VMware is company focused on virtualization solutions from the desktop to the data center. VMware products are helping customers to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. The companies that are using VMware virtualization products are more than 100,000. Among them 100% of Fortune 100 and 900+ of Fortune 1000 companies. As of 2007 VMware is one of the fastest-growing public software companies. The company is located in Palo Alto, California, and on the Web at www.vmware.com. VMware solutions are separated in three main categories:

• Virtualization - this is the foundation around which all other VMware solutions are build. Different products are positioned in this category depending on the environment and the needed functionality - VMware ESX server, VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware Server
• Management - solutions in this category provide optimizations to the Virtual Infrastructure, better management and features providing less or zero downtime for the services deployed inside it - VMotion, Storage VMotion, High-Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).
• Automation - in this set of products VMware leverages and adds value to the virtualization and management solutions with features like centralize desktop management (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure), virtual machine cycle management (Lifecycle Manager), easier business continuity planning and testing ( Site Recovery Manager ) and faster software development (Lab Manager).