Accelerite Finalizes Acquisition of Citrix Cloud Products
Cloud and mobility infrastructure software provider Accelerite announced this week that it has closed the acquisition of CloudPlatform and CloudPortal Business Manager, two products from Citrix Systems Inc, just over two months after the deal had initially been announced.
Cloud and mobility infrastructure software provider Accelerite announced this week that it has closed the acquisition of CloudPlatform and CloudPortal Business Manager, two products from Citrix Systems Inc, just over two months after the deal was initially announced.
Accelerite said the addition of Cloud Platform and CloudPortal Business Manager will help enterprises and telecom providers “rapidly deliver private and public clouds and expand capacity on-demand” and round out its cloud portfolio, which includes “ConVirt for multi-cloud, multi-virtualization, hybrid cloud self-service management, rCloud for cloud based Disaster-Recover-as-a-Service and Rovius for enterprise-grade disaster recovery.”
Powered by Apache CloudStack, CloudPlatform is enables cloud orchestration while CloudPortal Business Manager is for cloud services front-end.
In January when the deal was first announced, Citrix VP of Core Infrastructure Steve Wilson said unloading CloudPlatform and CloudPortal Business Manager would allow Citrix to focus on “core priorities around the secure delivery of apps and data.” Its cloud portfolio will continue to include NetScaler, XenServer and Citrix Workspace Cloud.
“CloudPlatform and the CloudPortal Business Manager product lines further strengthen our innovative end-to-end cloud solutions for enterprise and telecommunications customers as they migrate applications and data to public and private cloud environments,” Accelerite CEO Nara Rajagopalan said in a statement. “We are protecting and enhancing customers’ investment in these products by delivering world-class technical support, investing further in product development and offering new capabilities unique to the enterprise product. We remain committed to the open source community and will continue to make contributions.”
Focusing on its core competency and unloading products that don’t fit into that vision has driven Citrix to shut down another product recently. Citrix quietly shutdown Melio, a core product of Sanbolic, a company Citrix acquired in 2015. Melio was an enterprise storage and data virtualization platform.