iQuate is a software company which has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 2002, iQuate develops software to discover and report on what software is deployed on a device. This information is often used within Software Asset Management or License Management projects and practices, typically within very large organisations. iQuate has achieved a number of international "firsts" within its field, and has received a number of notable award nominations.
VMware, Inc. is a US software company that provides cloud and virtualization software and services, VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, while its enterprise software hypervisors for servers, VMware ESX and VMware ESXi, are bare-metal hypervisors that run directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system. In 1998, VMware was founded by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion. Greene and Rosenblum, who are married, first met while at the University of California, Berkeley.