development founded 2003 founder stephen pollack headquarters toronto canada key people stephen pollack john stetic adam white ari glaizel kenny kerr dan sieroka david krenos products virtualization management workload management revenue 25 000 000 number of employees 200 website http www.platespin.com platespin is a subsidiary of novell formerly headquartered in toronto canada which produces tools to help manage virtualization on vmware microsoft hyper v or citrix xenserver . contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit formed in 2003 from a receivership platespin refocused its product line and rapidly grew from 0 to 25m in five years . platespin won an international stevie award in 2006 for best overall company and earned several high growth awards in canada and the united states . 1 in 2006 the company reached the milestone of over 2 500 customers worldwide and more than tripled its global headcount to over 150 employees . on february 25 2008 novell announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire platespin ltd. for 205 million usd . 2 on march 31 2008 novell announced that it had completed the acquisition of platespin which would become part of the novell systems and resource management business unit and continue to develop and market its solutions to a global customer base . 3 on may 18 2011 attachmate announced that they had transferred the platespin products from their novell business unit to their netiq business unit . 4 in 2014 attachmate closed the toronto canada office of platespin and moved all remaining north american operations to the united states . products edit platespin focuses on tools to help manage virtualization on vmware microsoft hyper v or citrix xenserver . platespin recon formerly powerrecon enables system administrators to inventory their physical and virtual servers and catalog resources like cpu type amount of ram disk storage etc. platespin recon can also monitor the utilization of these resources over time and create profiles that can be used to facilitate server consolidation initiatives . platespin migrate formerly powerconvert allows system administrators to migrate workloads between physical and virtual servers in order to match workload to the machine best suited for the job . platespin protect formerly powerconvert allows system administrators to protect physical and virtual workloads by creating and maintaining virtual machine copies for disaster recovery and business continuity purposes . platespin forge is a hardware appliance that allows system administrators to protect physical and virtual workloads by leveraging embedded virtualization . platespin forge includes all of the software hardware and storage needed to deploy a simple disaster recovery solution . references edit platespin news release novell to acquire data center management leader platespin press release . platespin ltd. 2008 02 25 . retrieved 2008 02 25 . novell completes platespin acquisition press release . novell inc. 2008 03 31 . retrieved 2008 07 31 . netiq adds identity security and select data center lines from novell press release . 2011 05 18 . retrieved 2011 05 18 . external links edit platespin s website novell s website platespin recon product page platespin migrate product page platespin protect product page platespin forge product page linkedin profile coordinates 43 39 11 n 79 21 47 w 43.65299 n 79.36300 w 43.65299 ; 79.36300 this software article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title platespin & oldid 730523876 categories companies established in 2003virtualization softwarehidden categories coordinates not on wikidataall stub articlessoftware stubs navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 19 july 2016 at 14 57 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view