On Boston' booth at this year's CeBIT in Hanover, Boston announced a new solution that leverages commodity hardware to deliver Citrix XenDesktop 7-based VDI for less than $500 per user. The solution was a result of collaboration between Citrix and Boston engineers who wanted to answer the question: 'Can VDI have a lower or equivalent TCO when compared to the traditional approach of using physical desktop PCs?' the answer was a resounding yes! Commodity hardware enables the delivery of the required network, storage and server resources to less than $125 per user, bringing the ultimate cost of VDI delivery under the $500 per user figure.
Along with having the solution on display at CeBIT (Stand #B39, Hall 2) Boston also launched a whitepaper, Cost Efficient VDI: XenDesktop 7 on Commodity Hardware, that explains how the solution achieves the goal of delivering an enterprise-class VDI solution that maintains the cost-per-user at levels comparable to traditional desktop delivery methods.
As well as working closely with Citrix, Boston also used enterprise-class hardware from Mellanox, SanDisk and Supermicro to ensure a quality solution that was up to the task. Thanks to all the partners involved and congratulations to the engineers that helped develop the solution.
If you would like to read the full whitepaper you can download it here. You can also read the press-release here.