As VMware turns 15, the company is looking back at how much it has changed since being founded in 1997.
The company has unveiled the VMware Time Machine in celebration of its 15th anniversary and says through the release, it is providing the consumer with a snapshot of not only its own history, but of other significant milestones in the ICT calendar over the past 15 years.
The VMware time machine offers an interactive timeline back to where VMware began, as well as insight into the developments within the company, the technological innovations it has brought into the industry and the impact it has had on IT, the organisation says.
According to the virtualisation giant, through the time machine, viewers can look into the past and the future; observing how the company has progressed and what it plans to achieve over the next 15 years.
Some highlights of the time machine include the fact that VMware was the first company to boot Windows 95 on a virtual machine and that it was the first to virtualise the Intel processor, something previously thought impossible.
Today, the company says, VMware's virtualisation technology has been named one of the 25 most influential products of the past 25 years, adding that its vSphere4 product generated more than 500 000 downloads in the first five months and the company was recently voted one of 2013's 50 Disruptive Companies, according to MIT Technology Review's annual list.
While the time machine provides an interactive walkthrough of the above, it also contextualises where these milestones fit into the rest of the industry, providing a view of when Google was founded, when Apple introduced the first Mac, the release of the first BlackBerry, how a 3G Auction raised $22.5 billion, the unveiling of the first IPod, the foundation of Wikipedia and the launch of the Xbox, it concludes.
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