About VMware

VMware, Inc. (VMware) engages in the development and application of virtualization technologies with x86 server-based computing, separating application software from the underlying hardware. VMware is focused on becoming the multi-cloud leader. Information technology (‘IT’) driven innovation continues to disrupt markets and industries. The company’s multi-cloud portfolio, spanning application modernization, cloud management, cloud infrastructure, networking, security and anywhere workspaces, forms a flexible, consistent digital foundation on which customers can build, run, manage, connect and protect their mission-critical workloads. Products and Technology Solutions The company’s portfolio supports and addresses its customers’ key priorities, including modernizing their applications, managing multi-cloud environments, accelerating their cloud journey, modernizing the network using commodity hardware, embracing zero-trust security and empowering anywhere workspaces. The company enables digital transformation of customers’ applications, infrastructure and operations for their constantly evolving business and employee needs. Application Modernization VMware Tanzu, a portfolio of products and services for modernizing applications and infrastructure, enables customers to deliver better software to production, continuously. The portfolio enables customers to build, run and manage modern applications on any cloud and simplifies the use of Kubernetes, an open source platform for orchestrating containers, in a multi-cloud environment. The modern or cloud-native applications allow businesses to bring new ideas to market faster and respond sooner to customer demands. Tanzu uses cloud-native patterns to build applications with microservices and application programming interfaces and uses Kubernetes to simplify how these applications are deployed, observed and managed across on-premises, public clouds and edge environments. Tanzu includes technologies acquired as part of the company’s Pivotal, Bitnami, and Heptio acquisitions. Key products within the company’s Application Modernization portfolio include: Tanzu Application Platform—a modular, application-aware platform that provides a rich set of developer tooling and a prepared path to production to build and deploy software quickly and more securely on any compliant public cloud or on-premises Kubernetes cluster. Tanzu Operations Platform—a solution that simplifies operating Kubernetes environments for multi-cluster, multi-Kubernetes and multi-cloud deployment with policy-based management, automation and governance for clusters, service mesh, observability and teams across on-premises, public clouds and edge environments. Tanzu Application Service—a platform as a service that allows enterprises to accelerate cloud-native software development with managed access to native cloud services and portability to run across any cloud. Tanzu Data Suite—a family of data-driven solutions built to store, process and query critical data resources in real-time and at scale in the multi-cloud world. Tanzu Labs—a service that provides guidance and support to help customers modernize existing applications or build new, modern applications with agile development practices. Cloud Management The company’s cloud management products help customers manage multi-cloud environments running a range of workloads, including virtual machines and containers. VMware Aria offerings optimize cloud usage and costs; automate the deployment, management and migration of applications and data; improve cloud secure configurations and compliance; and monitor application and cloud infrastructure. Key products within the company’s VMware Aria portfolio include: VMware Aria—cloud management products, available as a service or as an on-premises offering, that are integrated together, delivering consistent operations from data centers to the cloud and to the edge, including: VMware Aria Automation—a modern infrastructure automation platform enabling customers to accelerate their multi-cloud infrastructure transformations based on Development and IT operations (‘DevOps’), open source and self-service automation. VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds—an intelligent multi-cloud security and compliance monitoring platform that helps organizations reduce risk and protect cloud resources. VMware Aria Cost Powered by CloudHealth—a robust multi-cloud management platform that helps organizations optimize and control spend and improve cross-organizational collaboration. VMware Aria Operations—an artificial intelligence-powered IT operations management platform that enables self-driving operations with unified application-to-infrastructure visibility, capacity and cost management, workload optimization and configuration, and compliance management to better optimize, plan and scale private-, hybrid- and multi-cloud environments. VMware Aria Operations for Applications—an enterprise-grade monitoring and observability platform with out-of-the-box integration with Tanzu that DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering teams use to troubleshoot and optimize the performance of their multi-cloud applications operating at massive, cloud-native scale. VMware Aria Operations for Logs—a log analysis tool that manages data at scale with centralized log management, deep operational visibility and intelligent analytics for troubleshooting and auditing across private-, hybrid- and multi-cloud environments. VMware Aria Operations for Networks—a network monitoring tool that provides end-to-end network visibility to help customers monitor and build an optimized, highly available and more secure network infrastructure across clouds. VMware Aria Suite—a cloud management solution that combines the on-premises VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations and VMware Aria Operations for Logs products into a single cloud management platform offering with a single license. VMware Aria Universal Suite—a management suite that combines SaaS and on-premises VMware Aria products into a single cloud management offering with a single license, providing customers with a consistent hybrid and multi-cloud management experience across the disciplines of cost, performance, secure configuration and automation. vCloud Suite—an enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure and management solution that combines the on-premises VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations and VMware Aria Operations for Logs products with VMware vSphere. Cloud Infrastructure The company’s Cloud Infrastructure solutions include infrastructure products and services that enable customers to run enterprise applications anywhere with a consistent infrastructure and operating model from on-premises data centers to the cloud and to the edge. Key products within the company’s Cloud Infrastructure portfolio include: vSphere— the company’s flagship data center infrastructure offering, utilizes its hypervisor software, which resides between the operating system and system hardware, to provide the fundamental compute layer for customer environments, enabling virtualization. vSphere now supports Data Processing Units (‘DPUs’) along with existing support for Central Processing Unit (‘CPUs’) and Graphics Processing Units (‘GPUs’) to help customers meet the throughput and latency needs of modern distributed workloads. Additionally, the company continues to integrate vSphere and VMware Tanzu solutions to provide a simple way for vSphere customers around the world to get started with Kubernetes and to modernize their workloads running on vSphere. vSAN and VxRail—a holistic data storage and protection option for all applications running on vSphere. These products are applicable to hyperconverged infrastructure as well as traditional infrastructure solutions and enable customers to deploy on a broad range of hardware solutions. The company’s vSAN offering creates simple, shared storage designed for virtual machines. Featuring a next-generation storage platform optimized for modern hardware with hyperconverged infrastructure, the company’s latest vSAN release features breakthrough performance and hyper-efficiency. VxRail is a hyperconverged infrastructure solution consisted of a fully integrated and pre-configured Dell EMC appliance powered by vSAN and vSphere software. VMware Cloud Foundation—a cloud platform that combines the company’s vSphere, vSAN and NSX, or network virtualization, offerings with VMware Aria Cloud Management into an integrated stack that delivers developer-ready infrastructure for public and private clouds. VMware Cloud Foundation extends to multi-cloud through these main routes: VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Cloud on other major hyperscalers, including Azure VMware Solution, Google Cloud VMware Engine, IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and Alibaba Cloud VMware Service and VMware Cloud providers. VMware Cloud on AWS—an integrated hybrid cloud solution that extends on-premises vSphere environments to a VMware Software-Defined Data Center (‘SDDC’) running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (‘Amazon EC2’). Jointly engineered by VMware and Amazon Web Services (‘AWS’), this on-demand service enables IT teams to seamlessly extend, migrate and manage their cloud-based resources with familiar VMware tools, minimizing the difficulty of learning new skills or utilizing new tools. VMware Cloud on AWS integrates VMware’s flagship compute, storage and network virtualization products (vSphere, vSAN and NSX), along with vCenter Server management and optimizes them to run on dedicated, elastic, Amazon EC2 bare-metal infrastructure that is fully integrated with AWS Cloud. This service also provides integrated Kubernetes, disaster recovery, ransomware protection and microsegmentation. VMware, AWS and the AWS partner networks sell VMware Cloud on AWS, which is available in 22 global AWS regions, while VMware and the company’s partner community deliver and support the service. VMware Cloud on other major hyperscalers—includes Azure VMware Solution, an infrastructure-as-a-service private cloud offering built on VMware Cloud Foundation that runs on dedicated bare-metal servers in Azure regions. It is a service sold and supported by Microsoft, backed and cloud verified by VMware. VMware Cloud on other major hyperscalers also includes Google Cloud VMware Engine, an integrated first-party offering that is built, sold and supported directly by Google Cloud and delivers a fully managed VMware Cloud Foundation stack along with VMware HCX for cloud migration in a dedicated environment on Google Cloud. VMware Cloud Providers—a key component of the company’s strategic priority to support multi-cloud, this global ecosystem of more than 4,500 cloud providers in over 130 countries provides VMware-based cloud services. VMware Cloud Provider offerings are directed at traditional hosting partners, regional cloud providers and local and global managed service providers. VMware Cloud Providers give organizations the flexibility of running applications in virtual machines, in containers or both on their own private clouds inside their data center and on public clouds by providing multi-cloud managed services. IBM was the company’s first cloud provider partner to offer VMware Cloud Foundation as-a-service, enabling their customers to leverage the company’s technologies on IBM Cloud in their worldwide cloud data centers. VMware Sovereign Cloud Providers—more than 30 VMware Cloud Providers offer services aligned to the VMware Sovereign Cloud Framework which deliver key sovereign capabilities that enable nations to ensure classified data is protected, compliant, and resident within and subject to the laws of their respective national territory, exempt from foreign jurisdictional control and managed by national citizens with relevant national security clearance. The company also offers VMware Cloud Universal, a flexible purchasing and consumption program that enables customers to purchase and apply credits to the deployment of VMware Cloud infrastructure services. Additionally, for customers who want the benefit of cloud offerings but have on-premises infrastructure and workloads, the company’s offerings, such as vSphere+, vSAN+ and VMware Cloud Foundation+ provide a flexible subscription model combined with centralized cloud-based infrastructure management, integrated Kubernetes and access to hybrid cloud services. Networking The company offers a complete portfolio of Layer 2-7 multi-cloud network virtualization and security solutions that deliver innovative software-based capabilities for switching, routing, firewalling, intrusion prevention and intrusion detection systems, network detection and response, load balancing, application security, service mesh and SD-WAN for enterprise and Telco environments. These networking solutions enable customers to connect and protect all workloads running on virtual machines, in containers, on bare metal and across data centers, multi-cloud environments and the distributed edge. Adoption of VMware networking solutions is driven by customers who are replacing legacy, hardware-centric network and security infrastructure, such as physical firewalls and load balancers and expensive dedicated wide-area network links. Key products within the company’s Networking portfolio include: VMware NSX— the company’s network virtualization platform that abstracts physical networks to greatly simplify customers’ provisioning and consumption of networking and security resources. NSX can be layered into any environment, integrates with many automation, security and container solutions and is a foundational part of the company’s key offerings, such as VMware Cloud Foundation. NSX Distributed and Gateway Firewalls—a software-defined Layer 7 firewall that is purpose-built to help secure multi-cloud traffic across virtualized workloads. NSX Gateway Firewall is complementary to NSX Distributed Firewall and helps protect physical workloads and create secure zones. Both provide stateful firewalling with intrusion detection and prevention, sandboxing, network traffic analysis and network detection and response to provide complete visibility into applications and workload flows with policy automation that are linked to workload lifecycles. NSX Network Detection and Response—an artificial intelligence-based threat correlation and forensics engine, delivered as either standalone or integrated tightly within NSX, that helps network security and security operations teams efficiently detect malicious activity and block lateral movement of sophisticated threats. NSX Advanced Load Balancer—a platform that provides consistent, multi-cloud load balancing, web application firewall, bot management and insights across on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Tanzu Service Mesh—an enterprise-class service mesh solution that provides end-to-end operational visibility, control and security for distributed cloud-native applications, across end-users, applications and data, on any platform or cloud. HCX—an application mobility platform that simplifies application migration, workload rebalancing and business continuity across data centers and clouds. The company’s offerings also include VMware SASE, a cloud-native platform that converges cloud networking and cloud security into a holistic solution. Regardless of the location of users, VMware SASE provides optimized and more secure access for applications at the edge, cloud, or traditional data center, managed via a single user interface. Organizations use VMware SASE to provide their users with more reliable, optimal and secure access to any application in on-premises, public cloud and edge environments. The VMware SASE platform includes VMware SD-WAN, which delivers high-performance, reliable and more secure access to cloud services, private data centers and SaaS-based enterprise applications for remote workers, via a soft client, and branch locations via physical and virtual devices; VMware Secure Access, a cloud-hosted solution that secures and optimizes corporate network and application access for remote and mobile users based on a Zero Trust Network Access framework; VMware Cloud Web Security, a cloud-hosted service that protects users and infrastructure accessing SaaS and Internet applications from evolving threats, offers visibility into and control over internet and SaaS application usage and enables compliance with administered security access rights; and Edge Network Intelligence, which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to simplify troubleshooting while also providing unique insights into the user experience. These services can be sold individually or together for the full VMware SASE solution. Security The company’s architecture uniquely helps enable customers to see processes running in an endpoint, packets crossing the network, access points and the inner workings of both traditional and modern applications to identify and stop threats. VMware Carbon Black Cloud, a SaaS-delivered cloud native endpoint, workload and container protection platform, is at the center of the VMware security portfolio. Key products within the company’s Security portfolio include: Carbon Black Endpoint—an endpoint security solution that consolidates multiple endpoint security capabilities using one lightweight agent and cloud console to ease analysis of complex attacks, simplify the automation of detection and response workflows and identify attackers’ changing behavior patterns to better detect, respond to and prevent emerging and continuing attacks. This endpoint protection platform includes next-generation antivirus, endpoint detection and response, managed detection and response, audit and remediation, and threat hunting and containment. Carbon Black Workload—a cloud workload protection solution that delivers advanced protection purpose-built for better securing modern workloads, reducing the attack surface and strengthening security postures. The solution combines prioritized vulnerability reporting and foundational workload hardening with prevention, detection and response capabilities to protect workloads running in virtualized private and hybrid cloud environments. VMware Carbon Black Workload is also tightly integrated with vSphere to provide built-in security that alleviates installation and management overhead and consolidates the collection or telemetry for multiple workload security use cases. Carbon Black Container—an enterprise-grade container security solution that enables container security to reduce risk, enhance visibility, maintain compliance and simplify security for Kubernetes environments, from development to production. VMware Carbon Black Container empowers cross-functional teams to secure the complete lifecycle of Kubernetes applications, detect and fix vulnerabilities and misconfigurations before production deployment, meet compliance standards and achieve simple, secure multi-cloud and hybrid cloud Kubernetes environments at scale. Anywhere Workspace VMware Anywhere Workspace is designed to deliver secure and seamless experiences for distributed workforces while reducing costs and operational overhead for organizations. Anywhere Workspace incorporates the company’s Unified Endpoint Management (‘UEM’), Virtual Desktops and Applications, Workspace Security, and Digital Employee Experience technologies into a single, seamless, and more secure experience for IT and employees. The Anywhere Workspace platform consists of: Workspace ONE UEM—a solution built to manage and help secure mobile devices, laptops and other devices across all major operating systems from a single management console and includes a suite of productivity applications that enable customers to more effectively manage and secure both corporate and personal devices. Workspace ONE Access—a cloud-first service that enables IT to provide employees with access to SaaS, web, and native mobile applications with multi-factor authentication, conditional access, and single sign-on. Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub—a digital workspace application available for any employee on any device that enables secure access to corporate applications and resources ‘from hire to retire,’ including single-sign-on access to any application from a unified catalog, while enabling IT to send informational and actionable notifications, provide customizable self-service actions and share VMware Knowledge Base articles and intranet access. Horizon—a platform that provides a streamlined approach to delivering, protecting and managing virtual desktops and applications from one digital workspace, while containing costs and allowing end users to work anytime, anywhere and across any device. Workspace ONE Mobile Threat Defense—a mobile endpoint protection solution integrated into Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub designed to protect devices from phishing as well as a wide range of application, device and rogue network originated threats, powered by Lookout, a leader in advanced mobile security. Digital Employee Experience Management—a cloud-first service empowering IT to measure, analyze and remediate end-user experience by providing an experience score (combining device, application user telemetry and employee sentiment surveys), machine-learning driven root cause analysis and pre-built integrations for automated remediation and collaboration. The company’s expansive portfolio enables customers to deliver virtual desktops and applications to users in many ways, from customer-managed solutions that run on any on-premises or VMware Cloud certified environments, including VMware Cloud on AWS, Google Cloud VMware Engine, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, Azure VMware Solution and more, to a fully managed Desktop-as-a-Service solution delivered natively from Microsoft Azure (‘Azure’). Technology Alliances The company has more than 830 technology partners with whom it brings offerings to the marketplace and over 4,500 active cloud, hyperscaler and managed service provider partners. The company classifies its partners as follows: Strategic Technology Vendors (‘STVs’)— The company has established relationships with large technology partners, including AMD, Apple, Cisco, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HPE, IBM, Intel, Lenovo, NVIDIA and Samsung. These partnerships allow the company to collaborate on joint product development and ensure interoperability and readiness of joint solution through certification, allowing VMware to provide its customers with options for technology solutions in the areas of multi-cloud and modern application. Independent Software Vendors (‘ISVs’)— The company partners with leading systems management, infrastructure software and application software vendors, including healthcare, telecom, finance and retail leaders, to deliver value-added solutions that interoperate with the company’s products. VMware Cloud Providers— The company has established partnerships with more than 4,500 active cloud, hyperscaler and managed service providers, including Alibaba, AUCloud, Equinix, Google, IBM, Lumen, Microsoft, NTT, NxtGen, Oracle, OVH, Rackspace, Telefonica, Tietoevry and Vodafone, that support the company’s multi-cloud strategy. These partners leverage the company’s cloud technologies to host and deliver enterprise-class cloud services, including managed services for enterprises to augment or extend their data centers to external clouds, while preserving security, compliance and quality of service. In addition to the company’s base of active partnerships with cloud providers, the company has a strategic alliance with AWS to build and deliver an integrated hybrid offering, VMware Cloud on AWS, that enables customers to run applications across vSphere-based private, public and multi-cloud environments. The company’s Technology Alliance Partner (‘TAP’) program facilitates collaborative solution creation and coordinated go-to-market activities for the company’s ecosystem of more than 830 technology partners. Created exclusively for STV and ISV partners, the TAP program gives technology partners the ability to test, integrate and package application software, infrastructure and hardware products with the company’s products and services offerings—on premises or in the cloud. The company’s ISVs and other alliance partners, developers and additional VMware community members continue to distribute software applications as virtual appliances. The company invest significant capital in testing and certifications of infrastructure to rigorously ensure the company’s software is compatible with major hardware and software products. Sales and Marketing The company’s go-to-market efforts include a direct sales force, including a specialized sales force for its key growth offerings, and the company’s channel and cloud partners. The company has well-established, ongoing business relationships with its distributors. The company’s distributors purchase software licenses and software support from the company for resale to end-user customers via resellers. These resellers are part of VMware Partner Connect, a program, which offers resellers pricing incentives, rebates, sales and product enablement through the VMware Partner Connect web portal and access to the worldwide network of VMware distributors. In addition, the company’s channel partner network includes certain systems integrators and resellers trained and certified to deliver consulting services and solutions leveraging the company’s products. The company’s channel network also includes partners that host its products and deliver them as-a-service to customers. End users can purchase the full breadth of the company’s subscription, SaaS, license and services portfolio through discrete purchases or through enterprise agreements (‘EAs’), both of which provide access to a range of flexible purchasing programs. EAs are sold to the company’s direct customers and through channel partners and can include the company’s license, multi-year maintenance and support, subscription and SaaS offerings. EAs enable the company to build long-term relationships with its customers as they commit to the company’s virtual infrastructure solutions. The company’s marketing efforts focus on communicating the benefits of its solutions and educating the company’s customers and users, distributors, resellers, system vendors, systems integrators, the media and analysts about the advantages of the company’s innovative offerings. The company’s annual user and partner conference, VMware Explore, is a global event. The company also offers management presentations, seminars and webinars on the company’s solutions and services. The company also has strategic partnerships with AWS, Google, IBM and Microsoft to jointly provide the expertise, solutions and go-to-market capabilities to help the company’s customers efficiently and more securely extend their proven software-defined solutions into public clouds, utilizing the tools and processes with which the company’s customers are already familiar. The company’s business and the sales of its products and services are subject to seasonality. For example, the company’s fourth quarter (year ended February 2023) sales are affected by a number of seasonal factors, including year-end spending trends, that impact the timing of renewals of the company’s EAs and support and maintenance contracts. Customers The company’s product offerings allow customers to manage IT resources across private clouds and complex multi-cloud, multi-device environments. Customer deployments range in size from a single virtualized server for small businesses to thousands of virtual machines and managed devices for the company’s largest enterprise customers. During the year ended February 3, 2023 (fiscal 2023), revenue from Dell, including purchases of products and services directly from the company, as well as through its channel partners, accounted for 38% of the company’s consolidated revenue. These purchases included Dell selling joint solutions as an original equipment manufacturer (‘OEM’), which accounted for 14% of total revenue from Dell, or 5% of the company’s consolidated revenue. The remaining revenue from Dell consisted of Dell acting as a distributor to other non-Dell resellers, reselling products and services as a reseller or purchasing products and services for its own internal use. On certain transactions, Dell Financial Services (‘DFS’) also provided financing to the company’s end users at the company’s end users’ discretion. Competition Providers of Application Modernization and Open Source Developer Platform Services: Open source technologies for containerization and cloud platforms, such as Xen, KVM, Docker, rkt, OpenShift, Mesos, Kubernetes and OpenStack, and other open source software-based products, solutions and services may reduce the demand for the company’s solutions, put pricing pressure on its offerings and enable competing vendors to leverage open source technologies to compete directly with the company. Providers of Enterprise Security Offerings: Competitors in the end point security space range from established solution providers, such as Microsoft and Trend Micro to next-generation endpoint security providers, such as CrowdStrike and SentinelOne. Additionally, new trends, such as Extended Threat Detection (‘XDR’), Secure Access Service Edge (‘SASE’) and Zero Trust Network Access, represent the coalescence of formerly distinct markets, such as identity management, secure web gateway, SD-WAN, network firewall and cloud access security brokers. These new trends may bring existing partners, such as Fortinet, Zscaler and Okta into a more competitive position with the company’s Carbon Black, VeloCloud and other distributed network security offerings. Other Industry Alliances Many of the company’s competitors have entered into or extended partnerships or other strategic relationships to offer more comprehensive virtualization and cloud computing solutions than they individually had offered. The company expect these trends to continue as companies attempt to strengthen or maintain their positions in the evolving virtualization infrastructure and enterprise IT solutions industry. For example, Google Cloud is a member of the CrowdXDR Alliance, a CrowdStrike initiative competitive with VMware security offerings that also includes other VMware partners, such as Zscaler. Many public cloud infrastructure providers have also entered into strategic partnerships with mobile telecommunications network providers (such as AWS with Verizon and Microsoft Azure with AT&T) to jointly embed distributed cloud infrastructure and management tools into 5G mobile networks as applications are increasingly deployed closer to end users at the ‘edge.’ In 2019, one of the company’s important partners and customers, IBM, acquired Red Hat, one of the company’s competitors in the cloud native applications space. In 2020, Nvidia acquired Mellanox, a SmartNIC provider, and, similarly, in 2022, AMD acquired Xilinx, an field-programmable gate array (‘FPGA’) provider, and Pensando, a DPU provider, giving Nvidia and AMD the potential to offer offloaded, FAC-embedded competitive virtualization, storage, security and networking software to enterprise customers for their on-premises environments. In 2022, Intel formed a partnership with Google Cloud to develop public cloud instances using Intel IPUs, and each of Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud announced agreements with Ampere, an Arm-based CPU provider. The company and Dell compete across the IT infrastructure industry providing products and services that overlap in various areas, including software-based storage, management, hyperconverged infrastructure and cloud computing. Dell competes with the company in these areas. Intellectual Property As of February 3, 2023, over 5,800 patents of varying duration issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had been granted or assigned to the company. The company also has been granted or assigned patents from other countries. These patents cover various aspects of the company’s server virtualization and other technologies. The company also has numerous pending U.S. provisional and non-provisional patent applications, and numerous pending international patent applications, that are specific to other aspects of the company’s virtualization and other technologies. The company has federal trademark registrations in the U.S. for ‘VMWARE,’ ‘VSPHERE,’ ‘VCLOUD,’ ‘VMOTION,’ ‘HORIZON,’ ‘AIRWATCH,’ ‘VREALIZE,’ ‘WORKSPACE ONE,’ ‘ESX,’ ‘VMWARE NSX,’ ‘TANZU,’ ‘VMWARE EXPLORE,’ ‘CARBON BLACK,’ and ‘PIVOTAL’ and numerous other trademarks. The company also has trademarks registered in several foreign countries. History VMware, Inc. was founded in 1998. The company was incorporated in Delaware in 1998.