Citrix and EMC’s  partnership is founded upon product quality, innovation, and addressing customer requirements with industry-leading joint solutions. This relationship continues to grow and expand. The two companies share a common vision to reduce cost, simplify IT management, and maximize security and business flexibility through solutions enabling a key component of a virtualized IT infrastructure – virtualized desktops and cloud-based solutions to support seamless mobile user experience.

Our customers are expecting more flexibility and agility out of their infrastructure, especially as they increasingly accept the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) wave across the business and ultimately evolve to where they integrate virtual desktops and cloud initiatives like cloud storage, cloud compute, and others that help them to improve security of data and applications.

Citrix and EMC, together, are building out simple, efficient and cost effective virtual desktop infrastructure solutions and deployments. Our combined technologies help businesses assess, plan, evaluate, and implement VDI as a strategic IT initiative (data storage, applications, endpoint ownership, security, data protection, virtualization, maintenance/support costs, etc) rather than treat it as a tactical approach to a singular business challenge.  Citrix and EMC continue to raise the level of business value of VDI that helps businesses better justify the investment.

Organizations benefit from implementing Citrix XenDesktop virtualization in conjunction with EMC storage and security solutions by reducing cost, increasing security, and enabling a more flexible use of IT assets.

VSPEX™ Proven Infrastructure built with Citrix XenDesktop is one of the latest examples of EMC and Citrix collaborating to bring simple and efficient solutions that are flexible to meet the unique needs of our customers. Designed for flexibility and validated to ensure interoperability and fast deployment, VSPEX gives customers the power to choose the technology in their solution while removing the complexity and risk that typically comes with designing, integrating and deploying a best-of-breed VDI solution.

Citrix and EMC working together

• Can overcome the challenges for optimizing the storage in the desktop virtualization environment.
• Help our joint customers radically simplify virtual desktop deployment, infrastructure, security and management operations in enterprise desktop virtualization environment.
• Ensure that customers reap all the benefits of desktop virtualization when you move the data to datacenter storage.
• Our certified product integration, proven interoperability and in-depth technical experience help streamline your organization’s IT management processes and increase systems availability.

Our solutions for joint channel partners will enable them to provide rapid deployments of tested and proven configurations for customers in a stream-lined, highly efficient manner.

Key Benefits

Rapid desktop deployment: Deploy one virtual machine image or 1,000 virtual desktop images in minutes.

• Award-winning unified storage: VNX Family of unified storage with Citrix XenDesktop running over NAS or SAN, makes it simple for organizations to deploy XenDesktop ensuring performance, scalability, and operational efficiency.
  
• Improved storage efficiency: Leverage EMC Flash Drive technology, tiered storage and advanced cloning technology to increase utilization and reduce storage requirements.
• Advanced performance: Combine just a few flash drives with EMC automated tiering software to enhance Citrix XenDesktop performance with traditional storms like boot, login, virus scans, etc.
• Improved compliance: Standardize client desktop images and applications and prevent unauthorized application use.
• Increased scalability: EMC Solutions leverage a building block approach that allows scaling of virtual desktop deployments (users and devices) across the entire organization.
• High availability: Gain with highly available, scalable and efficient storage, tailored for virtualized environments.
• Reduced cost: Take advantage of new capabilities to improve efficiency and cut costs of IT operations, storage hardware, policies and procedures.
• Better performance: Improve ease of use and enhance performance for applications and workloads.