The jam-packed VMworld show this week in San Francisco has been VMware's launchpad for flights deeper into storage, an area that the company thinks is due for more virtualization. While VMware's new NSX network hypervisor has sent shockwaves through that industry, the company is also introducing or teasing products that bring some new ideas to storage. The idea is the same in both cases: Let enterprises pool their IT resources and apply them to applications and VMs (virtual machines) as needed.