Citrix Summit 2015专题 - 思杰收购Sanbolic开启新的融合架构对抗vmware

Citrix acquires Sanbolic to open newconverged infrastructure front against VMware

思杰收购Sanbolic开启新的融合架构对抗vmware

Citrix Systems Inc. is apparently plotting 似乎正在谋划anentry into converged infrastructure 融合式基础架构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雄心战略.

Citrix似乎正在谋划进入融合式基础架构(Converged Infrastructure)以赶上其竞争对手VMware。在这场猝不及防的软件定义数据中心比赛中，Citrix在本周一宣布了其对Sanbolic收购的消息，以填补其在存储方面的雄心战略。

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

Sanbolic开发了一个可以允许用户聚集不同数据竖井的平台，这样用户可以将他们的数据放置在一个看似统一的池中。这样可以极大地降低由于某个个体硬件损坏造成的影响，有效地消除了局部停机造成的信息风险。

Consolidating multiplesystems under the same interface also has the advantageof sparing节省 practitioners从业者from having to learn the nuances细微之处 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.

通过统一的操作界面管理多样化的系统，这节省了IT管理人员了解和掌握他们环境所存在的各种不同存储方案以及对于每次数据修改所导致的各种围绕着兼容性问题的解决的时间。这能够证明其在大多数企业中的价值，因为有许多重要的信息常常被阻滞在旧有磁盘阵列当中。

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席卷/横扫 the enterprise over recent years. And therein lies那一点就是・・・theprimary motivation behind the acquisition,according to Wikibon co-founder Dave Vellante.

2013年Sanbolic对其平台第五次更新已经将其重点放置在了聚合直连存储（direct-attached storage）、闪存以及磁盘驱动，这些存储类型今年来席卷了企业市场，这就是此次收购背后的主要动因。

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.

思杰已经对其旗舰的桌面虚拟化软件产品与大量厂商进行了联合验证，这也包括众多的新兴的技术公司如Nutanix，同时，与一些厂商共同发布了联合解决方案，如思科、惠普等，但VMware在此方面依旧有很长的路要走。该公司最近还提出了一个基于其合作伙伴硬件开发的内部管理堆栈。

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；推测起来；可假定seethe technology bundled with the company’sopen-source hypervisor, networking software and perhapseven或许更/甚至CloudStackto form a potentially formidable threat toVMware’s vision for the software-defined data center.

加上Sanbolic所带来的软件定义存储功能，思杰现已具备大多数构建融合基础架构所必须的组件去构建思杰自己的融合系统。我们可以在未来预见这些组合将融合进入思杰所拥有的开源虚拟化平台、网络相关软件或甚至是CloudStack，这对于VMware所倡导的软件定义数据中心来说是一个潜在的竞争威胁。

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.

这自然对于思杰现有的存储和融合基础架构合作伙伴来说不是一件好消息。该公司没有披露交易的财务条款