Iomega, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC) and a global leader in data protection, today announced a "first" in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) for small and medium sized businesses and distributed offices when 100 thin clients with VMware View 4.6 were simultaneously booted in a matter of minutes – an unheard VDI implementation utilizing a sub-$3,000 network storage device.
Before thousands of IT professionals at the recent EMC World in Las Vegas, the six-bay desktop high performance and scalable Iomega® StorCenter™ px6-300d – utilizing two 128GB* solid state drives and four 2TB** hard disk drives – booted 100 Wyse clients to VMware View on Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) server platform in less than five minutes, establishing a new low cost, high performance bar for VDI deployments for today's small installations, such as a Fortune 500 call center or a professional services firm.
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Iomega and VMware bring Enterprise Class VDI To SMBs and Distributed Enterprises
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