Citrix Acquires Sanbolic for SDN Smarts

Citrix announced it has acquired storage virtualization provider Sanbolic for an undisclosed sum.

Michael Cusanelli, Associate Editor

January 12, 2015

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Geir Ramleth senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Citrix
Geir Ramleth, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Citrix

Citrix (CTXS) announced it has acquired storage virtualization provider Sanbolic for an undisclosed sum.

The company expects Sanbolic’s SDN-centric solutions to complement its existing portfolio of mobile workspace solutions and reduce the complexity of Windows application delivery and VDI deployments.

“Infrastructure complexity continues to hinder VDI and application delivery deployments,” said Geir Ramleth, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Citrix, in a statement. “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.”

Citrix said the acquisition will allow its enterprise customers to deploy virtual apps and VDI across their organizations via Sanbolic’s geo-distribution capabilities, according to the announcement. Customers also will be able to use their existing cloud or on-premise storage, networking and compute infrastructures through the addition of Sanbolic’s solutions.

The Sanbolic team will join the Citrix organization immediately.

“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,” said Momchil Michailov, CEO and co-founder of Sanbolic. “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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Michael  Cusanelli

Associate Editor, Penton Technology Group, Channel

Michael Cusanelli is the associate editor for Penton Technology’s channel properties, including The VAR Guy, MSPmentor and Talkin' Cloud. He has written articles and produced video for Newsday.com and is a graduate of Stony Brook University's School of Journalism in New York. In his spare time Michael likes to play video games, watch sci-fi movies and participate in all things nerdy. He can be reached at [email protected]

 

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