VMware Bolsters End User Computing Portfolio With Socialcast Buy VMware added another piece to its end user computing arsenal this week by acquiring Socialcast, a provider of enterprise social collaboration solutions, for an undisclosed sum. San Francisco-based Socialcast offers its software as a hosted service, a private cloud implementation, or via an on-premise solution. Its technology is designed to facilitate information-sharing, knowledge transfer across geographies, employee engagement, and task management across companies. Socialcast becomes another piece in VMware's end user computing portfolio, which includes VMware View desktop virtualization, ThinApp, SlideRocket, and Zimbra.