Palo Alto: VMware HQ Campus and the Birthplace of Silicon Valley
Last night I drove over to Palo Alto, CA from San Jose. Thanks to the gracious efforts of my Softchoice VMware National Account team (Nancy and Mike, thanks again!) I had the privilege of an informal, after hours tour of VMware Head Quarters and spent some time enjoying a meal and great conversation on University Avenue: the social lifeline of Stanford University. Seeing VMware’s home on “the hill” was amazing and really brought a new perspective to the people and products I interact with on a daily basis.
Best described as an ergonomic setting, VMware HQ sprawls out across numerous buildings ( I wasn’t counting them!) all interconnected on multiple levels by various walkways and bridges. Walking down the center of the buildings you can’t help but notice beautiful and thriving vegetation. Highlights of the campus for me were a soccer field and gymnasium with what seemed like intramural games in progress on both. The gymnasium outer wall is actually a series of glass garage doors, and inside was where the stage for the vSphere launch event was positioned.
After leaving VMware I was taken to the HP Garage: a California Landmark marking where Hewlett and Packard are credited for starting Silicon Valley.
I was able to snap a few photos with my Blackberry camera. The gallery that follows also contains an image from Google Earth that provides an aerial view of VMware HQ (from 2007) that better shows the VMware campus layout.

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