Citrix Ready StorageLink? Challenge

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URL:	citrix-ready-storagelink-challenge
Description:	Citrix Ready StorageLink Challenge
Title:	Citrix Ready StorageLink? Challenge
Keywords:	StorageLink,Desktop Virtualization, VDI, Storage, HP, NetApp, Citrix, GreenBytes,LSI,DataCore,NexentaStor
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View all StorageLink? Videos

We invited all of our storage partners to demonstrate to the market what makes their solutions unique in our Citrix Ready StorageLink Challenge. While this challenge is about products, technology, and integration, we think it should be fun as well. We let our partners work at their creative skills and here is what they came with...

Results

The first three categories were judged by Simon Crosby , John Fanelli and Chris Wolf (blog) of the Burton Group.

Best storage for Desktop Virtualization: NetApp
Best storage savings (TCO): HP
Best performance: GreenBytes

Votes from the community in the category of "Most innovative video" resulted in a close tie between Dell and LSI with both winning 31% of the total votes cast.

Here is a poll daddy link which shows detailed community votes

http://polldaddy.com/poll/2771302/

What is StorageLink??

Citrix StorageLink? technology lets your virtual server infrastructures fully leverage all the resources and functionality of existing storage systems. StorageLink supports third party storage architectures and delivers deep integration with leading storage platforms.

Benefits of StorageLink

Improved Management of Storage Fabric and Arrays:
Traditionally, fabrics and arrays are managed with their own set of proprietary UIs.
StorageLink? provides easy to use UI wizards to configure and manage your SAN fabric and arrays.

Tight Integration with native features of Storage Arrays:
StorageLink? "talks the language" of the storage array and exposes the native feature set in the storage array to the Virtualization administrator. Examples of these features are thin provisioning, fast clones, fast snapshots etc.

Improved VM Lifecycle Management:
StorageLink? allows the administrator to define hardware and storage profiles for VMs. Storage profiles can then be linked to storage volumes (LUNs) in storage arrays.
The combination of hardware and storage profiles allows administrators to define golden images to enable subsequent rapid creation of complex workloads leveraging the snapshot and clone

StorageLink? Resouces

Citrix StorageLink? Demo

Citrix Ready Open Storage Program

The new Citrix Ready Open Storage Program for storage partners. Leveraging StorageLink? , part of the new Citrix Essentials? for XenServer? and Hyper-V? products that simplifies the integration of server virtualization and storage solutions, enabling customers to maintain a single management process.
The Citrix Ready Open Storage Program, as part of the Citrix Ready Program, ensures that qualified storage solutions correctly and properly integrate with Citrix StorageLink. This provides users with a broad set of fully-tested, qualified solutions to address their storage requirements. Storage partners can leverage the standards-based StorageLink product to fully enable the broad feature set of their storage products for customers.

Citrix Ready Open Storage Partners

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