Microsoft acquires Opalis

We just announced we’ve acquired Opalis Software, a Toronto-based private company that is a leader in IT process automation software. Opalis will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft. What do they do?

Opalis v6.0 automates the integration and orchestration of cloud actions such as:

• Cloud Bursting – automate public cloud provisioning to handle peak loads and prevent SLA violations
• Cloud Cover – automate failover to public or private clouds
• Private Cloud Operation – create and manage service driven, flexible capacity with automation
• Sophisticated triggering – subscribe to external events to trigger workflow processes that add, reduce or fail-over to cloud resources according to policies and SLAs

The System Center blog has more details saying

For Microsoft customers this acquisition provides access to a new set of capabilities to help you automate your processes and tasks in your datacenter environment. Our virtualization stack just became more complete with the capabilities of Opalis

tres interesting…