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Follow UsSANTA CLARA, USA: Virtual computing solutions provider Citrix Systems announced the acquisition of ShareFile, a provider of cloud-based data storage, sharing and collaboration services. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
The ShareFile product line allows users to store, sync and share business documents and files, both inside and outside the company. ShareFile’s centralized cloud storage capability also allows users to share files across multiple devices and access them from any location, says the company in a release.
Based on industry estimates, Citrix expects the personal cloud market to be a multi-billion dollar opportunity by 2015, fueled by trends such as cloud computing, faster bandwidth, e-mail limitations and consumerization of IT.
Mark Templeton, president and CEO, Citrix Systems Inc., said: “This is a highly strategic acquisition that enables Citrix to deliver all three of the critical components for the personal cloud - collaboration, apps and data - with amazing accessibility and productivity on any device."
Citrix, which delivers “follow-me-desktops” and “follow-me-apps” to more than 100 million users, will add “follow-me-data” capabilities to its portfolio with this acquisition, allowing business users to access documents and files from anywhere, share them across multiple devices and also able to collaborate.
"Our follow-me-data strategy means data 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, leaverage the data that other apps store there, and instantly inherit all the management, mobility and scalability that’s in the ShareFile infrastructure.”
Jesse Lipson, CEO, ShareFile, said: “Joining the Citrix team will provide a great home to the thousands of ShareFile corporate customers, serving millions of users worldwide. The combination of Citrix and ShareFile will also help spur incredible new innovation around the role of data in the new Cloud Era workplace.”
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, as well as enabling the Citrix “follow-me-data” strategy.