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4 unusual facts about VMware


Acharya Institute of Technology

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VMware

VSAN VMware's Virtual SAN technology, utilising local storage inside a host ESXi server to build a virtual SAN

In August 2007, EMC released 15% of the company's shares in VMware in an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange.

The company was launched officially in February 1999 at the DEMO Conference organized by Chris Shipley.


Diane Greene

In 1998, Greene, Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion founded VMware.

Fieldglass

As of Q1 2013, Fieldglass' client base includes approximately 200 customers, including AIG, American Airlines, BMC Software, CVS Caremark, GlaxoSmithKline, HMS, HP, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, Monsanto, Nokia Siemens Networks, Panasonic, Reed Elsevier, Rio Tinto, Salesforce, Siemens, TELUS, United Airlines, Verizon and VMware.

InMage

It also supports VMware, XenServer, Hyper-V, Solaris Zones and a few other server virtualization platforms.

NetVault Backup

An enterprise solution, it supports many server, application platforms and protocols such as UNIX, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, NDMP, Oracle ACSLS, IBM DAS/ACI, Microsoft Exchange Server, DB2, Informix, MySQL, Lotus Domino, and Teradata.

Pat Gelsinger

Prior to becoming CEO of VMware he was President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products at EMC.

Pure Storage

In addition to venture funding, private investors included Diane Greene, a founder and former CEO of VMware and Frank Slootman, former CEO of Data Domain.

The Green Grid

By February 26, 2007, APC by Schneider Electric, Rackable Systems, SprayCool (later part of Parker Hannifin), and VMware had joined the effort, and a meeting in April 2007 was announced.


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