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Virsto Storage Hypervisor Adds Support for Citrix XenDesktop
Company Introduces Beta of Virsto for XenDesktop on vSphere; First VM-Centric Storage Hypervisor Changes Economics of Virtual Desktop Storage
May. 9, 2012 10:00 AM
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/09/12 -- Citrix Synergy 2012 - Virsto® Software, an innovative provider of VM-centric storage hypervisor software, announced that it is deepening its commitment to Citrix desktop virtualization solutions with the release of a beta program for Citrix® XenDesktop® on vSphere. The integration of Virsto's purpose-built storage hypervisor for virtual machines (VMs) with Citrix XenDesktop delivers dramatic savings on storage in virtual desktop deployments with accelerated provisioning and simplified management of thousands of virtual desktops.
A close partner of Citrix, Microsoft and VMware, Virsto has established a proven track record of virtual machine storage innovation. Its ability to help organizations reap the full benefits of server virtualization with increased I/O performance and dramatically lower storage costs has proven especially well-suited to removing the severe I/O bottlenecks and delivering accelerated provisioning for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
Just as the hypervisor did for servers, Virsto delivers new levels of efficiency, affordability and agility for storage in virtualized environments with its storage hypervisor software. Traditionally, provisioning storage in virtualized environments requires a choice between production-level performance and efficient storage capacity consumption. With its hypervisor-agnostic, software approach to VM storage, only Virsto combines performance and efficiency to fundamentally transform the economics of storage for VMs.
Virsto changes the economics of XenDesktop deployments
With the release of Virsto for XenDesktop on vSphere, Virsto is changing the economics of XenDesktop deployments by lowering the storage costs per desktop by more than 50 percent while providing performance gains of up to 10x, storage utilization gains of up to 10x, and ease of virtual desktop provisioning and patching.
Organizations already using XenDesktop can take advantage of Virsto's unique virtual storage architecture -- a software-only storage hypervisor -- while using native Citrix desktop management workflows. This is because Virsto seamlessly integrates into existing workflows, presenting high performance, space-efficient storage that is instantly provisioned and fully supports high availability features like failover, using any block-based storage already in the environment.
Virsto for XenDesktop on vSphere delivers:
- Native support for vSphere 4.1 and 5.0
- Transparent integration with existing VM management tools and preservation of existing workflows
- Virsto's Rapid Deployment Utility supports deployment, update and recovery workflows for any existing desktop machine types
- Ability to improve storage throughput by a factor of 10 through a unique software architecture that supports any underlying block-based and/or SSD storage
- Reduced capital expenditures (CAPEX) with more than double the desktop density per host, without requiring any additional disk array, SSD, or memory purchases
- Reduced operational expenditures (OPEX) with full integration into standard provisioning processes with no retraining costs
- Advanced yet easy-to-use storage management features including VM storage self-provisioning, automated storage space reclamation, thin provisioning, and tiering of golden master and user data volumes
- Virsto vSnaps and vClones: the industry's most scalable, highest-performance snapshots and writable clones, delivering unprecedented rapid provisioning and granular backup and recovery
Pricing and Availability
Virsto for XenDesktop on vSphere is available now in beta. The product will be generally available in Q3 of 2012. For pricing and additional information, or to join the beta, please visit http://virsto.com/try/virsto-xendesktop-beta
Supporting Quotes
"Virsto integration with XenDesktop has been a loudly enunciated customer demand. Virsto has enjoyed a strong partnership with Citrix for years, and today we are pleased to expand our support for Citrix' industry leading virtual desktop solutions. Virsto now integrates with all of the major VDI platforms and hypervisors, with persistent or non-persistent desktops, giving customers the highest performing and most efficient storage utilization for virtual machines."
--Mark Davis, CEO, Virsto
"For successful, scalable desktop virtualization, customers need access to optimized storage solutions. Virsto is developing a solid approach that allows customers to manage storage costs for XenDesktop deployments running on vSphere, while ensuring that users get the high-definition user experience they've come to expect from XenDesktop."
--Kevin Strohmeyer, director of product marketing, Enterprise Desktops and Applications, Citrix
"Virsto represents an innovative approach to delivering higher performance and better utilization of storage capacity in virtualized environments with simplified management of storage resources for virtual machines. New approaches like this are changing the economics of storage for virtual desktop and server environments. Introducing Virsto on XenDesktop extends the company's ability to deliver differentiated solutions to both of the leading VDI brokers in the market."
--Deni Connor, founding analyst, StorageStrategies Now
Editor's note: Attending Citrix Synergy 2012 next week? Please stop by Virsto booth #705 for a demo and product overview.
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About Virsto
Virsto Software delivers the industry's first VM-centric storage hypervisor, changing the economics of storage in virtualized environments. Virsto improves storage utilization by up to 90 percent, increases performance by up to 10x, and accelerates VM storage provisioning by more than 99 percent. Virsto reduces the cost and complexity of storage for VDI, test and development, tier I application virtualization, cloud computing and other virtualization initiatives. Founded in 2007, Virsto is backed by leading Silicon Valley venture firms. For more information, visit www.virsto.com.
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