VMware,Inc.

2008
Submitted to:
Prof.Kunal Mankodi

Submitted by:
Riya Shah 1614074
Synopsis
Their objective is to drive up our system utilization, and the beauty of
VMware virtual infrastructure is that it allows us to do this- without
performance degration.

VMware slashed the time needed to deliver workloads to the

development team, increased the predictability of provisioning tasks,
and decreased IT costs.

VMware , the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure,

delivers customer-proven solutions that significantly reduce IT
complexity and enable more flexible, agile service delivery. VMware
accelerates an organization’s transition to cloud computing, while
preserving existing IT investments and enabling more efficient,
service delivery without compromising control. With more than
190,000customers and 25,000 partners, VMware helps organizations
of all costs, preserve freedom of choice and energize business
through IT while saving energy—financial, human and the Earth’s.

Since its founding in 1998, VMware had been the leading provider of
virtualization software. Now it faced the kind of threat that every
software company dreaded most: Microsoft, the world's largest
software maker, was taking direct aim at its core market. As of June
2008, buyers of Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 operating system
received a free, bundled version of Hyper-V, an advanced
virtualization platform product. Looming over the impending
competition between these two companies was the story of the
"browser wars," in which Microsoft overwhelmed browser maker
Netscape Communications by bundling the Internet Explorer browser
with the Windows operating system.
The case describes virtualization technology, a brief history of
VMware, including descriptions of its acquisition by computer
storage giant EMC, its August 2007 IPO, and Maritz's arrival as CEO, a
summary of its product line, a discussion of the ecosystem in which
the company operates and a survey of key competitors, including not
only Microsoft, but also Citrix Systems and other providers that use
the Xen virtualization platform.