NETAPP OFFRE ENCORE PLUS D’EFFICACITE AUX UTILISATEURS DE VMWARE® VIEW TM 4.5

A l’occasion de VMworld 2010, NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) annonce l’intégration de ses technologies de stockage unifié à VMware View TM 4.5. Cette intégration rend le stockage plus efficace et permet de mieux gérer l’évolution du nombre de postes de travail virtuels tout en améliorant les niveaux de performance pour les utilisateurs finaux. Afin de le démontrer, NetApp et VMware ont collaboré ensemble à la réalisation d’une architecture de référence comprenant une infrastructure de 50 000 postes virtuels qui s’adaptent facilement sans sacrifier à la performance.

“As organizations continue on the path to IT as a service, they are looking for scalable virtual desktop solutions at lower cost,” said Vittorio Viarengo, vice president, End-user Computing Products, VMware. “Our partnership with NetApp helps our joint customers improve data management while cost-effectively implementing a truly scalable, high-performance VMware View 4.5 solution.”

In a virtual desktop environment, each virtual machine can consist of the same operating software and application software, and can be tied to hundreds or thousands of users’ documents, spreadsheets, and presentations across multiple desktops. As a result, storage capacity requirements for desktop data can increase to tens or even hundreds of terabytes, dramatically impacting performance while driving up the costs and management of both the storage stack and the desktop virtualization infrastructure. NetApp helps customers gain control and reduce the cost of storage for VMware® View TM desktops to nearly one-third the cost of alternative storage solutions.

Integrated with VMware View 4.5, NetApp improves desktop efficiencies by extending critical operations such as backup and recovery, deduplication, desktop cloning, and storage system monitoring directly to desktop and server administrators. NetApp also helps significantly improve performance with Flash Cache, which allows read requests to be served out of high-speed, solid-state cache that can be up to 100 times faster than average high-speed disk drives.

NetApp and VMware recently teamed to build a global 50,000-seat desktop virtualization reference architecture, currently the largest documented virtual desktop deployment, to provide customers with a joint architecture that is easy to replicate and deploy. The flexible and dynamic solution supporting a Windows® 7 environment was built using NetApp® FAS storage, NetApp Virtual Storage Console, VMware View 4.5, and VMware vSphere TM. Cisco, Fujitsu, and Wyse also collaborated on the project and provided the server, network, and thin-client technology to deliver an end-to-end scalable solution. In addition to getting an industry-leading partner ecosystem with a track record in desktop virtualization, customers also benefit from a proven architecture that easily scales from 5,000 to 50,000+ seats with minimal impact to performance.

“Desktop virtualization helps improve the efficiency, reliability, and availability of resources, creating a more flexible infrastructure with greater cost savings,” said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions and Alliances at NetApp. “By seamlessly integrating NetApp with VMware View TM 4.5, together we provide a complete, secure, and easy-to-manage solution that enables organizations to completely and cost-effectively virtualize their desktops without compromises.”

For additional perspective on desktop virtualization and the NetApp and VMware 50,000-seat testing, visit Vaughn Stewart’s blog at http://blogs.netapp.com/virtualstorageguy/.

Visit NetApp at VMworld 2010 San Francisco
Customers can learn more about NetApp solutions for VMware View 4.5 at VMworld 2010 San Francisco in booth #601. For more information on NetApp presentations focused on desktop virtualization and cloud computing at VMworld 2010 San Francisco, visit http://communities.netapp.com/community/events/vmworld. For up-to-the-minute information about NetApp at VMworld, follow NetApp and NetAppVirt on twitter: http://twitter.com/netapp and http://twitter.com/netappvirt.