http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/24/AR2008032401119.html

VMware plans to improve virtual infrastructure through technologies such as high availability, automatic restart, better tolerance and masking of hardware failure, and site disaster recovery, the company’s chief scientist and co-founder, Mendel Rosenblum, told reporters in Bangalore on Monday.

A virtual machine would, for example, be able to record its execution on another virtual machine in a compact form, so that if one of them dies the other one takes over, Rosenblum said. He did not disclose the time frame when products based on these technologies will be available.

Virtualization will be more attractive if companies are pinched by a recession, said Diane Greene, VMware president and CEO. “People can do more with less, include perhaps postpone opening a new data center for three years, and do things more rapidly with fewer IT people,” she added.

Very cool, any innovations in the availability or fault tolerance areas has to be a good thing, particularly in terms of business continuity or service improvement. It will be interesting to see what new enhancements or products are released in the near future.