VMware, Inc. is a leading global provider of virtualization and cloud-infrastructure software. It was founded in 1998 by a group of computer-science researchers.
Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware now serves thousands of organizations worldwide — from enterprises to governments — helping them manage and modernize their IT infrastructure at scale.
VMware creates virtualization software. Essentially, it allows physical computer hardware — CPU, memory, storage, network — to be abstracted and partitioned into multiple “virtual machines” (VMs). Each VM can run its own operating system and applications independently even though they share the same underlying hardware.
