VMware
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VMware LLC is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, U.S. On November 22, 2023, Broadcom acquired VMware in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $69 billion, with the End-User Computing division of VMware then sold to KKR and rebranded to Omnissa. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture.
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VMware LLC is an active operating company incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Palo Alto, United States. Established in 1998, the organization operates within the prepackaged software services industry. It is classified as both a company and a funder.
The firm employs 34,000 people. Its financial records indicate total assets of 21,206,000,000, total revenue of 13,350,000,000, operating income of 2,388,000,000, and a net profit of 6,412,000,000.
Synthesized by Vinony from 36 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, GLEIF, SEC EDGAR, ROR, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Company.name
- VMware LLC
- Company.logo
- Vmware-by-broadcom.svgclass=skin-invert
- Company.image
- VMware HQ campus 3401 Hillview entrance.JPG
- Company.image_caption
- Entrance to campus headquarters, Palo Alto, California
- Company.former_names
- VMware, Inc. (1998–2023)
- Company.type
- Subsidiary
- Company.traded_as
- (2007–2023)
- Company.founded
- Palo Alto, California, U.S.
- Company.hq_location
- Stanford Research ParkPalo Alto, California, U.S.
- Company.parent
- Broadcom
- Company.num_employees
- 38,300 (2023)
- Company.footnotes
- Financials
- Network service provider.child
- yes
- Network service provider.asn
- 53766
via Wikipedia infobox
Company
- Industry
- Services-Prepackaged Software
- State of incorporation
- DE
- Entity type
- operating
- Fiscal year end
- Feb 2
- Latest filing
- 15-12G · 2023-12-04
- Jurisdiction
- US-DE
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, US
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Founded
- 1998
- Location
- Palo Alto, United States
- Also known as
- VMware, VMware, Inc.
- Status
- Active
ISNI 0000 0004 1794 1990
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Encyclopedic overview
24 sectionsContents
- History
- Early history
- Acquisition by EMC
- Acquisition by Dell
- Spinoff from Dell
- Acquisition by Broadcom<!--'Omnissa' redirects here-->
- Acquisitions
- Litigation
- Current products
- Desktop software
- Server software
- Cloud management software
- Application management
- Storage and availability
- Networking and security products
- Other products
- Former products
- Desktop software
- Cloud management software
- Other products
- Incidents
- See also
- References
- External links
VMware LLC is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, U.S. On November 22, 2023, Broadcom acquired VMware in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $69 billion, with the End-User Computing division of VMware then sold to KKR and rebranded to Omnissa. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture.
VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS. VMware ESXi, its enterprise software hypervisor, is an operating system that runs on server hardware.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “VMware” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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