In September 2007 VMware acquired one of the few companies busy in the virtual infrastructure orchestration market: Dunes Technologies.
After more than one year, the company has yet to unveil how Dunes products will be integrated into VMware Infrastructure, but at least we now know where a part of the knowledge is going: Dan Mitchell, former Technical Director of Dunes left VMware to join the startup DynamicOps in June 2008 (see virtualization.info coverage here).
DynamicOps is busy in the VM lifecycle management segment and Mitchell certainly has some experience to share because of the powerful VS-O orchestration framework that Dunes developed in the last five years.