Novell loses two key employees gained from the acquisition of long time virtualization solution provider, PlateSpin. Some people enjoy working for large companies with established products and large teams, while others enjoy working at smaller, more dynamic companies in order to try and help build them up and get them off the ground.Mark Pileski was most recently director of corporate marketing for Novell, which he joined with the acquisition of PlateSpin. He has spent more than 10 years helping to grow software companies. Pileski joined PlateSpin back in January 2005 as one of the founding members of the PlateSpin marketing team. While at PlateSpin, the company grew exponentially due in part to the demand generation and marketing activities led by Pileski. In July, he moved on from Novell to join the virtual lab automation company, VMLogix, to whom he will bring a wealth of marketing experience to help further push the company down their growth path as the company’s vice president of marketing. “As the hypervisor gets commoditized and businesses get more educated on virtualization, they are looking for value-add applications on top of the virtualization platform. Such applications, like VMLogix LabManager, are designed for specific use cases and help companies unlock more value from their virtualization investments,” said Pileski. “I’m excited to join the VMLogix team and raise the visibility of LabManager among our target markets.”And now one month later, Novell loses another former key PlateSpin employee, Brett Johnson — the company’s Director of Sales for Eastern North America. At PlateSpin, he developed key channel, distribution, and customer relationships for the company and managed the enterprise sales organization in North America.Johnson has moved on from Novell to join the recently announced Credit Suisse spinoff, DynamicOps, a provider of server and desktop virtualization management solutions. In his new role at DynamicOps as vice president of sales, Johnson will oversee all sales activities for the virtualization management software company, including its channel partner activities. It will be interesting to see if any other key PlateSpin employees choose to return to their virtualization startup roots. Software Development