Virtualization giant VMware is getting deeper into the healthcare sector now that Peake Healthcare Innovations has OEM’d its virtualization technology to power a new public/hybrid cloud offering.  It will enable doctors and hospitals treat patients much more effectively. Peake is a joint venture between Harris Corporation and Johns Hopkins.

Peake’s platform offers medical institutions more rapid collaboration of medical images via virtualization. Doctors and nurses can access this vital data in the cloud from “a variety of end devices,” which presumably means handsets, and brainstorm in collaboration via desktops running VMware View.  Equally critical is the fact that, because Peake hosts patient images on a public infrastructure, they can be made instantaneously available to the different hospital a person is being transferred for one reason or another. This particular point of appeal can also had wide-spreading advantages in a number of other medical situations.

Overall, Peake’s cloud couples its two sponsors’ medical assets with VMware software and Intel chips.

“The medical imaging cloud is an ideal application for virtualization and cloud infrastructure technology because it can improve the quality of patient care by enabling physicians to review patient images in a collaborative, secure environment,” said Frank Nydam, senior director, Healthcare, VMware. “We are pleased to be working with Peake Healthcare Innovations to bring to market an innovative offering that can transform the quality and delivery of patient care, along with the ability to lower costs.”

Peake is the second joint venture VMware has gotten itself mixed up in lately. The first once was revealed yesterday: Canopy, an end-to-end cloud provider that will base its offerings on EMC and VMware solutions, with management and some additional aspects provided by Atos.

Also today, another VMware partner had a little update. NetApp, a direct competitor of EMC, released a new white paper covering vSphere 5 best practices.