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VMware competitors & alternatives
The 12 closest competitors and alternatives to VMware among cloud infrastructure companies — ranked by similarity to what VMware actually does, not by market-cap band.
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About VMware
VMware LLC is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, U.S. On November 22, 2023, Broadcom acquired VMware in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $69 billion, with the End-User Computing division of VMware then sold to KKR and rebranded to Omnissa. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture.
VMware at a glance
VMware is a cloud infrastructure company headquartered in United States, founded in 1998. Xcout tracks 1 named person at VMware, including Michael Dell (Investor). Xcout recorded 2 job postings from VMware in the last 90 days.
VMware leadership
- Michael DellInvestor
Hiring at VMware
Xcout recorded 2 job postings from VMware in the last 90 days, from a hiring record Xcout has kept since June 2026.
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Recent VMware news
- Product launchBroadcom Inc. stellt VMware Private AI Cloud vor: Unternehmen können KI kosteneffizient skalieren, sicherer betreiben und schneller innovieren - MarketScreener Schweiz
- Leadership changeMoonPay Adds Former PayPal, NYSE, VMware and Sotheby's Leaders as Crypto Payments Go Mainstream - Blockster
- Leadership changeJoe Ayers Named VP of Broadcom’s VMware Federal Business - GovCon Wire
- Product launchBroadcom Announces VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, Enabling Secure and Cost-Effective Infrastructure for Production AI - Broadcom
Top 12 VMware competitors
Ranked by semantic similarity — how close each company is to VMware by what it does, using Xcout's live company graph. Click any company for its full profile, or its competitor set.
Cloud Computing
Ravello Systems was an Israeli cloud-computing company that developed a nested-virtualization platform for running VMware and other enterprise workloads on public clouds. It served enterprises and cloud service providers seeking to deploy, test, and migrate virtualized applications across cloud environments; Oracle acquired the company in 2016.
Cloud Computing
Velostrata, Inc. is a technology company founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, that provides innovative cloud migration solutions for virtual workloads.
Similar cloud infrastructure company
Stratoscale is an Israeli cloud-infrastructure company that developed software-defined, hyperconverged infrastructure for running private and hybrid clouds on standard data-center hardware. Its platform targeted enterprises and service providers seeking scalable compute, storage, networking, and cloud-native workloads in their own data centers.
Similar cloud infrastructure company
Citrix Systems, Inc. is an American multinational cloud computing and virtualization technology company that provides server, application and desktop virtualization, networking, software as a service (SaaS), and cloud computing technologies. Citrix claims that its products are used by over 400,000 clients worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 100 and 98% of the Fortune 500.
Similar cloud infrastructure company
Cloud Software Group, headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, is a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure software solutions. The company's offerings encompass virtualization, integration, and data management, and it was formed from the merger of Citrix and TIBCO Software.
Cloud Computing
CloudHealth Technologies, now CloudHealth by VMware, is a software company based in Boston, Massachusetts. The company provides cloud computing services related to cost management, governance, automation, security, and performance.
Similar cloud infrastructure company
Wind River provides software platforms, operating systems, and development tools designed for mission-critical intelligent systems, embedded devices, and edge computing. Its products serve industries such as aerospace, automotive, industrial, medical, and telecommunications by ensuring real-time reliability, security, and cloud-to-edge orchestration.
Cloud Computing
Volterra was a U.S. cloud-computing company that provided a distributed cloud platform for deploying and securing applications across edge locations, data centers, and public clouds. Founded by Ankur Singla, it was acquired by F5 in 2021, and its technology became part of F5’s Distributed Cloud Services offering for enterprises and service providers.
Similar cloud infrastructure company
Numecent is a cloud technology provider headquartered in Irvine, California. The company delivers proprietary cloud-packaging and cloud-virtualization solutions, such as Cloudpager and Cloudpaging, enabling applications to run across physical and virtual Windows endpoints.
Cloud Computing
Virtustream is a Dell Technologies business that provides enterprise cloud services, including managed and hosted private cloud infrastructure. It specializes in running mission-critical workloads such as SAP applications for large enterprises and regulated organizations.
Similar cloud infrastructure company
IGEL Technology provides a secure endpoint operating system platform designed for SaaS, DaaS, VDI, and secure browser environments. The company's solutions help enterprises reduce endpoint costs and minimize their attack surface by supporting preventative security and Zero Trust architectures.
Cloud Computing & Infrastructure Software
Platform Systems, Inc. provides an enterprise-grade virtual machine and container management platform designed to help organizations transition away from VMware. Its products, such as Private Cloud Director and migration tools, enable businesses to convert existing infrastructure into a full-featured private cloud supporting virtualization and Kubernetes.
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