Liquidware Labs and WhipTail Partner

Liquidware Labs, Inc., in desktop transformation solutions, and WhipTail Technologies, Inc., in solid-state based storage arrays, have collaborated to offer a joint solution to customers and partners to assist them in reaching virtual desktop and application success.

The partnership between Liquidware Labs and WhipTail Tech allows joint customers to both assess and understand their users’ current data traffic and application patterns today, in the physical world – and, ensures that they are selecting and architecting optimal storage solutions for those users as they migrate to desktop virtualization. Taking the guesswork out of storage sizing and selection is a huge win for all project stakeholders – from the data center to the endpoint. Together, these two companies offer solutions for optimized storage sizing and performance that equates to tangible cost savings, bringing value to the market.

WhipTail’s solid-state storage arrays are designed to improve the scalability and performance of applications for virtualization and a host of other uses. Using both Stratusphere FIT and UX from Liquidware Labs, companies engaged in pilots and proof of concepts can measure, tune, and validate one of the most critical components of any desktop deployment – IOPS. In the mission to deliver premium user experience to end-users, solid state technology is a winner, and its effective use also aids TCO and ROI immediately as user density can be increased.

"As more and more workloads find their way from endpoints into data centers and clouds, the importance of fast, scalable, and reliable storage IOPS cannot be understated. More and more projects will evolve successfully by combining powerful insight into your current state, with progressive solutions like WhipTail’s," said J. Tyler Rohrer, founder Liquidware Labs. "We are very excited to begin collaborating together in the field for the benefit of our joint customers."  

"The shift to a virtual desktop model comes with inherent challenges. To recognize the ‘holy-grail TCO’ of desktop management, these issues need to be addressed. We have had great success in the field with Liquidware Labs and their world-class solution to assist enterprises in understanding how to optimally architect their VDI infrastructures, with the key focus wrapped-around sizing and IO performance," said Brian Feller, chief marketing officer, WhipTail Tech. "We are extremely pleased to formally announce this relationship with Liquidware – a company who reflects a similar value-proposition as WhipTail Tech: lower costs and increased user satisfaction."

To enhance customer deployments, when Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity user persona virtualization is used together with stateless thin provisioning technologies like VMware View Composer or Citrix Provisioning Server, additional density and cost savings can be realized in VDI projects.