Intel Broadens Support for Virtualization

"With VMWare we've put a micro-architecture instance into our hardware to help reduce the latency switching between virtual machines, or moving to one rack [server computer] to another," Otellini said.

Interestingly enough, there was no mention from the chip-giant of collaboration with Oracle on its own virtualization solution, which was announced just one day prior.

Oracle, the world's second largest software company behind Microsoft, will conclude its enterprise software conference on Nov. 15. It began on Nov. 11.