Discussion with Lisa Bibby, National Account Manager for Ntersect Networks

Ntersect Networks is a virtualization deployment company focused on virtual desktop solutions targeting Fortune 500 companies, healthcare and banking markets.

Virtual desktops are a very important initiative and it’s something that most people are looking forward to but we find that if you don’t look at the entire environment, if you’re not looking at the storage all the way to the end points, that it will fail.

The Hyper ISE is a storage solution that is really unparalleled with a combination of capacity and performance. There’s just nothing like it in the marketplace that we’ve seen.

We’ve actually done testing with near a thousand VDI desktops running a load script and we’re seeing great response times. [The Hyper ISE] storage solution makes virtual desktops like a snap, [finger snap] like that. My architects are very excited about this solution.

The Hyper ISE is amazing when it handles boot storms and concurrent requests. And what we’ve found is that in comparing it to other solutions that we’ve already implemented, it’s been able to handle all the IOPS without bogging down the system.

Hyper ISE gives you the power that’s necessary for the VDI environments along with that huge amount of storage necessary for the user community. And something that is truly remarkable about the Hyper ISE is the huge amount of disk space and raw power. It’s just a winner for the VDI solution and it solves real world problems and that’s what I really can’t stress enough.

When you’re looking some of these larger virtual desktop deployments, you have to understand that the cost of scaling out your virtual desktops to one thousand to three thousand, it’s not just the cost of that virtualization software. You also have to look at the cost of your storage.

Within the VDI environment what is essential and important are three things: There’s price, performance and capacity and with the Hyper ISE, you’re going to get all three of those things. Within this marketplace, that’s an unmatched solution.