Citrix Acquires ShareFile, The “Dropbox For Enterprises”
Citrix Systems has acquired ShareFile, a cloud storage, file sharing and collaboration solutions provider, the companies announced this morning.
ShareFile enables businesses to securely store, sync and share business documents and files, both inside and outside the company, across multiple devices.
The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
ShareFile CEO, Jesse Lipson, will become VP and General Manager of the newly-formed Data Sharing product group at Citrix, which will be responsible for the ShareFile product line.
The move is in keeping with Citrix’s vision of a so-called “personal cloud” – a collection of files, apps and personal data unique to every person and accessible from any location and device.
ShareFile competed with the likes of Dropbox and Box.net, but was more focused on selling its offerings to IT departments within organizations of all sizes, rather than consumers and small businesses. Other alternatives include Egnyte, Nomadesk, Mozy and Syncplicity.
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ShareFile
ShareFile.com
October 14, 2011
Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, ShareFile allows businesses to create a custom-branded, password-protected area where files can be exchanged with clients easily, securely, and professionally.
The initial version of ShareFile was released in 2003 under a different product name and was distributed to a limited number of clients, many of whom where based in the local Research Triangle Park area. In November of 2005, a completely rebuilt version of ShareFile was released.
In just four years, ShareFile has grown from…
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Citrix Systems
citrix.com
October 14, 1989
Citrix Systems is an American multinational corporation with a focus on software and services specialized in virtualization and remote access software for delivering applications over a network and the Internet.
Citrix desktop virtualization, application virtualization, server virtualization, application networking, cloud computing and Software as a Service offerings are designed to simplify computing for millions of users, delivering applications as an on-demand service to any user, in any location on any device.
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