Sometimes it difficult to see how something so easy could get even easier, and today Citrix have done just that by bringing their Kaviza acquisition into the fold and adding more functionality and a new name ‘Citrix VDI in a Box’.
This is a version 5 release of the VDI solution aimed at the SMB marketplace following the shrewd acquisition Citrix made earlier this year of Kaviza. Some people questioned the logic of the acquisition including us. But from getting to know the product, the issues that our SMB customer base face and how this solves many of the VDI hurdles it is crystal clear why Citrix made this move.
VDI-in-a-Box offers an all-in-one VDI solution that doesn’t require shared storage and dedicated load balanced connection brokers. Customers just have to deploy the virtual appliance on their hypervisor of choice and they are ready to go.The solution can scale simply through adding more servers to the grid. Once you know your users to server ratio you have a simple internal SKU that you can align a cost to. Adding more users becomes easier to forecast and budget for.
Version 5 provides the following new features:
- Support for the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, besides the already existing support for Citrix XenServer and VMware ESXi
- Expanded set of wizards to cover every frequent operation
- Support for Citrix HDX providing:
- Real-time audio stream, which reduces network latency for voice traffic
- Webcam compression
- Graphics command redirection, decreasing bandwidth with 33 percent
- Intelligent local rendering.
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