GEC NEWS WIRESanbolic Core Technology to Drive down the Cost and Complexity of Storage for App Delivery and VDI
Citrix has completed its acquisition of Sanbolic, an innovator 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, improving storage load balancing, application availability and delivering the highest-performance end-user experience. 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.
According to GeirRamleth, 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.”
“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 enablingenterprise 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”, says Momchil Michailov, CEO and Co-founder, Sanbolic.
