Citrix Extends Desktop Virtualization Portfolio with Acquisition of Kaviza
May 23 2011 - 6:00PM
Business Wire
Today, Citrix Systems announced it has closed its acquisition of
Kaviza, makers of the market-leading all-in-one “VDI-in-a-Box”
solution for small and medium business. The acquisition adds a
unique VDI-only solution to the Citrix portfolio — allowing the
company to further expand into the small and medium business market
and accelerate its leadership in desktop virtualization across all
market segments from small organizations to large enterprises. The
Kaviza “VDI-in-a-Box” product complements the market-leading Citrix
XenDesktop® product line for enterprise-class desktop
virtualization.
SMB organizations are adopting desktop virtualization at an
accelerating rate in order to reduce desktop management costs,
improve security and increase business agility. In fact, Gartner
research shows that hosted virtual desktops have become the number
two driver of new server purchases in SMBs across both North
America and EMEA, and number four in Asia Pacific.1 However, many
small to medium businesses who are constantly under pressure to do
more with less have been hesitant to adopt VDI in the past given
the relative cost and complexity of deploying enterprise-class
products in an SMB environment. Unlike other VDI products targeted
at SMBs, Kaviza VDI-in-a-Box is not just a scaled-down enterprise
product with limited functionality, performance and manageability.
Instead, Kaviza offers a highly innovative solution designed from
the ground up to give SMB customers brilliantly simple, low-cost,
“all-in-one” VDI solution purpose-built for their needs.
Kaviza VDI-in-a-Box
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. This "all-in-one" solution simplifies VDI adoption for
SMB customers with an innovative design that requires:
- No separate connection brokers
- No load balancers
- No provisioning servers
- No expensive shared network
storage
Kaviza VDI-in-Box:
- Installs quickly and is easy to manage
- A single all-in-one virtual appliance enables the full production
deployment of virtual desktops in two hours or less. Additional
servers can be deployed and connected to the grid in minutes. A
simple administrator interface makes moves, adds and changes
simple.
- Delivers a high-definition user
experience with HDX™ - Citrix HDX technology delivers high
performance and complete virtual desktop capabilities to any
device, or any network, while minimizing bandwidth
requirements.
- Utilizes simple, cost-effective
infrastructure to provide a high return on investment - The grid
architecture delivers a highly available solution with fewer
servers than traditional VDI solutions and no shared storage or
management servers.
- Provides flexibility and choice -- The
open architecture provides multi-hypervisor support for Citrix
XenServer(R) and VMware ESX, with Microsoft Hyper-V support coming
soon.
Citrix Synergy
Citrix Synergy™ attendees will have the opportunity to
experience the Kaviza VDI-in-a-Box offering at Citrix Synergy 2011
in San Francisco, May 25-27.
Supporting Quotes
“Kaviza understands the needs of small and medium businesses and
has made great strides in giving these types of organizations a
simple, low-cost solution for virtual desktops. The Kaviza team and
the innovative technology they have built will add significant
value to our desktop virtualization product line as more and more
SMBs adopt virtual desktops, and it will help us drive continued
growth and market leadership in desktop virtualization,” said
Gordon Payne, senior vice president and general manager, Desktop
Division at Citrix.
“The union of Kaviza and Citrix is a natural fit that will
benefit our customers and channel partners. We founded Kaviza and
created “VDI-in-a-Box” specifically for small and medium customers
whose needs have been underserved by existing solutions. By joining
Citrix, we will be able to leverage the benefits of increased
investment, global presence and a large channel footprint. This
represents a win for small and medium-sized businesses that want to
adopt desktop virtualization across their organizations,” said
Kumar K. Goswami, co-founder and CEO, Kaviza.
“For several years, clients have requested all-in-one server
appliances to meet the desktop virtualization needs of their small
offices and branch offices. In 2009, I called on the vendor
community to meet this requirement and several responded. Here we
are, two years later, and there is a bigger need due to the growth
in desktop virtualization. Without question, low-cost desktop
virtualization in-a-box solutions extend the operational, security
and TCO benefits common in large-scale virtual desktop deployments
to the small or branch office,” said Chris Wolf, research VP,
Gartner.
"We partner with Citrix, Microsoft and Kaviza, and we are very
excited by the new opportunities this creates both for customers
and for our company. VDI-in-a-box is game-changing with its
simplicity and affordability, and now with the support of Citrix,
it becomes a no-brainer," said Brian Bradley, VP business
development, Blue-Chip Consulting, LLC.
Availability
Customers can continue to purchase VDI-in-a-box from Kaviza
resellers. Starting July 1, 2011 customers will also be able to buy
from Citrix Solution Advisors.
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on-demand service. Founded in 1989, Citrix combines virtualization,
networking, and cloud computing technologies into a full portfolio
of products that enable virtual workstyles for users and virtual
datacenters for IT. More than 230,000 organizations worldwide rely
on Citrix to help them build simpler and more cost-effective IT
environments. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies in more
than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2010 was $1.87 billion.
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1 Gartner: Table 2: Ranking of Server Project Priority Rating
Through 2010, User Survey Analysis: Hosted Virtual Desktops Set to
Grow Server Demand for SMBs, 16 March 2011
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