Microsoft acquires Opalis Software
As virtualization and cloud computing become more mainstream, new tools are needed for data center orchestration/automation. Citrix has something call Workflow Studio for orchestration, and VMware acquired a company called Dunes Technology for orchestration. With the acquisition of Opalis, Microsoft looks to add orchestration to the System Center line. Some examples might be:
- Incident response - standardize and automate triage, diagnose and repair processes to reduce the number of incidents.
- Provisioning - orchestrate datacenter tools to configure, deploy, and verify IT services in response to an incident or change request. Provision server, storage, or network resources across physical, virtual or cloud environments.
- Virtual service management - automate virtual lifecycle management to control server sprawl and extend management best practices, such as incident management and provisioning, to your virtual environments.
- Run book procedures - automate re-occurring maintenance and administrative tasks, such as data and file handling, database and application support.
- Cloud Computing - automate cloud lifecycle management, to request, provision, release and track costs of cloud resources.
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