Microsoft said on Friday that it has acquired Toronto-based Opalis Software, a maker of datacentre management software.
The company did not disclose financial details of the transaction, but said the move will augment its System Center line of management software. Opalis's products already plug in to System Center, as well as other companies' management software. Over time, Microsoft plans to add some of Opalis's software into System Center itself.
"I believe this acquisition is a pivotal piece to deliver on our dynamic datacentre initiative," Microsoft vice president Brad Anderson said in a blog posting. "This deal brings together the deep datacentre automation expertise of Opalis with the integrated physical and virtualised datacentre management capabilities of Microsoft System Center."
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