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.
WhereScape is a privately-held international Data Warehousing & Big Data software company with offices in Auckland, New Zealand, Portland, Oregon, USA, Reading, United Kingdom, Pune, India & Singapore. WhereScape operate out of regional headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand; Portland, Oregon, USA; Reading, United Kingdom; and Singapore. WhereScape's products are used in business intelligence projects in commercial environments. Project applications include normal-form enterprise data warehouses, data vaults, data marts and reporting systems.
