Citrix Acquires Sanbolic
January 12 2015 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Sanbolic Core Technology to Help Drive Down the
Cost and Complexity of Storage for App Delivery and VDI
Deployments
Citrix announced today that is has completed its acquisition of
Sanbolic, an innovator and leader in workload-oriented storage
virtualization technologies. Sanbolic technology enables customers
to software-define storage to optimize the delivery of
application-specific workloads, from any media type – SSD, Flash
and hard drives in NAS, SAN, server-side and cloud deployments –
improving storage load balancing, application availability and
delivering the highest-performance end-user experience. The
acquisition of this robust set of workload-oriented infrastructure
technologies, combined with its market-leading XenDesktop, XenApp
and XenMobile products, enables Citrix to develop a range of
differentiated solutions. These solutions will dramatically improve
the economics and reduce the complexity of Windows application
delivery and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments.
Sanbolic allows customer deployments to be geo-distributed
across multiple locations and clouds; to scale in a linear and
predictable manner; to have simplified provisioning and management;
and to gain overall efficiency. The Sanbolic team will join the
Citrix organization immediately. The terms of the acquisition were
not disclosed.
Minimizing Infrastructure and Storage Complexity for App
Delivery and VDI
Enterprises will now be able to deploy virtual apps and VDI
across their organizations, while guaranteeing workload service
level agreements through the platform’s enhanced quality of
service. While server hardware and software licensing costs are
well understood, storage often presents the biggest barrier to
cost-effective and seamless implementations. With the acquisition
of Sanbolic, Citrix will enable a new range of solutions aimed at
delivering best-in-class price, performance, experience, security
and flexibility. Unlike most other solutions in the market, this
hyper-converged solution from Citrix will also allow customers to
use their existing storage, networking and compute infrastructure,
whether on premise or in the cloud.
More than 200 Citrix customers already use Sanbolic to guarantee
non-stop availability and geo-clustering of their XenApp and
XenDesktop solutions. Citrix will continue to work with its
strategic technology partners, systems integrators and channel
community to bring these storage solutions to customers, and with
its storage partner ecosystem to deliver the broadest range of
optimized storage solutions.
Quotes
Geir Ramleth, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy
Officer at Citrix
“Infrastructure complexity continues to hinder VDI and
application delivery deployments. By leveraging Sanbolic technology
with XenDesktop and XenApp, Citrix is able to address this problem
head-on, delivering solutions to our customers that simplify the
infrastructure and reduce the overall cost of deployment and
management. Sanbolic has built a highly-skilled team that joins us
today, which accelerates our ability to deliver simpler and more
cost-effective solutions to our customers.”
Momchil Michailov, CEO and Co-founder, Sanbolic
“There are tremendous synergies between our companies. With our
server-side and converged storage management solutions and Citrix
desktop and app virtualization technology, we are enabling
enterprise data and workloads to be highly available and elastic
based on changing business demands. Joining the Citrix team
massively increases our ability to bring our 13 years of experience
to enterprise customers across the globe.”
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to enable new ways to work better. Citrix solutions power business
mobility through secure, personal workspaces that provide
people with instant access to apps, desktops, data and
communications on any device, over any network and cloud. With
annual revenue in 2013 of $2.9 billion, Citrix solutions are in use
at more than 330,000 organizations and by over 100 million users
globally. Learn more at www.citrix.com.
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