(Within the Evo announcement, the company announced two products: a hardware-based virtualized networking product called Evo Rail, and a preview of Evo Rack, a data center-scale cloud infrastructure product.) Further, the company announced a joint initiative with Docker, Google (GOOG), and corporate sibling Pivotal to incorporate containers, a software structure that helps isolate distributed applications in development to reduce complications, in VMware software. "Infrastructure is not an end to itself; it's an end to applications," VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said from the stage. "It's all about running apps." Two of the announcements are particularly important for the company's long-term prospects.