2 February 2012
New EMC Virtual Storage Integrator Plug-in for XenDesktop Simplifies Mapping and Management of EMC Storage
Cisco Live London 2012 – January 30, 2012
News Highlights:
EMC Proven™ solution leverages EMC VNX™ unified storage capabilities to provide a robust, flexible and cost-effective solution for Citrix XenDesktop 1000 users. By utilizing a building-block approach the solution can then scale to thousands of virtual desktops.
Tight integration between XenDesktop and the VNX storage platform provides full NFS support as well as an optimized desktop solution to meet customer’s unique requirements.
New EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) plug-in provides customers the ability to easily deploy XenDesktop and EMC VNX storage.
Full Story:
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) extends its leadership position in virtualization today by announcing 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 with Citrix 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.
Through tight integration with XenApp, a key component of XenDesktop, the new solution can leverage compression and replication on the EMC VNX to centralize management of the applications and improve storage utilization. This provides customers with a flexible desktop solution optimized to meet their unique requirements.
The new EMC Solution for XenDesktop is built upon the EMC VNX unified storage systems with advanced flash technology which provides customers flexibility, choice and control as they support virtual desktop provisioning. Customers can optimize and manage their infrastructure with the assurance that EMC storage will perform and scale to meet their specific needs. EMC FAST Cache technology delivers the IOPS required to exceed a customer’s virtual desktop SLAs and ensure maximum performance to easily scale without incurring the power, space and acquisition costs associated with a large storage array.
To demonstrate the performance benefits of EMC FAST Suite, which includes EMC FAST VP technology and EMC FAST Cache, the new solution was tested under various workloads including Boot Storms, Anti-virus scans, Patch installs and response times. A login storm of 1000 users showed an average session start time of as low as 5 seconds. The login test generated over 11,000 IOPS from the storage repository with system cache and EMC FAST Cache absorbing almost all of the I/O. Moreover, the EMC VNX system required only thirty SAS drives and two flash drives to achieve these results which are less than half the drives needed to achieve similar results in a comparable competitive configuration.
Partner Quotes:
Satinder Sethi, Vice President, Data Center Solutions, Server Access and Virtualization Technology Group, Cisco
“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
“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.”
David Linzy, CEO, LPS Integration
“EMC has absolutely hit the mark with its virtual desktop solution for mixed Citrix XenAPP and Citrix XenDesktop environments. We have several customers who have deployed this solution and they are already seeing the positive results. Infrastructure is the major component to successful Citrix VDI deployment and EMC has helped us to be successful every time.”
EMC Executive Quote:
Parmeet Chaddha, Vice President, Solutions Group, EMC
“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.”
Additional Resources:
View Top Five Reasons Why Customers Deploy Citrix XenDesktop on EMC VNX Unified Storage
Learn more details about the new EMC Proven Solution for Citrix XenDesktop
Read about Citrix Executive Briefing Center: Enabled by EMC Unified Storage and Citrix XenDesktop
Connect with EMC via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn
About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.
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16 November 2011
NASHVILLE, TN–(Marketwire -11/16/11)- LPS Integration, IT solutions provider headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, announced today that it is expanding operations and moving into three new states and is opening a new office in Atlanta, Georgia. New territories include Kentucky, Alabama and Mississippi.
This news follows on the heels of recent awards and achievements, including awards from Citrix Systems Inc. as US Partner of the Year for 2010 and Southeast Partner of the Year in both 2009 and 2010; the prestigious EMC Velocity Services Quality (VSQ) award — which is based on superior client satisfaction surveys; and LPS took the number one spot on the Nashville Business Journal’s Top 25 Fastest-Growing, Private Companies award in September based on a staggering 318.41% revenue growth over three years. LPS was also ranked # 996 on Inc. 5000′s list of fastest growing private companies in the US.
“The decision to expand into surrounding states is part of an overall strategic, corporate plan and the timing is right as businesses are shifting to virtual and cloud-based infrastructures,” says Frank Pulliza, VP of Operations and owner of LPS Integration. “The biggest challenge we’ve had to overcome has been finding top engineering talent to support the additional territories. We place high demands on our engineers and expect them to meet the highest standards in the industry. And, because the technology is new, we must hire strong engineers and train them in-house to build up their skills even further in newer technologies.”
A ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled for December 1, 2011 at 9:30 am with Greater Louisville Inc. and representatives of the Mayor’s office at the Marriott in downtown Louisville, KY. LPS is hosting a complementary IT seminar following the ceremony from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm for area businesses.
About LPS Integration, Inc.
LPS Integration, Inc. is an IT engineering and consulting firm, specializing in data center solutions, including Virtualization, Networking and Storage. LPS Integration is headquartered in Nashville and covers the entire Southeastern region.
LPS Integration is professional, cost-effective, and accessible around the clock to ensure the greatest productivity and success for our clients. Using our comprehensive assessment strategy, we work to improve and optimize our clients’ infrastructures, processes, and procedures while lowering their overall costs. Business services include hardware and software sales and support, licensing consulting, maintenance and renewals management, IT recruiting and staffing services, managed services, and we offer Microsoft and Citrix technical training at our corporate offices in Nashville, TN. For more information, visit us online at www.lpsintegration.com or call us toll free at 1 (866)577-2902.
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13 November 2011
SAN JOSE and SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Oct. 12, 2011 – Cisco and Citrix Systems today announced that they have entered into a strategic alliance to develop and deliver solutions that help customers simplify and accelerate large-scale desktop virtualization deployments. Through this alliance, Cisco and Citrix will drive innovations that simplify the deployment of high-definition virtual desktops and applications and improve end-user experiences over a highly secure Citrix HDX™-enabled Cisco® network. The companies will also continue to enhance and build upon their data center solutions and cloud technologies to help accelerate deployment of cloud services.
As the industry transitions from the PC era to the cloud era where mobile work forces need to access media-rich applications from any device, anywhere, anytime, enterprises are turning to desktop virtualization to give them the benefits of the security, flexibility and cost-savings by delivering desktops and applications as a centralized service. Innovative solutions like Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) with Citrix XenDesktop® span desktop virtualization, networking, datacenter, multimedia and endpoint devices to support customers through this transition.
Delivering Virtual Desktops Services Anywhere, Anytime on Any Device
Combining Cisco leadership in networking, datacenter, endpoint devices and collaboration, with Citrix leadership in virtualization and the delivery of desktops, applications and data, this alliance is aimed at delivering solutions that help enterprises easily and cost effectively deploy virtual desktops to millions of PCs, Macs, tablets, smartphones and thin clients. This alliance will also deliver data center solutions that make it easier for organizations to deploy the infrastructure required to deliver IT as a service across multiple networks and geographies. Cisco and Citrix are committed to collaborating and exploring innovative new technology integrations in key areas such as:
- Enhancing Cisco networking products with full support for Citrix HDX Technology: The companies are committed to supporting Citrix HDX technology in targeted Cisco industry-leading networking solutions to deliver an enhanced high-definition experience for users of Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp™ solutions.
As the first result of the strategic alliance agreement, Cisco will deliver a new release of Cisco Wide Area Application Services™ (WAAS) optimized for Citrix XenDesktop and Citrix HDX technology in the fourth quarter of this year. Announced today as part of the next phase of Cisco’s VXI, an open, validated virtual workspace solution, WAAS will further enhance the performance of virtual desktops and applications over Cisco networking infrastructure (see related announcement).
- Enhanced device and integrated multimedia support: Cisco and Citrix will collaborate to deliver an optimized user experience for virtual desktops and applications for Cisco endpoint devices. This will include collaboration across Cisco rich media, voice, video and collaboration endpoint devices such as the Cisco VirtualExperience Clients (VXCs) and the Cisco Cius™ enterprise tablet – with the virtual desktop and application capabilities of Citrix XenDesktop, and the Citrix Receiver™ universal software client.
- Accelerating Datacenter Innovation with Cisco UCS, Citrix XenDesktop and Citrix XenServer: Over the past year, Cisco and Citrix have been bringing the reality of virtual desktop computing to our customers. With the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS™) extended memory and Unified Fabric Cisco and Citrix virtual desktop solutions, the companies deliver the industry’s highest virtual desktop densities and best performance available on the market today. Building on this success, the companies will continue to extend the collaboration to drive further design validation and optimization enhancements with Cisco UCS and XenDesktop and Citrix XenServer®.
Joint Go-To-Market Investment
In addition, the two companies will invest in joint go-to-market activities that will focus on driving primary product and services demand in high growth market areas such as desktop virtualization and cloud markets.
During Citrix Synergy in Barcelona taking place on October25 – 27, Cisco will be showcasing the first deliverables of this strategic alliance and other VXI solutions at the Cisco stand # 204.
Joint Customer Success Fuels Expanded Collaboration
Early successes of the companies’ collaboration around desktop virtualization are evident with Seattle Children’s Hospital and University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
- The University of Tennessee at Knoxville selected Citrix XenDesktop running on Cisco
infrastructure to provide free, anytime access to desktops, applications, resources and personal files to more than 27,000 students. (Link to the announcement)
- To provide a faster, more mobile and fully transparent computing experience for its practitioners, Seattle Children’s Hospital recently selected hosted virtual desktops powered by Citrix XenDesktop and the Cisco Unified Computing System. Today, nearly 5,500 workstations have been transitioned throughout the hospital. (Link to case study)
Supporting Quotes
Phil Sherburne, vice president, Enterprise Systems and Architectures, Cisco
“Cisco is collaborating with Citrix on a broad range of virtualization technologies. Our first deliverables will be focused on giving end users a rich multimedia experience of voice, video and data on their virtual desktops and apps over the Cisco Intelligent Network, so that from any device from wherever they are, IT managers can deliver the same superior experience at a lower cost.”
Bob Schultz, group vice president and general manager, Enterprise Desktops and Apps group at Citrix
“Citrix and Cisco have completed the first year of a very successful collaboration in desktop virtualization that has helped to expand the market and accelerate the success of customers worldwide. This expanded agreement will lay the groundwork to deliver a wide range of market-leading, integrated solutions that allow customers to embrace consumerization and deliver IT services with unparalleled efficiency and impact.”
11 October 2011
EMC Awarded For Delivering Most Simple, Efficient and Affordable Unified Storage Designed for SMBs
HOPKINTON, Mass. – October 6, 2011
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced that the EMC® VNXe® unified storage solution won CRN’s 2011 Tech Innovator award in the storage category. The award honors new products or solutions introduced within the last year that drive advances in technology to the channel. Companies on this exclusive list recently implemented innovative methods to bridge the gap between current challenges and solutions facing channel executives today.
The Tech Innovator recognition is the latest in a series of channel-related accolades EMC has received. In August 2011 CRN named EMC “Company of the Year” in three ARC award categories – SMB Network Storage, Enterprise Network Storage and Backup & Recovery Software. This was EMC’s first-ever inclusion and recognition in the SMB Network Storage category, a direct result of the VNXe launch in January and successful channel-centric go-to-market strategy for it. In February EMC’s Gregg Ambulos, Senior Vice President of Global Channel Sales, was named a Channel Chief by CRN for his leadership of EMC’s global go-to-market strategy for Velocity™ solution provider and distribution partners, including implementing several new programs that provide opportunities for partners to increase their profitability through more efficient and cost-effective training and the ability to deliver more value-added services.
CRN selected EMC VNXe, available only through EMC Velocity Solution Provider Program partners, as the most innovative storage technology for its ground-breaking design that delivers the world’s most simple, efficient and affordable unified storage for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB) and the IT generalist. The VNXe is the result of a multi-year development effort to design a product that specifically meets the needs of customers who require a cost effective solution with robust features. With an entry price of less than $10,000 (USD), its small form factor, management simplicity, unified multi-protocol architecture, and application aware management deliver the ideal consolidation/virtualization storage solution for SMB environments and those in the mid-market and enterprise where IT generalists need solid storage solutions.
EMC VNXe provides customers with:
- Breakthrough Simplicity
- Powerful application-based provisioning wizards, including support for Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware vSphere. Provisioning storage for 500 mailboxes or 100 gigabytes of virtual server storage can be done in less than 10 clicks.
- 4X faster to provision and protect SharePoint versus standard tools for Microsoft administrators
- Increased Efficiency
- Compact 2U and 3U packaging fits almost any environment.
- Built-in data protection, including replication.
Advanced efficiency features including thin provisioning, file deduplication, and compression reduce disk space used by up-to 50 percent.
Supporting Quotes
“NORTHSTAR Trade Finance Inc. supports Canadian exporters by offering financing to credit worthy buyers of eligible Canadian goods and services, therefore our customer, transactional, and financial data is of critical importance to company operations. We recently replaced our HP storage with the EMC VNXe because we need a well-performing, easy to manage system that can keep pace with our ever-growing data storage requirements. It’s also more innovative and less expensive. We considered Dell, but their management interface isn’t as simple as the VNXe. Since implementing the VNXe we’re seeing almost four times better performance and we have the ability to do things that our previous system wouldn’t allow, such as configuring storage volumes quickly and running one VM per application with no downtime.”
“Not only has EMC made the VNXe unified storage simple, efficient, and affordable for the end user, they’ve put in a lot of consideration to ensure that solution providers are successful when it comes to learning and selling the technology. The VNXe approach is a clear differentiator for EMC as it is an easy to quote, sell, and configure channel-only product.”
“Since EMC delivered VNXe earlier this year, Avnet has seen an increase in the adoption rate by our partners and their end customers. It is a unique product that is affordable as well as easy to use. Avnet’s success with VNXe was also helped by enhancements EMC made to its Velocity Program. That made it easier for Avnet to incorporate Velocity into our own enablement program which supports our partners so they can sell the product with shorter ramp up time and lower investment cost.”
“We’re seeing a lot of demand from SMB companies for simple yet affordable unified storage systems. Whether large or small, organizations must keep up with the enormous amount of data they continue to generate and won’t settle for anything less than what the EMC’s VNXE can deliver. Its innovative features and proven reliability make it a top choice for our customers.”
- Kelley Damore, Vice President, Editorial Director for UBM Channel
“In today’s challenging business environment, it’s more important than ever to discover, nurture and reward new ideas. This year’s Tech Innovator Awards recognizes technology companies that have used original methods or technologies to deliver cutting-edge products and partner support. We congratulate EMC on their success, and applaud them for breaking away from traditional thinking to create completely new and unique channel opportunities.”
EMC Executive Quotes
- Rich Napolitano, President, Unified Storage Division, EMC Corporation
“We are truly honored that CRN has selected the EMC VNXe unified storage as the most innovative storage technology of 2011. Being recognized as a 2011 Tech Innovator is further proof of EMC’s ongoing commitment to providing our Velocity partners with the industry’s most simple, efficient, and affordable unified storage solutions in the market.”
CRN’s 2011 Tech Innovators were nominated by their individual companies, with final selections made by the editors of CRN and the CRN Test Center. More than 250 nominations were reviewed for 18 categories. The Tech Innovator awards were presented on October 5 at the 2011 NexTI Conference at the Doral Resort in Miami, FL.
Expanded coverage of the 2011 Tech Innovators will be featured in the December issue of CRN and online at www.crn.com.
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About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.
UBM plc (www.ubm.com)
UBM plc is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world’s buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries is organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to www.ubm.com
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22 August 2011
LPS Integration announced today that it has earned the position of 996 on the 2011 Inc. 5000, Inc.’s annual ranking of fastest-growing private companies in America. LPS now shares this achievement with other notable alumni such as Intuit, Under Armour, Microsoft, Timberland and Oracle! We are proud of this accomplishment, says CTO Frank Pulliza, and we continue to strive to be the best we can be to serve our clients and community and if that means collecting a few awards along the way, then we are happy to accept them.