Citrix Dramatically Improves Economics of Desktop Virtualization to Drive Mainstream Adoption
February 04 2010 - 6:44PM
Business Wire
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS) today announced dramatic
improvements in scalability across multiple virtual desktop
delivery models to address the needs of every user in the
enterprise at a significantly lower cost. Citrix XenDesktop™ 4 with
FlexCast™ delivery technology has now been verified to deliver up
to 125 VDI-based desktops, 500 hosted shared desktops and 5,000
local streamed desktops from a single physical server tuned to take
advantage of the unique innovations of the latest Intel® Xeon®
processor™ 5500 technology. These numbers represent orders of
magnitude higher scalability than first generation VDI-only
products, enabling IT organizations to deploy desktop
virtualization solutions enterprise wide with less datacenter
infrastructure and significantly lower operating costs1. The new
scalability data and testing methodology is available today in a
new desktop virtualization reference architecture.
This advancement in virtual desktop scalability is especially
significant because it enables enterprises to deliver virtual
desktops to more users at a far lower cost. “The performance and
consolidation levels achievable by XenDesktop, deployed on Intel®
Xeon® 5500 processor based servers, are significant and
compelling,” said Iddo Kadim, director of virtualization technology
for Intel’s Data Center Group. “When combined with FlexCast
delivery technology to deploy user-attuned desktop virtualization
solutions to the full range of PCs in an enterprise, including rich
desktops and laptops based on the Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor
family, it offers enterprise IT the opportunity to balance cost,
control and flexibility.”
The latest Citrix scalability tests were carefully designed to
use a mainstream server configuration. Desktop workload simulations
incorporated a real-world mix of line-of-business apps, office
productivity apps, web browsing and multimedia. The results
demonstrate that XenDesktop 4 with FlexCast can deliver up to 40
times more users (5,000 per physical server) than competing
solutions which only support VDI-based desktops and max out at just
over 100 users per physical server. This makes XenDesktop the only
solution on the market that can truly deliver enterprise-wide
virtual desktop deployments in a cost-effective way. With
XenDesktop 4, desktop virtualization can now be implemented with 20
percent lower infrastructure costs.
“We are impressed with the hosted virtual desktop
scalability improvements Citrix has achieved with
next-generation technology from Intel,” said Phil Grove,
global director, End User Services at CSC. “With the new Intel
technology in our engineering laboratories,” he added, “we
have seen significant performance improvements in our
CSC Dynamic Desktop offering, which is powered by XenDesktop.
These kinds of Improvements in the economics of desktop
virtualization from Citrix will help our joint customers move
forward with large-scale deployments this year.”
New XenDesktop Reference Architecture Provides Guide for
Large-Scale Deployments
Citrix also made available today a reference architecture for
large-scale deployments that can help guide organizations who are
looking at rolling out virtual desktops to a broad set of users.
The new XenDesktop reference architecture is based on numerous
real-world large-scale XenDesktop implementations, and provides a
baseline model for a modular approach to designing and scaling to
meet the needs of an entire enterprise. It provides a starting
point and a solid understanding of the components and capabilities
of each FlexCast delivery model, enabling customers to assemble a
desktop virtualization architecture that’s tailored to each
environment’s unique needs.
“Citrix continues to push the envelope in technology innovation
in XenDesktop. We’ve doubled the user density for the fastest
growing virtual desktop delivery type using Intel Xeon processors.
And with the release of XenDesktop 4, we are able to drive far
better ROI by providing organizations with a wide variety of
virtual desktop delivery models that can address every use case in
the enterprise. With the flexibility that FlexCast brings to
XenDesktop, along with the improvements in scalability across
delivery models, we are making desktop virtualization ready for
mainstream enterprise-wide adoption,” said Raj Dhingra, group vice
president and general manager of the XenDesktop product group at
Citrix.
The XenDesktop reference architecture and set of guidelines will
be maintained online so that customers can access the latest data.
More information about XenDesktop 4 and the reference architecture
can be found at www.citrix.com/xendesktop.
XenDesktop Product Resources
- XenDesktop Scalability
Guidelines
- XenDesktop product page
- XenDesktop Ask the Architect:
Dan Feller
- XenDesktop Customer of the
Week
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About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of
virtualization, networking and software-as-a-service (SaaS)
technologies for more than 230,000 organizations worldwide. Its
Citrix Delivery Center™, Citrix Cloud Center™ (C3) and Citrix
Online Services product families radically simplify computing for
millions of users, delivering applications as an on-demand service
to any user, in any location on any device. Citrix customers
include the world’s largest Internet companies, 99 percent of
Fortune Global 500 enterprises, and hundreds of thousands of small
businesses and prosumers worldwide. Citrix partners with over
10,000 companies worldwide in more than 100 countries. Founded in
1989, annual revenue in 2008 was $1.6 billion.
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