SALT LAKE CITY, April 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Fusion-io
(NYSE: FIO) today announced that the Fusion ioControl Hybrid
Storage Appliance completed the Citrix Ready® VDI Capacity Program
Verified for Citrix XenDesktop®. The Citrix Ready VDI Capacity
program addresses the storage needs of customers who already have,
or are considering, VDI using XenDesktop. Fusion ioControl
successfully completed the VDI Capacity test environment that
contains the necessary compute resources needed to generate a
750-user reference XenDesktop deployment.
"VDI environments require consistent performance, a challenge
that is exacerbated in shared storage environments," said
Chris McCall, Fusion-io Senior
Director of ioControl Marketing. "By using Fusion ioControl flash
first hybrid storage as the storage infrastructure for Citrix
XenDesktop, small to midsize enterprises benefit from flexible VDI
delivery options that deliver predictable performance at affordable
costs."
The Fusion ioControl Hybrid Storage appliance combines Fusion
ioMemory enterprise flash with disk capacity to deliver leading
performance. Unlike other hybrid flash arrays, Fusion ioControl
provides the ability to prioritize and control shared storage
resources by assigning performance policies to each application
independently. Featuring automated policies that define IOPS and
throughput performance minimums, and not-to-exceed latency
performance maximums for each application, the Fusion ioControl
hybrid storage appliance ideally suits small to medium enterprises
(SMEs) deploying VDI with Citrix XenDesktop standalone or alongside
other applications.
"Customers require consistent high performance for VDI and
Fusion ioControl helps by providing companies the ability to
provision, prioritize and control shared storage performance," said
Greg Fox, director, Citrix Ready
program at Citrix. "By taking part in the Citrix Ready VDI Capacity
program, Fusion-io is helping customers make informed product
purchasing decisions."
The Citrix Ready VDI Capacity program helps guide customers
regarding VDI storage needs. The program enables Citrix storage
partners to test their solutions against a turnkey "VDI Capacity"
test environment that contains the necessary compute resources
needed to generate a 750-user reference XenDesktop deployment, and
thus demonstrating the appropriate amount of storage performance
and capacity with a cost-efficient design. Partners whose
technology satisfies the test criteria are determined to be
verified as part of the Citrix Ready VDI Capacity Program Verified
for 750 users.
To learn more about the benefits of using Fusion ioControl
Hybrid Storage in a Citrix XenDesktop environment, visit:
http://www.citrix.com/ready/en/fusion-io/iocontrol-hybrid-storage.
ABOUT CITRIX READY
The Citrix Ready program identifies
verified solutions that are trusted to enhance virtualization,
networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix, including
XenDesktop®, XenApp®, Cloud Platform™, XenServer®, NetScaler®. The
Citrix Ready designation is awarded to third-party products that
have successfully met verification criteria set by Citrix, and
gives customers an added confidence in the compatibility of the
joint solution offering. The Citrix Ready program leverages
industry-leading alliances across the Citrix partner eco-system to
meet a wide variety customer needs, and currently incorporates over
partners who have demonstrated more than 25,000 product
verifications. It also includes the Citrix Ready Community Verified
program which allows customers to see thousands of products that
have been verified by other customers to work in their production
environments. More information about the Citrix Ready program can
be found at www.citrix.com/ready. Reach Citrix Ready using
social media via the Citrix Ready blog site and Twitter.
ABOUT FUSION-IO
Fusion-io delivers the world's data
faster. Our Fusion ioMemory platform and software defined storage
solutions accelerate virtualization, databases, cloud computing,
big data and performance applications. From e-commerce retailers to
the world's social media leaders and Fortune Global 500 companies,
our customers are improving the performance and efficiency of their
data centers with Fusion-io technology to accelerate the critical
applications of the information economy.
NOTE ON FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties, including statements concerning the
potential benefits of the Fusion ioControl appliance and its use as
the storage infrastructure for Citrix XenDesktop. These statements
are based on current expectations and assumptions regarding future
events and business performance and involve certain risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from those contained, anticipated, or implied in any
forward-looking statement, including, but not limited to, the risk
that users of Fusion-io's products may not realize the expected
benefits, and such other risks set forth in the registration
statements and reports that Fusion-io files with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available on the
Investor Relations section of our website at
www.fusionio.com. You should not rely upon forward-looking
statements as predictions of future events. Although we
believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking
statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee that the future
results, levels of activity, performance or events and
circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements will be
achieved or will occur. Fusion-io undertakes no obligation to
update publicly any forward-looking statement for any reason after
the date of this press release.
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