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.
Citrix ShareFile provides secure and easy-to-use file exchange and data storage for your business. With your custom-branded, password-protected ShareFile site, you can share large files with clients and coworkers, from any computer or mobile device. No fax. No FTP. No software to download. See why 99% of Fortune 500 companies are using ShareFile and start your free trial today at http://www.ShareFile.com. The ShareFile service has won numerous awards, including CNET’s WebWare 100 and Enterprise Product of the Year from...
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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