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Friday, February 15, 2013

U.S. Army conquers virtualized desktop challenges with hybrid tiers

To give its doctors more time to treat patients, the U.S. Army is converting its desktop health care patient record application system to a virtual desktop infrastructure.

The project takes advantage of tiered storage with RAM, solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard drives. It includes NetApp storage arrays, Atlantis Computing's ILIO Diskless virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) storage optimization software, Hewlett-Packard (HP) blade servers with SSDs, and Citrix Systems' XenDesktop and XenApp software to virtualize desktops and applications.

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