VMware are a provider of virtualisation software, and since its inception in 1998 has become the global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure. VMware products and solutions reduce the cost and complexity of delivering enterprise services. The comprehensive line-up of products, addresses customers’ needs for flexibility, speed, resiliency and efficiency. Together, they guarantee appropriate levels of availability, security and scalability to all applications independent of hardware and location.

Virtualisation technology is on the increase, and VMware delivers customer-proven solutions that significantly reduce IT complexity and enable more flexible, agile service delivery – this is demonstrated with more than 190,000 customers and 25,000 partners.

VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, while VMware's enterprise software hypervisors for servers. VMware ESX and ESXi are bare-metal embedded Hypervisors that run directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system.