Citrix Announces Aquisition of Sanbolic

Citrix has announced it has completed its acquisition of workload-oriented storage virtualization technologies company, Sanbolic. Sanbolic technology allows customers to leverage software defined storage to optimize the delivery of application-specific workload. This is accomplished by using flash and hard drives in NAS, SAN, server-side and cloud deployments, which helps to improve storage load balancing, application availability resulting in high-performance end-user experience. The Sanbolic team will join the Citrix organization staring immediately though the terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Citrix has announced it has completed its acquisition of workload-oriented storage virtualization technologies company, Sanbolic. Sanbolic technology allows customers to leverage software defined storage to optimize the delivery of application-specific workload. This is accomplished by using flash and hard drives in NAS, SAN, server-side and cloud deployments, which helps to improve storage load balancing, application availability resulting in high-performance end-user experience. The Sanbolic team will join the Citrix organization staring immediately though the terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Sanbolic feature set also allows customer deployments to:

• Be geo-distributed across multiple locations and clouds
• Scale in a linear and predictable manner
• Have simplified provisioning and management
• Gain overall efficiency.

Citrix indicates that the acquisition of Sanbolic’s workload-oriented infrastructure technologies, coupled with its XenDesktop, XenApp and XenMobile products, will enable them to develop a variety of differentiated solutions. In addition, Citrix claims that this will allow them to dramatically improve the economics and reduce the complexity of Windows application delivery and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments.

Citrix also indicates that, with the acquisition, it will enable a new range of solutions focused on best-in-class price, performance, experience, security and flexibility and will allow customers to use their existing storage, networking and compute infrastructure, whether on site or in the cloud.

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