Atlantis Computing VDI Storage Solution Verified Citrix Ready

Atlantis Computing, Inc., a provider of software-defined storage (SDS) solutions, announced that Atlantis USX has been verified as part of the Citrix Ready VDI Capacity Program for storage partners.

The program is designed specifically to address the storage needs of customers who have already, or are currently, considering implementing VDI.

The Citrix Ready program enables Citrix storage partners to test their solutions against a turnkey ‘VDI Capacity’ environment that contains the compute resources needed to generate a 1,500-user reference deployment. Atlantis tests the Citrix partner solutions using servers with Intel Xeon processors and Intel SSDs. The results from these tests demonstrate the appropriate amount of storage performance and capacity with a cost-efficient design that is verified for 1,500 users.

Atlantis USX, a SDS solution, increases storage performance and capacity to lower the cost of VDI deployments. Atlantis can help organizations simplify VDI by using less hardware and lower storage cost to $86 per virtual desktop for the 1,500 user solution. At the same time IT can deploy a performance desktop capable of delivering 650 IO/s, much faster than a traditional PC. This performance allows all 1,500 desktops to be booted in 12 minutes, while lowering the cost per IO/s to $0.13.

Atlantis is also launching a desktop virtualization best practices guide ebook, co-sponsored by Intel, to provide insights from VDI specialists from the storage and virtualization field. Armed with over 200 tips from 35 experts, IT managers and desktop virtualization professionals can learn best practices to help design, build, configure and maintain successful desktop virtualization solutions.

“As a member of the Citrix Ready program, we were excited to get the opportunity to show the power of integrating Atlantis USX software-defined storage technology with Intel Solid State Drives,” said Seth Knox, VP of product marketing, Atlantis. “The combination of Citrix and Intel technologies clearly showcases how it is possible to drive down the cost of storage while setting new standards for user experience.“

“The storage infrastructure used to deliver Citrix XenDesktop is critical to the user experience, scalability and cost of the entire desktop virtualization deployment,” said Jim Luna, senior director, global platform alliances, Citrix. “Atlantis and Intel have demonstrated the ability to deliver a tremendous combination of a low storage cost and scalability, while at the same time providing a user experience that outperforms physical PCs.“

“VDI is a write heavy workload that demands the performance, low latency and durability offered by Intel Solid State Drives,” said Chuck Brown, PhD, SSD storage architect, Intel’s non-volatile memory solutions group. “With Atlantis USX data reduction technology running on servers with Intel Xeon processors and Intel SSDs, companies can deploy a high performance all-flash VDI storage at a lower cost and with less power than solutions that utilize HDD drives.“