Citrix Summit 2015專題 - 思傑收購Sanbolic開啓新的融合架構對抗vmware

Citrix acquires Sanbolic to open newconverged infrastructure front against VMware

思傑收購Sanbolic開啓新的融合架構對抗vmware

Citrix Systems Inc. is apparently plotting 彷佛正在謀劃anentry into converged infrastructure 融合式基礎架構thatcould catch rival VMware Inc. off guard猝不及防 in the race to the software-defined data center. The company showed its hand on Monday by acquiring Sanbolic Inc.to fill the missing storage element of its ambitious strategy雄心戰略.

Citrix彷佛正在謀劃進入融合式基礎架構(Converged Infrastructure)以遇上其競爭對手VMware。在這場猝不及防的軟件定義數據中心比賽中，Citrix在本週一宣佈了其對Sanbolic收購的消息，以填補其在存儲方面的雄心戰略。

Sanbolic has developed a platform thatenables organizations to aggregate different siloswhere they keep their data into a unified pool.That blunts削弱/下降 the impact ofindividual hardware failures, effectively removing therisk of information becoming unavailable in the event of a localized outage局部停機.

Sanbolic開發了一個能夠容許用戶彙集不一樣數據豎井的平臺，這樣用戶能夠將他們的數據放置在一個看似統一的池中。這樣能夠極大地下降因爲某個個體硬件損壞形成的影響，有效地消除了局部停機形成的信息風險。

Consolidating multiplesystems under the same interface also has the advantageof sparing節省 practitioners從業者from having to learn the nuances細微之處 of eachstorage solution in their environment and then navigatingaround compatibility issues every time data needs moving. That can provevaluable in the typical enterprise setting, where the most importantinformation is often locked away in legacy arrays.

經過統一的操做界面管理多樣化的系統，這節省了IT管理人員瞭解和掌握他們環境所存在的各類不一樣存儲方案以及對於每次數據修改所致使的各類圍繞着兼容性問題的解決的時間。這可以證實其在大多數企業中的價值，由於有許多重要的信息經常被阻滯在舊有磁盤陣列當中。

But the main focus forSanbolic since introducing the fifth release of its platform in 2013 has been direct-attached storage, the flash and disk drives inthe converged appliances that have swept through席捲/橫掃 the enterprise over recent years. And therein lies那一點就是···theprimary motivation behind the acquisition,according to Wikibon co-founder Dave Vellante.

2013年Sanbolic對其平臺第五次更新已經將其重點放置在了聚合直連存儲（direct-attached storage）、閃存以及磁盤驅動，這些存儲類型今年來席捲了企業市場，這就是這次收購背後的主要動因。

Citrix has certifiedits flagship desktop virtualizationsoftware for integrated systems from a wide range ofvendors including emerging players suchas Nutanix Inc. and more established names such as Cisco Systems Inc. and HP,but VMware is taking it a step further. Thecompany recently introduced a homegrown appliance that layers aninternally-developed management stack on partner-supplied hardware.

思傑已經對其旗艦的桌面虛擬化軟件產品與大量廠商進行了聯合驗證，這也包括衆多的新興的技術公司如Nutanix，同時，與一些廠商共同發佈了聯合解決方案，如思科、惠普等，但VMware在此方面依舊有很長的路要走。該公司最近還提出了一個基於其合做夥伴硬件開發的內部管理堆棧。

With the addition of外加the software-defined storage functionality from Sanbolic, Citrix nowpossesses 持有/控制 most of the necessary components to buildits own converged infrastructure platform. Such a solution would presumably大概；推測起來；可假定seethe technology bundled with the company’sopen-source hypervisor, networking software and perhapseven或許更/甚至CloudStackto form a potentially formidable threat toVMware’s vision for the software-defined data center.

加上Sanbolic所帶來的軟件定義存儲功能，思傑現已具有大多數構建融合基礎架構所必須的組件去構建思傑本身的融合系統。咱們能夠在將來預見這些組合將融合進入思傑所擁有的開源虛擬化平臺、網絡相關軟件或甚至是CloudStack，這對於VMware所倡導的軟件定義數據中心來講是一個潛在的競爭威脅。

Of course, that won’tsit particularly well with Citrix’s storage and converged infrastructurepartners, which the acquisition risks outright alienating. But that’s a price that that thecompany is apparently willing to pay in order to match the EMC subsidiary oninfrastructure. No financial terms were disclosed for the deal.

這天然對於思傑現有的存儲和融合基礎架構合做夥伴來講不是一件好消息。該公司沒有披露交易的財務條款