ESET vs VMware

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ESET
Based on 127 reviews.
VMware
Based on 2246 reviews.
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Overview
ESET is an IT security company headquartered in Bratislava, Slovakia that was founded in 1992 by the merger of two private companies. ESET offers anti-virus and firewall products such as ESET NOD32 and competes in the antivirus industry. The company was founded in 1992 when Miroslav Trnka and Peter Pako, authors of antivirus software NOD, partnered up with Rudolf Hrub. They adopted the name of the Egyptian goddess of health, marriage and love as the company name. In 1998 NOD received the VB100 award of Virus Bulletin, which helped the company establish subsidiaries in the USA, Argentina and Singapore, and development facilities in Poland and Czech Republic.
VMware, Inc. is a US software company that provides cloud and virtualization software and services, VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, while its enterprise software hypervisors for servers, VMware ESX and VMware ESXi, are bare-metal hypervisors that run directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system. In 1998, VMware was founded by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion. Greene and Rosenblum, who are married, first met while at the University of California, Berkeley.
Sample Customers
ESET Endpoint Protection Platform
ERSTE Group Bank, Miller Solutions, Wesleyan University, The Hospital Center of Luxembourg, Deer Valley USD, SPAR, Industrial Federal Credit Union, Honda, City Hall of Palmela, Hays CISD, Lester B Pearson School Board
ESET Inspect
Mitsubishi Motors, Allianz Suisse, Cannon, T-Mobile
ESET EDR/XDR
Mitsubishi Motors, Canon
Lastline Defender
CKE Restaurants Inc., WatchGuard, S&P 400 Financial Services Leader, Hewlett Packard, Gwinnett County Public Schools, Aerospace Innovator, Global Media Conglomerate, Cellopoint
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint
Netflix, Progress Residential, Indeed, Hologic, Gentle Giant, Samsung Research America
VMware Carbon Black Cloud
ALLETE belk
Carbon Black Managed Detection and Response
Coincheck, Mednax, Charles River, Chick-fil-A, Netflix, Domino's Pizza
VMware XDR
BN Vital, IndusInd Bank
Popular Solutions
Top Industries
Comms Service Provider
20%
Computer Software Company
17%
Construction Company
5%
Retailer
5%
Educational Organization
13%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
11%
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