Tintri Inc. announced a scale-out storage platform in the Middle East and North Africa to enable enterprises and cloud service providers (CSPs) to build their own Amazon-like cloud infrastructure for diverse virtualized workloads.

VMstore T5000

The platform forms the foundation for the firm’s scale-out, with support for up to 160,000 VMs, 10 petabytes of capacity, and 6.4 million IO/s, for less than $1/GB. StorIT Distribution fzco, specialist data management solutions distributor in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) will be distributing the platform along with company’s existing portfolio.

StorIT will also help the firm to distribute nine VMstore T5000 all flash models with capacity expansion capabilities, VM Scale-out software, company’s Analytics for predictive capacity and performance planning, and two new Tintri cloud offerings across the region. The simplicity of VAS enables organizations to scale from 17TB to 10PB with a common platform and less than one full time employee dedicated to storage management.

“Scale is a defining characteristic of cloud. While many companies aspire to build cloud-scale infrastructures with agility and automation for diverse virtualized workloads, they are held back by conventional storage architecture that’s simply not designed to support those requirements,” said Ken Klein, chairman and CEO, Tintri. “Customers have been forced to choose between limited scale-out that requires a large number of disks or expensive and inefficient scale-out, without the benefits of VM-level visibility, QoS and automation. With today’s announcement, enterprises and CSPs can scale far more effectively-building their own Amazon-like cloud infrastructure-with a VAS platform that allows for control, security, cost efficiency and simplicity.”

Scale-out storage platform:
Built on VAS foundation for modern storage scale-out with following characteristics:

• Federated pool of storage. The federated node design treats multiple company’s VMstores-both all-flash and hybrid-flash nodes-as a pool of storage, greatly simplifying management, planning and resource allocation.

• Scalability and performance. The storage platform is designed to scale to more than one million VMs. Separation of control flow from data flow ensures low latency and scalability to a very large number of storage nodes.

• Scale from small to very large with new and existing, all flash and hybrid, partially or fully populated systems.

• VM and software based. Based on software intelligence that delivers consistent performance for virtualized and cloud applications. It works across any standard high performance Ethernet network, eliminating the need for proprietary interconnects. The VM Scale-out software automatically provides best placement recommendation for VMs.

• Scale compute and storage independently. Loose coupling of storage and compute provides customers with maximum flexibility to scale these elements independently.

VMstore T5000 All-Flash with expansion capabilities:
configuration options for customers:
The company first introduced the VMstore T5000 all-flash series in August 2015. Today, all three models, the T5040, T5060 and T5080, are updated with new capacity options ranging from 17 to 308 TB. These systems leverage the 3D NAND technology and high density drives to offer organizations both higher capacity and lower $/GB. In the future, the firm will also enable capacity upgrades with some of these models to allow customers to scale up their individual VMstores. Combined with VAS VM-level capabilities and VM Scale-out software, customers can scale with complete flexibility, growing from one T5040 all flash system to 32 fully populated T5080s.

VM Scale-out Software provides following capabilities:

• Predictive analytics derived from one million statistics collected every 10 minutes from 30 days of history, accounting for peak loads instead of average loads, for the most accurate predictions. Deep workload analysis identifies VMs that are growing rapidly and applies sophisticated algorithms to model the growth ahead and avoid resource constraints.

• Least-cost optimization based on multi-dimensional modeling. Control algorithm constantly optimizes across the thousands of VMs in each pool of VMstores, taking into account space savings, resources required by each VM, and the cost in time and data to move VMs, and makes the least-cost recommendation for VM migration that optimizes the pool.

• Retain VM policy settings and stats. When a VM is moved, not only are the snapshots moved with the VM, the statistics, protection and QoS policies migrate as well using efficient compressed and deduplicated replication protocol.

• Support for all major hypervisors.

“We’ve recently partnered with Tintri in the MENA region as its VM-aware storage is ideal for customers who require storage for virtualized environments. Our customers require simplified management and high performance and with the new scale out storage platform from Tintri customers will have the ability to grow their own IT infrastructure. Unlike traditional scale out storage the Tintri solution can support tens of thousands of VMs, perfect for any enterprise or growing organization. There is also the added bonus of Tintri’s predictive analytics which will automate the entire process and guarantee QoS,” commented Suren Vedantham, MD, StorIT Distribution.

Tintri Analytics
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Analytics
The firm has always offered real-time, VM-level analytics as part of its company’s OS and Global Center management system. Today, this foundation expands to include a SaaS offering of predictive analytics that provides organizations the ability to model both capacity and performance requirements. Powered by big data engines such as Apache Spark and Elasticsearch, Analytics is capable of analyzing stats from 500,000 VMs over several years in one second. By mining the rich VM-level metadata, Analytics provides customers with information about their environment to help them make better decisions about applications’ behaviors and storage needs.

Cloud suites
Company’s cloud combines the power of the Scale-out platform and the performance of all-flash VMstores, with the simplicity of its extensive VAS software portfolio to enable organizations to build their own private cloud.

Customers can start with a single VMstore T5040 with 17 TB of effective capacity and scale out to the Tintri Foundation cloud with 1.2PB in as few as eight rack units. Or they can grow all the way to the Ultimate Cloud, which delivers a 10PB cloud-ready storage infrastructure for up to 160,000 VMs, delivering over 6.4 million IO/s in 64 RU for less than $1/GB effective. And firm’s VM-aware storage is so easy to manage that organizations need less than one full time employee to manage their company’s footprint as they scale from 17TB to 10PB.

Both the Foundation cloud and Ultimate cloud include company’s complete set of software offerings for storage management, VM-level analytics, VM Scale-out, replication, QoS, and lifecycle management.

Availability and packaging
The VMstore T5000 All-Flash Series with new capacity options is available later this month through the company and authorized resellers.

Firm’s Analytics is available to customers with current VMstore support contracts.

VM Scale-out will be available through Global Center Advanced, which will be available in June 2016 as both a separate software license and a part of the firm’s Software Suite, which consists of Global Center Advanced, ReplicateVM, SecureVM and SyncVM. Existing Global Center Standard customers may also purchase upgrades to Global Center Advanced.

Foundation Cloud and Ultimate Cloud will be available for purchase in June 2016 through the company and authorized resellers.

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2016.05.27 | Press Release