Supercharge Desktop Performance

with Liquidware Labs, Citrix and Nutanix

Combining true best-of-breed solutions allows you to avoid the time, money, and headaches often associated with
one-off designs. The category leaders in Mobile Cloud, Hyperconverged Infrastructure, and Next-Generation Workspace
Management have come together to offer one, cohesive, tested, scalable, and affordable solution.

With the Liquidware Labs, Citrix and Nutanix solution, you can quickly ramp up user-experience and productivity with
high-performance workspaces for your end users.

The Complete Picture

User Environment Management
ProfileUnity

Application Layering
ProfileUnity FlexApp Stratusphere UX
FlexApp
UEM Application Layering User Experience
Monitoring User Experience Monitoring
Stratusphere UX
XenApp/XenDesktop
Virtual Desktop
XenDesktop

Application Publishing
Acropolis Acropolis Acropolis XenApp

x 86 x 86 x 86
Hypervisor
Single Storage Pool Acropolis

Hyperconverged Infrastructure Infrastructure

XCP (Xtreme Computing Platform)

Liquidware Labs™ provides comprehensive User Environment Management, Application Layering and User Experience
Monitoring in one convenient and extremely affordable suite known as Essentials, which includes ProfileUnity with
FlexApp and Stratusphere UX. End-user computing projects that incorporate the Essentials bundle reduce
infrastructure and user-management costs, while improving desktop user experience and flexibility.

Citrix® is the leader in application delivery and desktop virtualization, providing a complete, flexible solution that
delivers Windows® applications and desktops to any user on any device while keeping valuable information locked
down in the datacenter. By combining granular controls with an uncompromised user experience, Citrix application and
desktop virtualization technology helps your organization keep pace with changing business demands while increasing
productivity, simplifying management, improving security and reducing costs.

Nutanix® delivers invisible infrastructure for next-generation enterprise computing by natively converging compute,
storage and virtualization resources into a turnkey hyperconverged solution. The world’s most advanced enterprise
datacenters rely on Nutanix web-scale technology to power their mission-critical workloads at any scale.
 Liquidware Labs + Citrix + Nutanix Supercharge Desktop Performance

Liquidware Labs, Citrix and Nutanix: Together, Exceeding the Sum of Their Parts

User Environment Management

Published Application with ProfileUnity
Applications Layering • One user profile across VDI, RDSH, DAAS
and Desktops and physical desktops
• Up to 10x faster logons vs. roaming profiles
• Application and user rights management
• Location/context-aware policy and
profile capabilities
• Automated migration to Windows 7/8.1/10*
User and Server2008/12r2
User
Environment
Experience Application Layering with FlexApp
Management
Monitoring • Streamline base image management
• Deliver applications on-demand
• Persistent user-experience on non-persistent
infrastructure

Visibility with Stratusphere UX

• User experience monitoring
Virtual Cloud Physical
• Diagnose root causes of issues
and bottlenecks
The combination of Liquidware Labs end-user computing solutions, together • Optimize resource capacity and performance
with the simplicity and scalability of Nutanix, provides a definitive architecture
for flexible, manageable, high performance Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp Virtual Desktops with XenDesktop
deployments. These best-of-breed solutions together deliver scalability and • Undisputed market leader with over
cost-effectiveness that few others can deliver. 300,000 customers
• Mobile, cloud, and workspace delivery
Customers worldwide are realizing that the addition of Liquidware Labs flexibility
Stratusphere UX and ProfileUnity with FlexApp to their Windows® delivery • Enterprise scalability and performance
platform of choice gives them the agility, visibility, scalability and performance
to ensure optimal user experience. These solutions — offering highly sought Published Applications
features and functionality — coupled with the web-scale benefits of Nutanix — and Desktops with XenApp
result in unparalleled TCO, while delivering tremendous scalability and user • Unmatched user experience
experience for Citrix desktop architectures. • Simplified management
• Unified architecture for apps & desktops
“Customers looking for Citrix Ready verified user environment management, application
layering, and added user experience visibility will find great value in Liquidware Labs Converged Infrastructure
Essentials bundle. This set of solutions includes specialized features expressly made to and Virtualization with Nutanix
support Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp environments. Our mutual customers will gain
additional options to rapidly on-board users, deliver applications, and grow and scale their • Purpose built for simple deployment
deployments while ensuring a quality user experience.” and high performance for VDI
Sid Rabindran • Full control via PRISM™ Management
Director, Citrix Ready at Citrix
Console with API Integration
• Linearly scalable for predictable
"Liquidware Labs hits the sweet spot in terms of offering enterprise class end user
growth in both performance gains
computing software at a very attractive price point. They were among the first to fully
and infrastructure costs
support Nutanix Acropolis and their close collaboration with Citrix is a key value add to
• Radically simplify and orchestrate
customers and our partnership.”
Venugopal Pai compute and storage
VP of Global Alliances and Business Development at Nutanix provisioning in one console
• Distributed File System and Replication
"Desktop architects, administrators, and CIO's want to deploy reliable, resilient, scalable (Shadow Clones) intelligently optimizes
workspaces to make their users, staffs, and budgets productive. However, the manual labor VDI deployments using software instead
and brute force needed up until now was overwhelming. Citrix, Nutanix, and Liquidware of manual configuration
Labs delivers on the promise of simple, scalable, affordable, and invisible virtual desktop
infrastructure. Period.”
J. Tyler Rohrer
Co-Founder, Liquidware Labs
*Windows 10 support planned for Q4 2015.

Learn More
For more information about how effective Liquidware Labs products combined with Citrix and Nutanix can be in your environment,
visit http://www.liquidwarelabs.com or by contacting [email protected].

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of Liquidware Labs, Inc. Citrix is the registered trademark of Citrix Systems, Inc. Nutanix is the registered trademark of Nutanix. All other marks or names mentioned herein may be trademarks
of their respective companies.
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