VMware Hiring Acceleration

VMware, an independent, wholly-owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation, currently supplies much of the virtualization software that is available for x86-compatible computers, including VMware Player, VMware ACE, VMware Workstation, VMware Server and VMware Infrastructure.

The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, but has also established a research and development facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts back in 2005.

With the rapid growth that the company has been going through lately, the 17,000 square foot Cambridge facility has proven that it can no longer handle the number of employees that VMware plans on locating on the east coast. The company has therefore moved their office location to a new space located at 5 Cambridge Center – a 50,000 square-foot office space that can accommodate 250 people.

The Cambridge office currently employs around 60 people, but VMware expects this new location will be adding up to 115 people by the end of the year.

The location is important for a number of reasons. VMware hopes to pull from the talent pool of people who currently live on the east coast. The company is also heavily active with collaborating on research and development projects with Harvard, MIT, Boston University, and Columbia and Brown. Additionally, as the company continues to work on new storage development projects, it helps to be close to EMC’s offices in Hopkinton.

As VMware continues to spread its wings and move into new areas and markets, such as expanded storage development, new application development (such as their virtual lab management solution), as well as entering new virtualization markets such as the Intel-based Mac platform, the company will continue to hire people in an accelerated fashion.