Citrix Unveils New Software Solutions for Converged Infrastructure to Streamline Delivery of Modern Workspaces
January 13 2015 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Introducing the first Citrix WorkspacePod™
Powered by HP with Integrated Compute, Storage and Networking,
delivering Breakthrough Price, Performance and Flexibility
Citrix today announced Citrix WorkspacePod™, a fully integrated
software solution for delivering modern workspaces, leveraging the
recently acquired software-defined storage capability from
Sanbolic. In collaboration with technology partners, Citrix is
developing pre-packaged offerings that include integrated compute,
storage and networking to reduce the cost and complexity for
delivering applications including: Windows, Web and Linux.
Customers and partners can use WorkspacePods to deploy workspace
solutions that scale to thousands of users with superior,
predictable performance and to deliver the high-quality intuitive
end user experience that has become a Citrix hallmark. A
WorkspacePod technical preview will be available in Q1 2015.
While server and software licensing costs are well known,
storage cost and complexity remains one of the top barriers for VDI
and application delivery adoption. Citrix WorkspacePods address
that issue by enabling a simple and scalable converged
infrastructure at a breakthrough price per user in the mobile
workspace market, consolidating existing on-premise or cloud
storage infrastructure and dramatically reducing the time to value
for workspace deployments.
Citrix uniquely provides technology partners with the freedom to
leverage their one-of-a-kind performance and configuration
advantages to offer differentiated solutions that deliver mobile
workspaces. The WorkspacePods can be deployed as standalone or in a
mesh configuration within a data center as well as in remote
regional or branch offices, enabling customers to deliver rich apps
and desktops that can scale out to thousands of users with built-in
high availability and enterprise-grade storage capabilities.
Citrix Summit Demonstration Showcases WorkspacePod Powered by
HP
Today at Citrix Summit in Las Vegas, Citrix introduced the first
WorkspacePod Powered by HP. This uniquely integrates Citrix
workspace infrastructure software with HP’s Moonshot platform and
the HP ProLiant SL4540 server integrating compute, storage and
networking, delivering rich apps and desktops with exceptional
price, performance and flexibility. The advantages include:
- Hardware savings up to 40
percent – compared to traditional SAN based architectures.
- Multiple times greater user density
per rack with significant energy savings – offering three times
the user density per rack at less than one watt per user.
- High performance networking –
that includes integrated 40 gigabyte switching between compute and
storage.
- Superior graphics performance –
with integrated CPU/GPU to support rich applications and desktops
with motion graphics and server-rendered video.
- Redundancy and availability –
providing a fully redundant and highly available system for
infrastructure, storage and workloads.
As part of the technology preview, HP, Citrix and channel
partners will be providing the Citrix WorkspacePod powered by HP to
customers for POCs in 1H 2015. Additional WorkspacePod offerings
targeting branch and regional office deployments from Citrix
technology partners will be forthcoming.
Quotes
Mark Peters, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy
Group
“Just as businesses themselves need increased agility, so they
also need to be able to reliably and cost effectively scale their
information systems to handle the increase in dynamic and variable
IT demands that inevitably result; and they need confidence that
the technology will just work. The logic and attraction of – as
well as demand for – more technologies that are integrated and work
as converged systems, is clear and growing. Pre-integrated systems
can enable CIOs to more quickly adapt to these changing demands
with predictable performance and costs; advantages that will become
requirements as the market continues to mature.”
Tyrone Pike, Vice President, Market Development,
Citrix
“While we’ve made great strides in simplifying session, app and
desktop delivery management, we see tremendous market demand for
offerings that reduce the infrastructure cost and complexity for
workspace delivery. Citrix WorkspacePod solutions provide create
simplified architectures that streamline and accelerate workspace
deployments at an attractive per-user price.”
Paul Santeler, Vice President and General Manager, Moonshot,
HP
“HP ProLiant Moonshot and Citrix offer solutions that deliver
tremendous value for businesses deploying mobile workspaces,
providing the compelling application experience demanded by today’s
mobile workforce. The technology demonstration at Citrix Summit
today is proof positive that our strong partnership with Citrix
will continue to excite our customers.”
Related Links
- Citrix WorkspacePod™ Powered by HP
- Announcement: Citrix Acquires
Sanbolic
- Whitepaper: Citrix WorkspacePod Powered
by HP Moonshot Technical Overview
- HP Blog: Taking “Converged” to “Ultra”
Converged With the New Citrix WorkspacePod Powered by HP
Moonshot
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virtualization, mobility management, networking and cloud services
to enable new ways to work better. Citrix solutions power business
mobility through secure, personal workspaces that provide people
with instant access to apps, desktops, data and communications on
any device, over any network and cloud. With annual revenue in 2013
of $2.9 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more than 330,000
organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Learn more at
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