Virsto Software, an innovative provider of VM-centric storage hypervisor software, today announced that the Virsto Software storage hypervisor was validated as Citrix Ready.The first VM-Centric storage hypervisor to achieve the Citrix Ready designation, Virsto brings increased storage utilization gains, ease of virtual desktop provisioning to Citrix XenDesktop and a reduction in the cost of storage in virtual desktop environments of more than 50 percent.

The Citrix Ready certification indicates solutions that are trusted to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing offerings from Citrix, including XenDesktop. It is awarded to products that meet stringent verification criteria set by Citrix, giving customers confidence in the compatibility of the joint solution. Virsto’s storage hypervisor was specifically designed to lower storage costs and increase performance while accelerating provisioning in virtual desktop environments.

Since its 2007 founding, Virsto has established a track record of innovation in storage virtualization software for virtual machines. With today’s certification, Virsto takes the lead in the multi-hypervisor strategy by announcing the first VM-centric storage hypervisor to be named Citrix Ready, supporting integration with Citrix XenDesktop to allow organizations to cut their cost of storage in virtual desktop environments by more than half.

Virsto’s storage hypervisor benefits users by:

• Changing the economics of storage in virtual desktop deployments - by significantly increasing storage utilization with higher VM density, reducing storage costs by 50 percent or more, and delivering compelling cost-per-desktop economics.
• Supporting enterprise-scale VDI – by delivering the only solution that provides unlimited snapshots and thin-provisioned clones to enable projects to scale to thousands of virtual desktops, supporting heterogeneous storage to fully utilize and consolidate existing storage resources and robust, cluster-aware HA and backup.
• Simplifying VDI management – by providing software-driven storage tiering to enable the creation of high-performance, yet cost-effective storage solutions, decreasing the provisioning time of thousands of images from hours to minutes, and supporting simple bulk operations and other flexible tools for managing VDI at scale.