Citrix seals Sanbolic acquisition

VDI specialist is now full owner of storage virtualisation player and has global plans

Citrix has completed the acquisition of storage virtualisation vendor Sanbolic and claims the deal will help it develop a range of "differentiated solutions" to its global customer network.

The deal, for an undisclosed sum, will see Citrix work with its channel partners, systems integrators and technology partners to grow the firm's customer base and deliver what it describes as the broadest range of optimised storage solutions.

Sanbolic’s technology allows customer deployments to be geo-distributed across multiple locations and clouds, to scale in a linear and predictable manner and to gain overall efficiency, the firms claimed.

Its team will join the Citrix organisation with immediate effect.

Geir Ramleth, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Citrix, said the deal will help tackle the growing problem of complexity.

"Infrastructure complexity continues to hinder VDI and application delivery deployments," he said. "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."

Moncil Michalilov, co-founder of Sanbolic, added: "There are tremendous synergies between our 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. Joining the Citrix team massively increases our ability to bring our 13 years of experience to enterprise customers across the globe."