VUmbrella (VU), the parent company of VMTrainers was founded in 2008 by three independent trainers with the express purpose of providing freelance VMware Certified Instructors (VCIs) with a single entity through which they can be exposed to multiple vendors. VU represents 20+ instructors on a variety of products such as VMware, Veeam, Nutanix and others.

All VUmbrella instructors are VMware Certified.
The people of VUmbrella are:
- Brian Perry, President
- Moriah Perry, Operations Manager