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+title: "VMware"
+type: entity
+tags:
+  - VMware
+  - Virtualization
+  - Hybrid-Cloud
+last_updated: 2026-04-25
+---
+
+## VMware
+
+Enterprise virtualization and cloud computing software provider. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is known for its vSphere hypervisor and vCenter management platform.
+
+## Aliases
+- VMware, Inc.
+- VMware Cloud
+
+## Overview
+VMware partnered with AWS to develop **VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC on AWS)**, a jointly engineered cloud service where the VMware hypervisor runs natively on AWS bare metal servers (i3.metal / i3en.metal). This is not a simple deployment of VMware software onto cloud infrastructure — it is a true joint engineering effort between VMware and AWS.
+
+## Key Offerings
+- **vSphere**: Enterprise virtualization platform
+- **vCenter**: Centralized management for vSphere environments
+- **HCX (Hybrid Cloud Extension)**: Enables any-to-any vSphere workload migration between on-premises and cloud
+- **VMC on AWS**: VMware Cloud on AWS jointly engineered with Amazon Web Services
+
+## Key People
+- Brian Reeves — VMware speaker, discussed VMC on AWS economics (27% cost savings vs. regular cloud)
+- Michael Riley — VMware speaker
+- Mike Armstrong — VMware speaker
+- Mike O'Reilly — Staff Cloud Solutions Architect at VMware, explained VMC on AWS technical architecture
+
+## Connections
+- [[VMware-Cloud-on-AWS]] ← provides ← [[AWS]] infrastructure partnership
+- [[ctp-topic-43-vmware-cloud-on-aws]] ← source ← [[VMware]]
+- [[ctp-topic-69-best-practices-for-migrating-on-premises-iod-virtual-machines-to-vm]] ← related_to ← [[VMware]]
+
+## Sources
+- [[ctp-topic-43-vmware-cloud-on-aws]]