Virtualisation software provider Citrix Systems moved into the storage-control realm with the acquisition of ShareFile, a provider of secure, cloud-based data storage, sharing and collaboration software. The companies did not disclose terms of the deal.
ShareFile software, which uses a centralised control panel, is designed to simplify the secure storage, synchronisation and sharing of business documents and files, both inside and outside the company. It also allows users to share files across multiple devices and access them from any location. Citrix will integrate the product into a new cloud service called “Follow-Me Data”.
ShareFile will fill what was a major gap in Citrix’s cloud data strategy and brings to the company a development team with much experience in data services and cloud computing. ShareFile CEO Jesse Lipson will become vice president and general manager of the newly formed Data Sharing product group at Citrix. This group will be responsible for the ShareFile product line in addition to enabling the Citrix Follow-Me-Data strategy.
“Our Follow-Me-Data strategy means files will be shared across people, across apps, and across devices. As customers and partners build on this platform, they will be able to easily add Follow-Me-Data services to their software, leverage the data that other apps store there, and instantly inherit all the management, mobility and scalability that’s in the ShareFile infrastructure,” he added.
Using ShareFile’s storage and data-movement control package as the front end for its new platform, Citrix now will be able to:
Citrix said it will reveal more of its plans for ShareFile and the new data platform at Citrix Synergy in Barcelona on 26-28 October.
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