M&A Deal Summary

Citrix Acquires Kaviza

On May 23, 2011, Citrix acquired internet software and services company Kaviza

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Citrix’s 3rd transaction in the Internet Software and Services sector.
  • This is Citrix’s 14th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Citrix’s 9th transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2011-05-23
Target Kaviza
Sector Internet Software and Services
Buyer(s) Citrix
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Kaviza

Cupertino, California, United States
Kaviza, Inc. an all-in-one “VDI-in-a-Box” solution for small and medium business. Kaviza VDI-in-a-Box gives SMB customers everything they need to “go virtual” with VDI in a single, easy-to-deploy software virtual appliance.

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Buyer

Citrix

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Category Company
Founded 1989
Sector Software
Revenue 3.2B USD (2020)
DESCRIPTION
Citrix System's corporate headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Citrix System's corporate headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Citrix develops and sells products and services that enable the secure and reliable delivery of applications and data over public, private, or hybrid clouds or networks, to virtually any type of device. The Company markets and licenses its products directly to customers, over the Web, and through systems integrators, or SIs, in addition, to indirectly through value-added resellers, or VARs, value-added distributors, or VADs, original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs and service providers. Citrix was established in 1989 and is based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 15 of 40
Sector (Internet Software and Services) 3 of 12
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 15 of 38
State (California) 9 of 19
Country (United States) 14 of 33
Year (2011) 1 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-08-30 VMLogix

Palo Alto, California, United States

VMLogix is a provider of virtualization automation and management technologies. VMLogix provides a management console for cloud deployment, allowing users to automate and manage the provisioning of both internal and external cloud resources.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-07-12 Cloud.com

Cupertino, California, United States

Cloud.com, Inc.,an open source cloud platform player with considerable traction on the side of Telcos, Service providers and even enterprises.

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