In addition to our founder and CTO, Bob Petrocelli, speaking on stage with a customer on Friday, co-presenting a great real-world success story around cloud-scale desktop virtualization, you can find the GreenBytes booth (#421) right next to the main Citrix booth, so we won’t be hard to miss. Come for the free pen and thumb drive — stay for an awesome product demo and engaging chat about how GreenBytes boosts Citrix XenDesktop and accelerates mobile workstyles and cloud services.

You can download our newly published GreenBytes/Citrix solution brief by clicking here, and if you’d like to set up a specific time to come by the booth, please email pr@getgreenbytes.com.

Looking forward to seeing many familiar faces, and making some new friends at this year’s event. Enjoy, everyone!

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The wholesale offering combines the Desktone DaaS Platform with the GreenBytes vIO virtual storage appliance. It’s a pre-configured, all-in-one virtual desktop appliance, including storage, compute and desktop virtualization software, that resides at the customer site and is managed remotely through the cloud by a cloud provider.

Also, GreenBytes Founder and CTO Robert Petrocelli will be a featured speaker at Citrix Synergy.  Bob will be co-presenting a customer case study “Emerging Technologies that Enable Cloud-Scale Desktop Virtualization” along with Thomas Lehrer, Solutions Architect IV, OneNeck IT Services.

When:  Friday, May 24, 11:00am – 11:45am
Where: Citrix Synergy, Anaheim Convention Center, Ballroom E

We look forward to seeing you there!

Desktone provisions and boots virtual desktops from its cloud through partners such as Dell and Fujitsu. Customers can treat their entire virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) as a subscription service, and not buy any computing or storage resources to run it – merely acquiring the users’ devices.

May 13, 2013 – Lexington, MA and Providence, RI – Desktone, Inc., the pioneer of Desktops as a Service (DaaS), and GreenBytes, Inc., developer of IO-Offload solutions that optimize full-featured virtual desktop environments, today announced a strategic partnership to offer service providers an all-in-one on-premises solution.  By combining the Desktone DaaS Platform with the GreenBytes vIO virtual storage appliance, the companies are making high-performance virtual desktop environments simple and affordable.

“Many businesses that want to implement full-featured virtual desktops have been waylaid by the high cost and complexities inherent in building and managing the infrastructure,” said Danny Allan, CTO, Desktone. “Desktone and GreenBytes have had great success in helping businesses remove those obstacles and now, by integrating GreenBytes’ IO offload solution with our purpose-built, cloud-managed DaaS Platform, we’re making it even easier for companies to implement high-performing, low-cost virtual desktops.”

“Like Desktone, we believe businesses should be able to implement robust virtual desktop environments without having to invest in and manage additional infrastructure,” said Bob Petrocelli, Founder and CTO, GreenBytes. “By combining GreenBytes technology, which slashes virtual desktop storage requirements, with Desktone’s mulit-tenant virtual desktop platform, we’re enabling a desktop experience that’s incredibly flexible and cost-effective, and requires very little management by the customer.”

“Cost and management complexities are huge barriers to virtual desktop deployments. Desktone and GreenBytes are both known for tackling these challenges with innovative cloud services and storage deduplication technologies that optimize desktop virtualization, respectively. By providing a converged appliance that minimizes storage needs and offloads virtual desktop management to Service Providers, the companies can significantly ease the path to virtual desktops,” said Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst, ESG.

The new offering is a pre-configured, all-in-one virtual desktop appliance—including storage, compute and desktop virtualization software—that resides at the customer site and is managed remotely through the cloud by a Cloud Provider. Desktone’s unique virtual desktop architecture, specifically its multi-tenancy and ability to manage multiple locations from one infrastructure, enables service providers to deliver this hybrid cloud model. GreenBytes’ vIO virtual storage appliance leverages GreenBytes’ patented zero latency inline deduplication technology, which sends only truly unique data to the storage system, to reduce the amount of data stored, often by more than 90%, and boosts performance of virtual desktops. Customers use the Desktone DaaS Platform’s IT portal to easily add, remove and edit virtual desktops. Service Providers use the DaaS Platform’s Service Provider’s Portal to provision and manage the virtual desktop environment.

Desktone’s cloud-managed virtual desktop offering is available immediately from authorized Service Providers. For information, contact info@desktone.com

To learn more about the Desktone/GreenBytes solution, attend the complimentary webinar, “Affordable VDI:  How to Deliver Full-Featured Virtual Desktops On-Site, Managed in the Cloud.”  Click here to register.

About GreenBytes, Inc.
GreenBytes delivers patented IO-Offload desktop virtualization optimization solutions that maximize the effective performance and capacity of existing infrastructure to provide full-featured virtual desktops (persistent or non-persistent) with the manageability, scalability and affordability required for cloud-scale VDI deployments. GreenBytes was founded in 2007 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. For more information, please visit www.getgreenbytes.com.

About Desktone
Desktone provides the only unified platform for delivering desktops and applications as a cloud service, enabling the deployment of Windows desktops and applications from the cloud to any end user device. Desktone enables IT service providers to rapidly provision desktops and applications to users connected on any device, anywhere, without the upfront costs and complexity of traditional desktop virtualization – transforming desktops from a CAPEX to OPEX item. Leading service providers, such as Dell, Fujitsu, NEC, Time Warner Cable and Dimension Data, have selected Desktone’s Platform to offer desktops and apps as a cloud service. Founded in 2007, Desktone is funded by Highland Capital and Softbank and is headquartered in Boston, MA. For more information, visit www.desktone.com.

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Press Contact for Desktone:

Janice Bedsole, Bedsole & Company

781.789.6108, janice@bedsoleandcompany.com

Press Contact for GreenBytes:

Michael Robinson, VP Marketing, GreenBytes

401.228.8390, pr@getgreenbytes.com