The virtualization leader took the occasion of its user conference in Las Vegas to unveil a strategy for extending its market into virtual datacenters.

The plan is to extend its flagship virtualization products into a “virtual datacenter operating system,” allowing businesses to pool servers, storage and networking into a single computing “cloud” and allocate resources more efficiently.

“The next generation of innovative technologies in the Virtual Datacenter OS will enable companies to realize the promise of enterprise cloud computing – where applications are automatically guaranteed the right quality of service at the lowest (costs) by harnessing internal and external computing capacity,” said new CEO Paul Maritz in a press release.

By Mark Boslet, Editor at Large.