Xiotech is showing off at VMworld 2010, demonstrating a 1,000 user VDI (virtual desktop integration) deployment on a single storage blade. The company claims the VDI set-up can cost as little as $25 per user per year. Here are some details plus some potential implications for the VDI market.

Xiotech, to remind everyone, specialize in Intelligent Application Storage, and has dubbed their proprietary technology “ISE” (Intelligent Storage Element).

They’re currently “challenging” the industry to make virtual desktop infrastructures cheaper than their benchmark of $25 per user annually. Xiotech, other than issuing the challenge sees this the predictable outcome of performance and capacity increases over time, and naturally, Xiotech’s feels their own ISE storage blades are the paradigm of such.

Here’s the price/tech spec breakdown:

  • $25 annual cost per user
  • Nearly 20 TB and more than 12,000 IOPS in 3U
  • 97 percent capacity utilization
  • 43 percent fewer drives than a similarly powered competitive array
  • 40 percent less rack space than a similarly powered competitive array
  • At least twice as many users in 3U, 5.25 inches, than a similarly powered competitive array

Xiotech also is boasting integration with Citrix, Microsoft and VMware.

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