History of VMware

November 25th, 2011

2011

  • 4th VMworld Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark (6,500 attendees) - Oct. 18th - Oct. 20th
  • Workstation 8.0 released - Sept. 14th
  • Fusion 4.0 released - Sept. 14th
  • VMware View 5.0 released - Sept. 14th
  • VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0 released - Sept. 14th
  • 8th VMworld conference held in Las Vegas, NV (19,000 attendees) - Aug. 29th - Sept. 1st
  • vSphere 5.0 released - Aug. 24th
  • View 4.6 released - Feb. 28th

2010

  • 3rd VMworld Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark (6,000 attendees) - Oct. 11th - Oct. 14th
  • View 4.5 released - Sept. 13th
  • 7th VMworld conference held in San Francisco, CA (17,000 attendees) - Aug. 30th - Sept. 2nd
  • vSphere 4.1 released - July 13th
  • Workstation 7.1 released - May 26th
  • Fusion 3.1 released - May 26th

2009

  • View 4.0 released - Nov. 19th
  • Fusion 3.0 released - Oct. 27th
  • Workstation 7 released - Oct. 27th
  • 6th VMworld conference held in San Francisco, CA (12,500 attendees)
  • vSphere 4.0 Released - May 21st
  • 2nd VMworld Europe held in Cannes, France (4,700 attendees)
  • Converter 4.0 Released

2008

  • 5th VMworld conference held in Las Vegas, NV (14,000 attendees)
  • Fusion 2.0 released
  • Server 2.0 released
  • Workstation 6.5 released
  • ESXi becomes available for free
  • 1st VMworld Europe held in Cannes, France (4,500 attendees)
  • Paul Maritz takes over as CEO from Diane Greene

2007

  • 4th VMworld conference held in San Francisco, CA (10,800 attendees)
  • ESX 3i released - Dec. 20th
  • Fusion 1.0 for Mac released
  • Converter 3.0 released (formerly P2V Assistant)
  • ESX 3.5 & VirtualCenter 2.5 released - Dec. 10th
  • Workstation 6.0 released

2006

  • 3rd VMworld conference (6,700 attendees)
  • VI3 released with ESX 3.0 & VirtualCenter 2.0 - Jun. 15th
  • Server 1.0 released (replaced GSX Server)

2005

  • 2nd VMworld conference (3,500 attendees)
  • Player 1.0 released
  • P2V Assistant 2.0 released
  • Workstation 5.0 &  5.5 released

2004

  • 1st VMworld conference in San Diego, CA (1,400 attendees)
  • ESX 2.5 released
  • GSX Server 3.0 released
  • VMTN technical communities launched - Oct. 27th
  • EMC Acquires VMware

2003

  • VMware VirtualCenter 1.0 with VMotion Released - Nov. 10th

2001

  • ESX 1.0 (Elastic Sky X) & GSX 1.0 (Ground Storm X) released
  • Workstation 3.0 released

2000

  • Workstation 2.0 released

1999

  • Workstation 1.0 released for Windows & Linux

1998

  • VMware founded by Diane Greene, Dr. Mendel Rosenblum and Ed Bugnion
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