VMware

VMware is a virtualisation company, and its presence in this index is the result of one acquisition: it bought Carbon Black, the endpoint security firm, in 2019 and sold its products as VMware Carbon Black Cloud, adding NSX for network segmentation on the infrastructure side. VMware itself was acquired by Broadcom in November 2023, and the Carbon Black products moved with it. They are now sold by Broadcom, whose security division also holds Symantec's enterprise business, so what were three separate companies — Symantec, Carbon Black and VMware — are now branches of one owner. Products listed here under the VMware name should be read as historical branding: the technology is still sold, but the vendor on the invoice is Broadcom, and the VMware prefix has been dropped from the Carbon Black product names.

Country

🇺🇸United States

Headquarters

🇺🇸Palo Alto, United States

Year Established

1998

Employees

38,000

Customers

20K organisations (2020)Vendor states: Vendor website

Users

10M devices protected (2020)Vendor states: VMware Announces Intent to Acquire Lastline

Revenue

$13.4B (2022)Source: Wikidata

Website

https://www.vmware.com/

Status

Acquired

Acquired by

Broadcom