But Bogomil Balkansky, director of product marketing for virtualization company VMware, is even more ambitious.
Companies that have used BranchOut include Microsoft, Yahoo, Salesforce, VMWare, Pfizer and State Farm.
As VMware executives describe it, virtualization customers are moving through three stages of virtualization.
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VMware did beat the Street in the latest quarter, however, both on profit and sales.
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You will notice that in the specifications the word virtualization or VMware is mentioned nowhere.
In addition, VMWare continues to dominate the virtualization market, adding a strong growth engine.
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VMware has agreed to acquire DynamicOps, a provider of cloud application development software.
Microsoft is considered VMware's biggest threat, and the software giant says it's serious about virtualization.
VMware is a big flop while Salesforce.com is up 100 percent over 12 months.
Sky high multiple plays like VMware and Salesforce.com which have moved contrapuntally, leave me cold.
He also has better resources than his size suggests, drawing off teams within EMC and VMWare.
With HP, Intel, and VMware, you have to figure it out all the way through.
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"Virtualization is rapidly becoming the way computing is done, " said VMware Chief Executive Officer DianeGreeneDiane Greene.
VMware, like many software companies, generates revenue primarily by selling new software licenses to its customers.
Yesterday VMWare announced a big move into end-user centric access and management of cloud-based applications.
VMware (VMW) has put in a tight flag since dropping more than 20% after its earnings.
Here are some big names with big customer bases pushing VMware-based compute stacks forward.
VMware (NYSE:VMW) is in a tight lower range since being put in the earnings penalty box.
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Instead, VMware hopes, developers will rapidly be able to create applications that work in several cloud systems.
Names like Apple (AAPL), VMWare (VMW), Amazon.com (AMZN), priceline.com (PCLN), salesforce.com inc (CRM), to name a few.
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VMWare (VMW) was also struggling after its report last night, but has rallied back to positive territory.
There are a handful of tech houses with growth trajectories of 20 percent or more, like VMware.
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EMC's release came a day after that of its former subsidiary VMware, which makes computer virtualization software.
But more importantly for Microsoft, VMware is featured in a number of others that are currently available.
In particular, she noted that Citrix Systems, which acquired VMware rival XenSource this month, might pose a challenge.
Nine years ago I was on the wrong side of this argument with Diane Greene, founder of VMWare.
Analysts agree that VMware's collapsing stock price and lower revenue warning probably prompted its board to oust Greene.
"If you look at the competitive offerings, they're comparable to the VMware of 2001 to 2003, " he says.
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