Foodservice Industry RTI Selects StorTrends

StorTrends (American Megatrends, Inc.) announced that RTI Inc. has deployed its storage appliances to optimize storage operations for its high demand data center that support major fast-food restaurant customers across the world.

Using StorTrends, RTI is able to meet its SQL performance requirements while also implementing security, reliability and protection of critical data assets.

Since 1985, RTI has helped some of the most well-known companies in the food-service industry such as McDonalds, Wendy’s, Arby’s, Moe’s, Checkers and many more. The RTI restaurant back-office software, RTIconnect, meets the operational needs of these quick-service and fast-casual industries. RTIconnect helps its customers succeed, day in and day out, with the critical task of controlling food and labor costs.

RTI needed a reliable, performance storage array to support the data center that manages its operations for these major fast-food customers. Looking to achieve HA for its SQL servers with the flexibility to scale as customer demands increase, It considered many storage options. After  evaluations, RTI chose StorTrends.

“We needed something that was going to perform at the level our SQL servers needed,” said Phil Blakely, network and systems administrator, RTI. “The specification certainly seemed to be there and price-wise StorTrends compared favorably against other devices in its same class. We found that metrics such as IO/s, throughput, capacity and replication – as well as the flexibility of being able to connect to multiple devices of StorTrends products were higher than our current solution and in the range that we wanted to be.“

Since deploying the StorTrends storage solution, RTI has been pleased with its performance. It supported thin provisioning, auto-tiering and caching to provide the performance boost RTI was searching for. Now the company is well positioned for future growth as it scales to support more customers.

Key StorTrends features that have benefitted RTI include:

• Data caching engine for performance and acceleration of I/Os
• Auto-tiering for the movement of data between hot, warm and cold data tiers
• Ssnapshots for rapid recovery points in the event of file-based recovery or volume rollback
• Zoned-Bit Recording (ZBR) where the hottest data resides on the fastest outer tracks of the spinning disk for improved latency
• Data replication, deduplication, compression, encryption, WAN optimization and more

“For companies, like RTI, that require high performance storage, such as All-Flash or Hybrid SANs, StorTrends offers an industry leading feature-rich solution with a budget-friendly price tag,” said Justin Bagby, director, StorTrends. “Data is the critical information that fuels businesses to grow and compete in the digital driven economy. They simple can’t afford any downtime or to allocate managed time for babysitting a storage array. That’s why we have built a highly reliable, robust storage solution that is easily managed while providing superior protection for customer’s critical assets along with the ability to easily add capacity on-the-fly. For customers like RTI, it’s easy to see why the StorTrends tag-line is: Performance Storage. Proven Value.“