Citrix has announced the acquisition of Sanbolic, an innovator in workload-oriented storage virtualisation technologies for an undisclosed amount.
According to the VDI solutions vendor, Sanbolic technology enables customers to software define storage to optimise the delivery of application-specific workloads, from any media type including SSD, Flash and hard drives in NAS, SAN, server-side and cloud deployments.
Citrix said the acquisition, combined with its XenDesktop, XenApp and XenMobile products, enables the company to develop a range of differentiated solutions.
Geir Ramleth, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Citrix said: “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 by 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 said there are tremendous synergies between the companies. “With our server side and converged storage management solutions and Citrix desktop and app virtualisation technology, we are enabling enterprise data and workloads to be highly available and elastic based on changing business demands,” he said. “Joining the Citrix team massively increases our ability to bring our 13 years of experience to enterprise customers across the globe.”
Citrix stated that it will continue to work with its strategic technology partners, systems integrators and channel community to bring these storage solutions to customers with the broadest range of optimised storage solutions.
