GreenBytes

® Inc., a developer of next generation high-performance, energy-efficient data storage solutions, today announced that the company’s GB-X Series of inline deduplication storage appliances have been certified 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. The GreenBytes GB-X storage appliances completed a rigorous verification process to ensure compatibility with Citrix StorageLink™.

GreenBytes’ GB-X Series is an ideal fit for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) storage,enabling users to take full control of their GreenBytes array using the integrated CitrixStorageLink technology. Users can rapidly deploy VDIs with a 90% or more reduction instorage requirements versus non-intelligent arrays, and scale to thousands of concurrent users with the only iSCSI array to combine inline deduplication and multi-tier, highly scalable IOPS caches. Feature highlights include:

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Capacity Optimization: Array based instant clones with inline deduplication and real-time compression

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SSD Based IOPS Acceleration: Scalable IOPS cache based on enterprise class SSD drives

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High-Performance Architecture: Multi-core SAS2 10GbE iSCSI

The GreenBytes/Citrix StorageLink solution allows for accelerated time to provision and activate virtual machines (VMs) and VDIs. What has traditionally taken hours can now be accomplished in a few minutes with the StorageLink management interface. Additionally, the GB-X Series can make many VDI instances in a fraction of the time it takes to manually create storage LUNs. Array based cloning and inline deduplication allows the GreenBytes/Citrix solution to create a large number of VM instances with data storage reduction of 90% or more.

With GreenBytes’ SSD-accelerated architecture, VDIs stored on GreenBytes GB-XSeries appliances are highly responsive. Unlike traditional ‘spindle-count = performance’storage architectures, the GB-X SSD cache acceleration will sustain IOPS to withstand boot-storm stresses with minimal footprint of conventional magnetic disk drives. The synergy between Citrix and GreenBytes combines ease of administration with minimal storage footprint and the IOPS of ten or more ordinary arrays.