Nutanix Citrix Ready

Nutanix, Inc.,
announced that it has been verified as Citrix Ready.

The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that
are recommended to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing
solutions from Citrix. As part of the program, Nutanix has completed a
process to ensure its Virtual Computing Platform is compatible with Citrix
XenDesktop. The Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform is a great addition to this
program as it offers XenDesktop customers a flexible, simple and
affordable solution to achieve massive scale.

Nutanix offers a next-generation converged infrastructure for virtual workloads
that consolidates the compute (server) and storage tiers into a single,
integrated platform. Using the same design principles and technologies that
power IT innovators such as Google, Facebook and Amazon, Nutanix’s modular
design helps to simplify traditional datacenter infrastructures.

Reference Architecture for Deploying
Citrix XenDesktop
Nutanix has also published a reference architecture that
details what is required to build a complete, enterprise-scale XenDesktop
delivery infrastructure leveraging the Virtual Computing Platform.
Specifically, the reference architecture provides a technical blueprint with
recommended design, performance and configuration information for organizations
looking to deploy as few as a couple hundred virtual desktops, or for large
enterprises that need to run more than 20,000 virtual desktops using Citrix
XenDesktop.

The Reference Architecture provides detailed performance data for a variety of
XenDesktop configurations, including those leveraging Machine Created Services
(MCS) and Provisioning Services (PVS). Thorough testing, using
industry-standard benchmarking tool Login VSI, demonstrated that a single
Nutanix 2U appliance provides all of the server compute and storage resources
necessary to deliver XenDesktop services to up to 400 task workers or up to 360
knowledge workers – eliminating the need for centralized
SAN-based storage systems.

"Nutanix’s outstanding ability to
scale predictably and economically along with their extremely dense footprint
made their solution the clear choice for our Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp deployment.
The combination of Citrix XenDesktop and the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform
improves employee efficiency and output while driving higher employee
satisfaction for business-critical services," said Doug Conard,
director of infrastructure at Think Finance.

"We are pleased to offer enterprises
a simple yet powerful solution that serves as the infrastructure foundation for
the virtual datacenter. Further, we are extremely excited to join the Citrix
Ready program and look forward to supporting XenDesktop customers with the best
virtual computing solution for their Citrix environment," said Greg
Smith, senior director of product and technical marketing at Nutanix.