Nimble Storage announced that new VDI reference architectures powered by the company’s CS-Series arrays have been made available via the VMware View Rapid Desktop Program to customers of the virtualization giant.

“The program enables customers to quickly deploy comprehensive VDI systems, building on proven and tested reference architectures that map to real-world requirements for successful VDI and are integrated through VMware’s VDI environment, VMware View. Reference architectures enable integration of system components and software, enabling customers to quickly adopt and deploy pretested systems to meet their needs.”

Desktop virtualization is big in the enterprise and is only getting bigger, which is why Nimble and others are jumping on the bandwagon. The company says that the architectures have been designed with real-life environments’ in mind, and that they’ve been tested jointly with Computex, a Nimble partner that’s headquartered in Texas.

Nimble Storage offers scalability, economics and other features that are being addressed by several other competing vendors in today’s market.  But the hardware maker has a few case studies under its belt that emphasize the agenda of differentiating itself from the rest of the market in a few different ways. One of the latest is a report covering the Florida Blood Bank’s use of Nimble CS240 storage arrays to power its VDI infrastructure across a few dozen offices. The organization leverages a total of four arrays that serve branches across the state as well the neighboring Georgia.

VMware in turn is also working on expanding its footprint in the desktop virtualization space, where competitor Citrix has a large presence. Mobile has been one area of focus for the majority-owned EMC subsidiary, which is currently fleshing out an Android app that can create two separate profiles – one for work and one for personal use – on a business user’s device.  More recently, VMware partnered up with Symantec to roll out additional endpoint protection, policy compliance and other security enhancements throughout its portfolio.