EMC Proven solution for Citrix XenDesktop environments announced
EMC Corporation has announced a new EMC Proven solution for Citrix XenDesktop environments. The solution expands EMC's portfolio enabling Citrix customers to accelerate the adoption of virtual desktop infrastructures and realize the benefits of a secure, centrally managed end-user computing environment. The robust, flexible and cost-effective solution built on the EMC VNX unified storage with full NFS support, and the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) platform that has unparalleled desktop density and IO performance provides integrated application streaming and centralized desktop management for 1000 users. The solution utilizes a building-block approach which can then scale to thousands of virtual desktops.
EMC also announced updates to the EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) plug-in, simplifying the task of creating multiple virtual desktop machines and registering them withCitrix XenDesktop. VSI continues to support self service storage provisioning and management across all EMC VNX unified storage platforms. The new integration now provides customers the ability to easily deploy XenDesktop and EMC VNX storage regardless of hypervisor.
Satinder Sethi, Vice President, Data Center Solutions, Server Access & Virtualization Technology Group, Cisco said, "Cisco works closely with industry-leading companies such as Citrix and EMC to accelerate and simplify the adoption of desktop virtualization infrastructure. The industry-leading density of the Cisco UCS combined with EMC VNX unified storage, delivers a highly secure, high- performance and integrated solution delivering a lower cost of ownership for our mutual customers while responding rapidly to changing business needs."
John Fanelli, Vice President of Product Marketing, Enterprise Desktops and Applications group, Citrix said, "Citrix customers are transforming their desktops to enable mobile work styles while improving business agility, flexibility and security. Citrix and EMC are committed to supporting customers in this transformation by providing a simple, secure and robust architecture optimized for this environment."
Parmeet Chaddha, Vice President, Solutions Group, EMC said, "EMC is laser focused on developing and delivering solutions that address our customers most pressing requirements. Our new solution for Citrix XenAPP and XenDesktop demonstrates EMC's virtualization leadership because it is an optimized, simplified and high-performance architecture which seamlessly leverages the advanced functionality inherent to Citrix and EMC VNX unified storage platform."
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