SAN JOSE, CA — (Marketwired) — 12/17/14 — , the leader in server-side storage intelligence, today announced that PernixData FVP software is verified as Citrix Ready® for Citrix XenDesktop® and XenApp® 7.6 and available in the Citrix marketplace. In addition, the company has joined the Citrix Ready Program as a Premier Partner. These joint activities, coupled with numerous live VDI deployments throughout the world, ensure that PernixData–s storage acceleration software is compatible with Citrix solutions, providing end users confidence in their ability to deploy high performing, highly scalable virtual desktop and application delivery solutions.
The Citrix Ready program makes it easy for customers to identify complementary products and solutions that can enhance Citrix environments. Customers can be confident that PernixData FVP software has successfully passed a series of tests established by Citrix, and can be trusted to work effectively with XenDesktop and XenApp to ensure fast, reliable and scalable virtual desktop and application delivery.
PernixData FVP software clusters flash and RAM across servers to accelerate reads and writes to shared storage. By putting storage intelligence into hosts where the XenDesktop VMs reside, PernixData FVP software substantially lowers VDI latency — even under peak loads. In addition, FVP provides a cost-effective way of scaling out storage performance as your VDI deployment grows. To view the PernixData FVP software listing in the , please go .
“We are pleased to have PernixData join the Citrix Ready program,” said Aimee Catalano, Vice President of Alliance Marketing at Citrix. “Citrix Ready makes it easier for customers to select the most suitable VDI products for their specific needs. By taking part in our program, PernixData has enabled its customers to obtain the highest quality user experience available today.”
“In a very short period of time, FVP software was up and running and delivering substantially more IOPS per virtual desktop than we could get with our storage system alone,” said Mark Allen, Technical Support Analyst at se2. “In addition to enhancing the end user VDI experience, FVP software enabled us to confidently grow our Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp environments in a simple and cost effective manner.”
“The Citrix Ready program gives PernixData customers confidence that FVP software is a verified solution with Citrix virtual application and desktop solutions,” said Mike Arterbury, vice president of business development and alliances at PernixData. “By forging strategic relationships like this, PernixData is establishing itself as a leader in storage acceleration with a world class product that seamlessly integrates into any business environment.”
PernixData is fundamentally changing how storage is designed and operated in virtual data centers. The company–s flagship software product, PernixData FVP, virtualizes server side flash and memory to enable scale-out storage performance that is independent of capacity. No changes are required to VMs, servers or primary storage, ensuring maximum performance of all virtualized applications in a seamless, scalable and cost-effective manner.
Based in San Jose, California, PernixData was founded by virtualization experts and backed by industry luminaries in the software space. For more information, please visit and follow us on Twitter .
The Citrix Ready program identifies verified solutions that are trusted to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix, including XenDesktop®, XenApp®, CloudPortal, 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 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 . Reach Citrix Ready using social media via the and .
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