NetApp Acquires CloudJumper
VDI and remote desktop services company
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on April 30, 2020 at 2:23 pmNetApp, Inc. acquired CloudJumper Corp., a cloud software company in the VDI and remote desktop services (RDS) markets.
As a result of the acquisition, the new NetApp Virtual Desktop Service (VDS) will solve the challenging problems of virtual desktop services and application management, allowing customers to deploy, manage, monitor and optimize those environments as a solution from a single company on the public cloud of their choice.
“The ability to provide a consistent virtual desktop experience at scale while keeping data available and secure without sacrificing performance has always been important and is especially critical in today’s unprecedented environment,” said Anthony Lye, SVP and GM of NetApp’s cloud data services business unit. “NetApp and CloudJumper provide a simplified management platform for delivering VDI, storage and data management across Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud with best in class virtual desktop management combined with best in class storage and data services.”
CloudJumper gives customers a simple and secure path to the future by managing current environments – often on-premises or using older technologies such as RDS – in addition to the environment the market is moving to – cloud hosted desktops using Windows Virtual Desktops (WVD). NetApp VDS provides CloudJumper’s customers resilient storage with enterprise features including performance, HA, global file caching, backup, compliance and capabilities to help move business operations to the cloud.
NetApp VDS will be available on NetApp Cloud Central and integrated with Azure NetApp Files and Cloud Volumes.
In addition, NetApp will add resources to the existing CloudJumper channel partner program enhancing the capabilities of MSP, VAR, SI and ISV partners to solve customer challenges.
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Based in Garner, NC, CloudJumper is not in storage but has a 20-year history in the application and desktop vistualization technology, and without raising any VC money.
Its founder, Al Cinelli, had the vision of a connected cloud workspace - before the concept of cloud was fully developed. As his companies laid fiber optics connecting cities, he understood that applications and desktops could be served from remote datacenters. He went about looking for CloudJumper who could bring about this vision.
Its president from 2016 to 2020, John David (JD) Helms, was formerly president of nGenx, in hosted virtual desktop and cloud-based application delivery. He has just been nominated VP of modern workspace for NetApp.
The company started with a simple UI which overlays the cloud environment and allows to deploy, manage, maintain and optimize remote desktop and application workspaces - without coding or PowerShell.
Cloud Workspace for Azure and Windows Virtual Desktop integration
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Its software solution, called Cloud Workspace Management Suite (CWMS), is a VDI and RDS alternative to Citrix and VMware.
It is cloud-agnostic and support Microsoft Azure, Google, AWS and regional cloud providers, as well as complex hybrid technologies.
It solves the challenging adoption problems of remote desktop and application digital workspaces.
Whether it's known as VDI, unified workspace, DaaS, WaaS, desktop virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure, WVD, RDS, remote applications, virtualized applications, or other industry nomenclatures, CloudJumper said to support thousands of customers running tens of thousands of applications.
That's its 23th acquisition in 21 years, including 9 with price not revealed, as for CloudJumper, when amount is not significant for NetApp financial results.
| Mo. | Year | Acquired company | Price in $ million | Business of acquired company |
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| 7 | 2000 | Orca Systems | 71 | Virtual interface (VI) architecture | ||
| 9 | 2000 | WebManage Technologies | 75 | WebManage writes software for caching Web pages | ||
| 7 | 2003 | Auspex (patents of) | 9 | NAS | ||
| 12 | 2003 | Spinnaker Networks | 306 | NAS and distributed file system | ||
| 5 | 2005 | Alacritus | 11 | VTL software | ||
| 7 | 2005 | Decru | 272 | Encryption/decryption appliance | ||
| 11 | 2006 | Topio | 160 | Asynchronous replication to multiple locations | ||
| 1 | 2008 | Onaro | 120 | Solutions management and control of storage networks (SRM) | ||
| 4 | 2010 | Bycast | NA | Object-based storage software | ||
| 1 | 2011 | Akorri | 60 | Software monitoring storage and server resources | ||
| 3 | 2011 | LSI (Engenio) | 480 | Storage disk subsystems | ||
| 11 | 2012 | Cache IQ | 100 | Intelligent caching solutions for file-based storage | ||
| 2 | 2013 | ionGrid | NA | iOS solution to secure mobile access to enterprise content, applications and data behind firewall | ||
| 10 | 2014 | Riverbed (assets) | 80 | SteelStore product line | ||
| 1 | 2015 | HvNAS | NA | Small Australian independent developer of SMB 3/2 for Linux | ||
| 12 | 2015 | SolidFire | 870 | All-flash system | ||
| 5 | 2017 | Plexistor | NA | Software that turns off-the-shelf servers into high-performance converged infrastructure offerings with persistent memory technologies | ||
| 5 | 2017 | Immersive Partner Solutions | NA | Cloud-based converged infrastructure monitoring and compliance | ||
| 8 | 2017 | GreenQloud | NA | Iceland software company in Qstack hybrid cloud management software | ||
| 9 | 2018 | StackPointCloud | NA | Multi-cloud Kubernetes control plane with cloud volumes to accelerate DevOps capabilities | ||
| 5 | 2019 | Cognigo | 70 | Platform for data protection and adapting it to privacy regulations such as GDPR, using AI technology and natural language processing | ||
| 3 | 2020 | Talon | NA | Software-defined storage solutions | ||
| 4 | 2020 | CloudJumper | NA | Cloud software in VDI and remote desktop services | ||
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