Vmware has announced a new product called Virtual Data Center Operating System.

The virtual datacenter OS addresses customers’ needs for flexibility, speed, resiliency and efficiency by transforming the datacenter into an “internal cloud” – an elastic, shared, self- managing and self-healing utility that can federate with external clouds of computing capacity freeing IT from the constraints of static hardware-mapped applications.

The virtual datacenter OS guarantees appropriate levels of availability, security and scalability to all applications independent of hardware and location.