VMware
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 Entrance to campus headquarters, Palo Alto, California | |
| Formerly | VMware, Inc. (1998–2023) |
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| Type | Subsidiary |
| NYSE: VMW (2007–2023) | |
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| Founded | February 10, 1998 Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
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| Headquarters | Stanford Research Park Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
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| Revenue |  US$13.4 billion (2023) |
 US$2.0 billion (2023) | |
| US$1.3 billion (2023) | |
| Total assets | US$31.2 billion (2023) |
| Total equity | US$1.5 billion (2023) |
Number of employees | 38,300 (2023) |
| Parent | Broadcom |
| Website | vmware.com |
| Footnotes Financials as of February 3, 2023 | |
VMware LLC is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, U.S. On November 22, 2023, Broadcom acquired VMware in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $69 billion, with the End-User Computing division of VMware then sold to KKR and rebranded to Omnissa. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture.
VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS. VMware ESXi, its enterprise software hypervisor, is an operating system that runs on server hardware.