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Red Hat
Based on 639 reviews.
VMware
Based on 2228 reviews.
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Overview
Red Hat, Inc. is an American multinational software company providing open-source software products to the enterprise community. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with satellite offices worldwide. Red Hat has become associated to a large extent with its enterprise operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux and with the acquisition of open-source enterprise middleware vendor JBoss. Red Hat also offers Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, an enterprise virtualization product. Red Hat provides storage, operating system platforms, middleware, applications, management products, and support, training, and consulting services.
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.
Sample Customers
RHEV
Qualcomm and Bonham's Auction House.
Red Hat OpenShift
UPS, Cathay Pacific, Hilton
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops
Casio, Telef‹nica, British Airways
JBoss
Tata Sky, Nissan, Swedish Board of Agriculture, Novamedia, American Product Distributors, Advanced Micro Devices, Emirates Group, E*TRADE
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
HootSuite Media, Inc., Cloud Physics, Narrative, BinckBank
Red Hat Satellite
Baloise Bank SoBa, ETH Zurich, Munich Airport, ING-DiBa, Produban
Red Hat Ceph Storage
Dell, DreamHost
Red Hat Gluster Storage
NTT Plala, McMaster University, University of Basque Country, Goodtech ASA, Cox Automotive, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), SaskTel, Glashart Media, Casio
Red Hat AMQ
E*TRADE, CERN, CenturyLink, AECOM, Sabre Holdings
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS
E*TRADE, CERN, CenturyLink, AECOM, Sabre Holdings
Red Hat CloudForms
Cox Automotive, Penn State, FICO, G-ABLE, Seneca College, ITandTEL, The Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS), MyRepublic, Macquarie, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, CBTS, Network Data Solutions (NDS)
CoreOS Clair
eBay, Veritas, Verizon, SalesForce
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes
City National Bank, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Red Hat Quay
The Asiakastieto Group, Akbank, TTTECH
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Edenor, BMW, Ford, Argentine Ministry of Health
VMware Cloud Director
MicroStrategy, National Democratic Institute, and NYSE Euronext.
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth
Pinterest, Dow Jones, RhythmOne, Ziff Davis, Acquia, Mentor Graphics, Lookout, Veracode, SwiftKey, Amtrak, Shi, Imgur, SumoLogic, NewsUK, Cloudera, Canvas
VMware Aria Automation
Rent-a-Center, Amway, Vistra Energy, Liberty Mutual
VMware Aria Operations
Science Applications International Corporation, Tribune Media, Heartland Payment Systems, Telkom Indonesia, Columbia Sportswear, iGATE, CSS Corp, Angel Broking, Adira Finance, Hipskind, Beiersdorf Shared Services, Innovate Mas Indonesia, Adobe, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi , Join Experience S.A, Borusan Holdings, Department of Transport - Abu Dhabi
VMware Tanzu Platform
Verizon, Cerner, Zipcar, Avarteq
vCenter Configuration Manager
Bank Al Bilad, Thomas-Krenn.AG, Pronto!, Unimed Juiz de Fora
VMware Tanzu Data Solutions
General Electric, Conversant, China CITIC Bank, Aridhia, Purdue University
VMware App Volumes
NetApp
VMware Fusion Pro
NetApp
VMware Workstation
Akademiska Hus
VMware vSphere
Abu Dhabi Ports Company, ACS, AIA New Zealand, Consona, Corporate Express, CS Energy, and Digiweb.
VMware NSX
City of Avondale, Lumeta, Kroll Ontrack, Heartland Payment Systems, Baystate Heallth, Exostar, Tribune Media, iGATE, NTT Communications, Synergent, California Natural Resources Agency, Bloomington Public Schools, Columbia Sportswear, Join Experience S.A, Schuberg Philis
VMware vSAN
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Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Humana, Citibank, Mercedes Benz, Liberty Mutual, The Home Depot, GE, West Corp, Merrill Corporation, CoreLogic, Orange, Dish Network, Comcast, Bloomberg, Internal Revenue Service, Ford Motor Company, Garmin, Volkswagen, Solera, Allstate, US Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, ScotiaBank
VMware Software Defined Storage
Helse Nord, Sky
VMware Cloud Foundation
ricoh, dell technologies, sky
VMware Harbor Registry
360 Total Security, OVHcloud, TalkingData, Trend Micro
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Top Industries
Financial Services Firm
17%
Educational Organization
13%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Educational Organization
18%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
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