In fact probably 20-25% of all the exhibits at the 2012 VM World Conference were either storage system companies, storage component suppliers or storage software companies.
This key capability for driving operational efficiency lets you deploy new VMs from the image library and the system will maintain the relationship between the golden image and the deployed VM.
Flush on the heels of the Flash Memory Summit, VM World in San Francisco was the haven of a great many storage system companies, many of who demonstrated flash memory as part of their storage architecture.