This is a pretty significant acquisition.  Opalis offers some great IT automation processes that snaps right into key pieces of System Center today (OpsMgr and ConfigMgr) as well as maintains several Integration Packs for some of the most popular...

My teammate Michael Greene created this link - http://bit.ly/edtech-virt – to reference when looking for MSFT Case Studies that reference EDU customers (K-12 and HED) when they involve out virtualization stack (Hyper-V, App-V, etc.) and/or System Center...

So if you want to see some webcasts that I have done recently on the topic of System Center and the like for EDU environments, check out www.educationwebcasts.com .  There you will find several webcasts I have conducted on various aspects of management...