Announcing @Citrix Acquires @Sanbolic | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]

Citrix announced on Monday that is has completed its acquisition of Sanbolic, an innovator and leader 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 – SSD, Flash and hard drives in NAS, SAN, server-side and cloud deployments – improving storage load balancing, application availability and delivering the highest-performance end-user experience. The acquisition of this robust set of workload-oriented infrastructure technologies, combined with its market-leading XenDesktop, XenApp and XenMobile products, enables Citrix to develop a range of differentiated solutions. These solutions will dramatically improve the economics and reduce the complexity of Windows application delivery and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments.

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