headquarters	Stanford Research Park; Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Key people	Michael Dell (chairman); Raghu Raghuram (CEO);
Products	VMware vSphere; VMware ESXi; VMware Fusion; VMware Horizon; VMware Player; VMware ThinApp; VMware Infrastructure;
Services	Virtualization software, SaaS, Cloud
Revenue	US$13.4 billion (2023)
Operating income	US$2.02 billion (2023)
Net income	US$1.31 billion (2023)
Total assets	US$31.2 billion (2023)
Total equity	US$1.53 billion (2023)
Number of employees	38,300 (2023)
Parent	Broadcom
ASN	53766;
Website	vmware.com
	Footnotes / references; Financials as of February 3, 2023

VMware LLC is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.^[2] VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture.^[3]

VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS. VMware ESXi, its enterprise software hypervisor, is an operating system^[4] that runs on server hardware.^[5]

On November 22, 2023 Broadcom Inc. acquired VMware in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at US$69 billion,^[6] with the End-User Computing (UEC) Division of VMware then sold on to KKR.

^ "VMWare, Inc. Annual Report (Form 10-K)". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. March 28, 2023. Retrieved March 28, 2023.
^ "Gartner Says Worldwide Server Virtualization Market Is Reaching Its Peak". Gartner. May 12, 2016. Archived from the original on May 16, 2016.
^ Bugnion, Edouard; Devine, Scott; Rosenblum, Mendel; Sugerman, Jeremy; Wang, Edward Y. (1 November 2012). "Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture with the Original VMware Workstation". ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. 30 (4): 12:1–12:51. doi:10.1145/2382553.2382554. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
^ Awati, Rahul. "What is VMkernel and how does it work?". TechTarget. SearchVMware. Archived from the original on 2022-09-24. Retrieved 2022-09-24.
^ "vSphere Hypervisor". VMware. Archived from the original on 2018-12-03. Retrieved 2018-12-08.
^ Cite error: The named reference bbc-broadcom was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[10K-1] "VMWare, Inc. Annual Report (Form 10-K)". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. March 28, 2023. Retrieved March 28, 2023.

[2] "Gartner Says Worldwide Server Virtualization Market Is Reaching Its Peak". Gartner. May 12, 2016. Archived from the original on May 16, 2016.

[3] Bugnion, Edouard; Devine, Scott; Rosenblum, Mendel; Sugerman, Jeremy; Wang, Edward Y. (1 November 2012). "Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture with the Original VMware Workstation". ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. 30 (4): 12:1–12:51. doi:10.1145/2382553.2382554. Retrieved 13 February 2024.

[4] Awati, Rahul. "What is VMkernel and how does it work?". TechTarget. SearchVMware. Archived from the original on 2022-09-24. Retrieved 2022-09-24.

[ESXArch-5] "vSphere Hypervisor". VMware. Archived from the original on 2018-12-03. Retrieved 2018-12-08.

[bbc-broadcom-6] Cite error: The named reference bbc-broadcom was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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