Liquidware Labs, a leader in desktop transformation solutions for virtual desktops, including VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop, today announced an alliance partnership with NetApp that will provide partners and customers with tailored Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) architecture, planning, and design solutions.

Working closely with NetApp, Liquidware Labs has developed a set of custom reports and designed new data output engines that encapsulate NetApp best practices, VDI storage design, and capacity planning. The proper sizing and design of VDI storage infrastructure is critical to desktop and application virtualization success and performance, and can significantly lower the capital costs of such projects. Based on an in-depth and granular assessment of the existing desktop work patterns and resource loads, administrators can now see and understand the impact of those workloads on the planned VDI design. In addition, the assessment data can be used in the NetApp® VDI Storage Sizing configurator to deliver tailored storage based on real-world usage and load patterns. To view a technical brief on the integration, visit www.netapp.com/us/library/technical-reports/tr-3902.html.

“Proper storage sizing is critical to virtual desktop infrastructure design and successful deployment,” said Patrick Rogers, vice president, Corporate Alliances at NetApp. “By integrating NetApp with Liquidware Labs Stratusphere™, customers benefit from powerful metrics to help determine storage sizing and efficiencies in any Windows environment to allow our mutual customers to gain the flexibility and cost savings that virtual desktop infrastructure enables.”

Francis Czekalski, Senior Enterprise Consultant for Green Pages, which is a joint partner of Liquidware Labs and NetApp, said, “We are excited that both companies have come together to provide a best-in-class storage sizing solution for our existing and future customers. Right sizing storage for VDI is a major milestone for successful deployments.”

Tyler Rohrer, founder of Liquidware Labs, added, “Customers and partners around the world look to NetApp for reliable and scalable storage solutions, and we are thrilled to see this partnership and these market offerings come to fruition. This partnership with NetApp made a tremendous amount of sense as it delivers solutions to the market that enable desktop transformation success. Because desktop transformation and virtualization can be complex, this partnership simplifies and automates many of the storage design considerations, allowing customers to properly design, and optimize storage utilization-which leads to higher density, lower costs, and optimal end user experience.”

NetApp partners interested in participating in the enablement program can Email Liquidware Labs for more information on how to begin to leverage the NetApp specific solutions.

About Liquidware Labs

Liquidware Labs™ is the leader in desktop transformation solutions for next-generation physical and virtual desktops, including VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, and Microsoft Windows 7. The company’s Stratusphere™ and ProfileUnity™ solutions have been described by analysts as the industry’s first ‘On-Ramp to VDI,’ providing a complete methodology and software that enables organizations to decouple users and applications from the operating system and to cost-effectively plan, migrate, manage and validate the user experience for next-generation desktop infrastructure. Liquidware Labs products are VMware and Citrix certified, and are available through a global network of certified partners. Visit www.liquidwarelabs.com for further information.

About the NetApp Alliance Partner Program

The NetApp Alliance Partner Program provides qualified infrastructure and application providers with access to NetApp solutions, software development kits, technical support, training, certification, product information, and marketing and sales assistance. Customers benefit by having access to best-of-breed partner solutions that are tested to work with NetApp storage. Additional information on the NetApp Alliance Partner Program is available at www.netapp.com/alliances.