Tegile Helps Egan Company Overcome VDI Storage Challenges

Tegile Systems, Inc. announced that Egan Company, a multi-trade, specialty construction contractor and system integrator in the Midwest, has deployed VDI with its hybrid flash storage arrays to reduce capacity needs with ample IO/s for thousands of persistent desktops.

With a workforce representing more than 15 building trades serving virtually every infrastructure discipline in the industry, Egan company has more than a thousand workers dispersed among its Brooklyn Park, Minnesota HQs, four permanent remote sites and myriad temporary job sites. A staff of eight IT personnel manage the sprawling VDI.

The company needed a storage solution with high speed to satisfy the IO/s requirements of the Horizon View and vSphere implementation; was easy to provision and could self-tune to overcome staffing limitations; was efficient to keep ever-ballooning data manageable; and would work with its existing FC architecture yet would allow for the use of NFS and iSCSI if needed. After a side-by-side comparison, Egan company chose Tegile because of its multi-protocol architecture, fast performance and deduplication and inline compression that reduced floor space and power consumption.

“Tegile, I really feel, is storage done right,” said Jim Nonn, CIO, Egan company. “It’s given us a lot of flexibility to do some things I didn’t think really were possible. Wit their de-dupe and compression, we were able to take our storage and make it in a much smaller footprint. Also, with their speed, we can get our maintenance in the middle of the day.“

As the size and scale of an organization’s VDI deployment increases, it needs a storage system that can keep up with the performance demands of virtual desktops, without compromising end-user experience. With the speed and responsiveness of Tegile flash arrays, companies can cut down the time required for doing regular VDI maintenance tasks. Tegile arrays provide large amounts of sustained IO/s while being able to handle any type of I/O with sub-millisecond latency regardless of the number of virtual desktops. Duplicate data from OS images, applications, libraries and user-specific applications that are spread across virtual desktops are automatically identified and reduced by inline deduplication and compression capabilities of Tegile flash arrays. Organizations can achieve greater than 10-to-1 reduction in storage footprint when deploying a large number of virtual desktops – all this without compromising performance.

“VDI has the potential to greatly simplify desktop management and give end users unprecedented flexibility, however, as you scale from hundreds to thousands of users, it can be difficult to continue to deliver a rich desktop experience without hitting the storage I/O wall or seeing your storage costs spiral out of control,” said Rob Commins, VP marketing, Tegile. “We were able to help Egan company manage their organic growth without adding IT head count while providing the fast performance they wanted with the storage capacity reduction they needed.“