Diane Greene
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Virtualisation. Greene co-founded VMware in 1998 with Mendel Rosenblum, her husband, and Stanford colleagues Ed Bugnion, Scott Devine and Edward Wang, and served as chief executive. Their software let one x86 server run many separate virtual machines, which cut data-centre costs and became the foundation of cloud computing. EMC bought VMware in 2004 and the board removed her in 2008. She later ran Google's cloud business.
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