Citrix, Dell Unveil VDI Appliance

Citrix Systems has announced it has teamed with Dell to deliver a new VDI appliance that radically simplifies and accelerates desktop virtualisation deployments for the mass market. The Dell DVS Simplified solution with Citrix VDI-in-a-Box is an easy, repeatable solution that will be sold through Dell’s global sales team and channels, reaching millions of customers who want to take advantage of the significant business benefits that desktop virtualisation offers, such as enhanced mobility and streamlined IT management.

Leveraging the all-in-one Citrix VDI-in-a-Box software, Dell and Citrix have created a simple integrated hardware VDI appliance that is pre-certified to support defined numbers of desktops. Based on the unique VDI-in-a-Box grid architecture running on Dell servers, the Dell DVS Simplified VDI appliance can be easily installed to create and rapidly scale a virtual desktop deployment in response to business needs, making VDI easily consumable by light IT organisations that may have previously lacked the resources and datacentre infrastructure needed for desktop virtualisation.

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The VDI appliance is backed by a full Citrix Ready verified ecosystem, providing customers with tested and validated workforce mobility solutions, supporting over one billion devices, including PCs, Macs, thin clients, tablets, smartphones, along with peripherals such as web cams, printers, mice and keyboards. Customers can have full confidence that the VDI appliance works “out-of-the-box” with existing end-user technology. With the strengths of partnerships like Dell, Citrix is making VDI more simple than it has ever been and more ideal to grow on-demand than ever before, allowing businesses of all sizes to enable mobile workstyles for their users.

The industry is moving rapidly from the PC era to the cloud era, and small and medium businesses want to capitalise on the business benefits of desktop virtualisation, including driving efficiencies, enabling mobility and improving business continuity, but typically have much tighter budgets and far fewer resources.

Citrix VDI-in-a-Box addresses these needs head-on. The VDI-in-a-Box design eliminates multiple moving parts that can potentially result in higher costs and complexity of infrastructure. The unique all-in-one grid architecture enables a building-block approach by leveraging Dell’s off-the-shelf servers. Scaling a deployment involves simply adding additional servers, with nothing to re-architect or reconfigure.

“We are seeing tremendous customer and partner momentum with Citrix VDI-in-a-Box as SMBs and departments within enterprises seek to capitalise on the benefits of delivering IT services from the cloud by virtualising desktops. Our relationship with Dell and the new integrated VDI appliance is aimed at making the transition to the cloud a no-brainer for our mutual customers, ultimately breaking down the barriers to VDI adoption for this very important customer segment through a repeatable, simple, affordable and predictable hardware VDI solution,” said Krishna Subramanian, Vice President, Marketing & Business Development, SMB Solutions, Citrix.

“Our customers look to Dell as a trusted companion to deploy desktop virtualisation solutions that help them promote workforce mobility, business continuity and streamlined IT management. Our new DVS Simplified solution with Citrix VDI-in-a-Box addresses these issues so companies can focus on their core business objectives. Dell’s DVS Simplified dramatically reduces VDI deployment complexity, with nothing to architect, configure or install – simply power it on and go. What’s more, the solution enables businesses of all sizes to realise the benefits of central desktop management that were previously reserved only for the largest enterprises,” said Steve Lalla, Vice President and General Manager of Dell’s Mobility Products and Solutions.