See, PlateSpin manages workloads on either physical or virtual hosts and is supposed to be good at server consolidation, data center relocation, disaster recovery, controlling virtual machine sprawl and handling billing and chargebacks. And since virtualized architecture is supposed to become the norm in most IT organizations over the next few years Novell expects to make a killing furnishing the management solutions that will be needed. During a conference call connected with the acquisition announcement Novell repeatedly mentioned PlateSpin's growth rate but declined to quantity it. |