"Introducing NetApp all-flash arrays into our software development
process has reduced storage latency up to tenfold, enabling us to
significantly increase the number of tests we can run and the accuracy
of our results," said Satish Sambandham, Senior Manager, Product
Development for Citrix. "NetApp all-flash arrays give our engineering
team the scale-out capacity, performance, and non-disruptive operations
we need to deliver new features in our flagship XenApp and XenDesktop
product lines with utmost speed and quality."
Citrix
is a global technology leader with more than 300,000 customers
worldwide that use its software to drive productivity and improve
quality of life for workers around the globe. Citrix constantly improves
and updates its products to deliver value to customers. However, manual
testing of software was time consuming. Citrix wanted to improve
efficiency and move further into DevOps by introducing new capabilities
for automation.
Citrix needed a solution that could support
automated testing on a large scale, drive down latency and would work
well with the Citrix XenServer and NFS shared storage. The company
evaluated a variety of flash storage solutions and ultimately chose
NetApp because of its performance, flexibility, rich
data management features, and the relationship between the two
companies. The team deployed FlexPod converged infrastructure with NetApp All Flash FAS storage systems running the clustered Data ONTAP operating system for non-disruptive operations.
Immediately after installing the AFF storage system,
Citrix noticed a drastic improvement. The team can now run up to 125
tests in parallel, and with increased frequency. Testing at scale is
consistent, fast, and reliable, and tests no longer need to be extended
or repeated.
With its new solution, Citrix can:
- Reduce test completion time by 20-30% with submillisecond latency
- Reclaim valuable developer time by providing reliable test results more quickly
- Be positioned to achieve its goal for increasing automation coverage
- Consume up to 80% less storage with deduplication
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