VMware and vSphere background

When we talk about VMware, most of you; probably will think about virtualization, and when we talk about virtualization, the first name that probably comes to mind will be VMware vSphere. VMware's history is strictly related to virtualization, as it was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture (in the late 1990s), making a new era and a new wave in information technology (IT) possible.

IT historical waves were the mainframe, the PC, the network; now they are followed by virtualization and cloud computing shown as follows:

IT waves

Although the first commercial virtualization ...

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