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Each physical server—whether running Windows NT, Linux, or Novell NetWare—sat idling at 5% to 15% capacity. To run ten different applications, you needed ten different machines, each consuming power, cooling, and floor space. The industry’s solution was simply “buy more hardware.” Rosenblum and his colleagues, including Scott Devine, Edward Wang, and Edouard Bugnion, asked a different question: What if one physical machine could run many operating systems at once, safely and efficiently?
August 2007 – VMware’s IPO (NYSE: VMW) saw shares nearly double on the first day, valuing the company at ~$19 billion. The virtualization revolution had gone mainstream. Part III: The Cloud Shift & Paul Maritz Era (2008–2012) In 2008, Diane Greene was ousted as CEO (a decision many later regretted). EMC installed Paul Maritz, a former Microsoft veteran. At the same time, a new threat emerged: public cloud . Amazon Web Services (AWS) was growing fast. Why buy servers and hypervisors when you could rent API-accessible VMs by the hour? vmware inc. - display - 8.17.2.14
But the execution was messy. Tanzu was complex, and customers complained of “confusing licensing.” Meanwhile, AWS launched (a joint engineering effort) – VMware’s olive branch to the public cloud, allowing customers to run their familiar vSphere environment on bare-metal EC2 hosts. Each physical server—whether running Windows NT, Linux, or
8.17.2.14 – VMotion: Because hardware should never hold software hostage. End of the complete story of VMware Inc. August 2007 – VMware’s IPO (NYSE: VMW) saw
August 17, 2016 – On the 14th anniversary of the first VMotion, Dell’s merger closes. Pat Gelsinger stands in front of employees: “Our north star hasn’t changed. We will run any app, on any cloud, on any device.” But behind the scenes, debt from the merger pressures VMware to deliver ever-higher margins. Part V: Multi-Cloud Pivot & The Kubernetes Gambit (2017–2020) The world had changed. Kubernetes had won the container orchestration war. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud were giants. VMware’s on-premises dominance began to feel like a moat around a shrinking castle.
By 2020, VMware had over 500,000 customers and $11 billion in annual revenue, but growth slowed to single digits. The hypervisor was a commodity. The value lay in management and security. On May 26, 2022, Broadcom Inc. (the chip and infrastructure software giant known for aggressive acquisitions) announced it would acquire VMware for $61 billion in cash and stock. The deal closed in November 2023 after lengthy global regulatory reviews.
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