Systems research and development at VMware

Abstract

Over the last twelve years, VMware has grown from a small startup with an interesting idea to an 8000+ person company that is changing the landscape of the datacenter and how IT happens in the enterprise. The VMware story has been one of intense technological innovation delivered consistently as a series of products and releases. We will briefly look at the history of innovation at VMware and how we have balanced research, advanced development and product delivery to set the context for the papers in this issue.