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Northwest Nazarene University Prefers Tegile Flash System

Following hardware, controller and disk failures, and OS compatibility issues with Nimble Storage

Tegile Systems, Inc. announced that Northwest Nazarene University (NNU) has selected its flash storage system to provide the reliability and performance needed to support its mission-critical ERP system.

Northwest Nazarene University

Founded in 1913, NNU is a nonprofit Christian liberal arts university that offers more than 60 areas of study, master’s degree programs in seven disciplines, accelerated degree programs, concurrent credit for high school students and a variety of continuing education credits. The university serves more than 2,000 full-time undergraduate and graduate students, more than 6,000 continuing education students and 2,300 high school students through its concurrent credit program.

Looking to purchase its first performance SAN to support its ERP system, IT administrators at NNU chose to implement a solution from Nimble Storage, Inc. However, frequent hardware, controller and disk failures, and OS compatibility issues led to the selection of a Tegile array when budget allowed for a second SAN to support increased capacity needs.

With Tegile installed and operational, NNU has the product quality and performance it needs to support its workload. The university has increased its initial 16TB Tegile capacity with a 20TB expansion shelf and is replacing its Nimble Storage with a Tegile T3100 to better support its growing infrastructure.

The big concern when you’re running an ERP system is the number of IO/s,” said Sal Simili, director of IT, NNU. “It just seems like we’re not touching the Tegile array’s performance. Our requirement is 10,000 or more IO/s available and it’s like this thing is just cruising. We’re barely using it. It’s like driving a Ferrari at 25 mph.

IT managers in education institutions must support a range of workloads-everything from VDIs to student registration databases and departmental research. With each application and end user competing for storage resources, it can be difficult to deliver consistent performance and maintain 24×7 availability without seeing storage costs spiral out of control. Tegile Flash Arrays enable the transformation of an institution’s IT infrastructure, delivering fast performance and high levels of availability at a cost that’s one-third of traditional storage arrays.

I’m glad that we had the opportunity to help overcome the performance and reliability issues suffered by Northwest Nazarene University after the failures of their first high-performance SAN implementation,” said Rob Commins, VP marketing, Tegile. “Tegile’s all-flash and hybrid storage solutions are built to deliver the high IO/s and low latency that educational institutions need so they can accelerate applications and provide a more enriched, engaging experience to end users. We look forward to being a key component of their virtualized environment for years to come.

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