Throughout its 17 years of existence, VMware has journeyed from being a five-person startup into becoming a 5.2 billion dollar high-tech powerhouse with more than 14,000 employees in over 50 locations around the world. VMware has gone from inventing virtualization for the x86 platform to making virtualization the standard for IT. In this way, VMware has helped companies save billions of dollars a year in infrastructure costs, and it is poised today to lead the world into the next level of efficiency and innovation.