Long-Term Health Care Provider Chooses WhipTail SSD Array

WhipTail Tech
announced that UHS-Pruitt Corporation,
a southeast regional leader in long-term health care, has selected two 12TB WhipTail
solid-state XLR8r arrays to support the 20,000 IOPS (and growing) required
for its Citrix
XenApp and XenDesktop
farm.

Since its inception in 1969 as the Toccoa
Nursing Center, the UHS-Pruitt community of services has grown to
encapsulate more than 70 post-acute, skilled nursing and assisted living
locations, as well as an array of supplementary resources including home health
care, end-of-life care, rehabilitation, veteran care and consultative
pharmaceutical services. UHS-Pruitt employs more than 15,000 people and
services communities in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

"We needed a solution that would
immediately support the 20,000 IOPS required for our existing Citrix farm and
provide 100 percent growth every six months to a year. We also wanted to
maintain complete redundancy with the hardware supporting this Citrix farm.
Rather than invest in the existing centralized storage environment for what
equates to virtual desktops, which could impact the applications it supports,
we wanted to isolate this VDI performance bottleneck. We were looking for a
single solution vendor that could do that and fit the budget," said
Rich Bailey, Executive Director, Infrastructure Operations, for UHS-Pruitt.
"WhipTail provides an integrated
solid state appliance approach, while alternative solutions required another
vendor to provide software or hardware. The XLR8r has given us the flexibility
to add an additional storage tier without the performance and capital costs we
would have incurred with other options."

The WhipTail XLR8r is an SSD array that supports up to 12 TB of MLC flash in an
industry standard rack-mounted 2U form factor. The XLR8r’s patent-pending
design overcomes the write performance and longevity challenges typically
associated with cost-effective MLC flash technology.

"What Rich and
UHS-Pruitt experienced is prevalent across the industry: clients of all shapes
and sizes are anxious to realize the value of broad adoption of virtualized
applications and desktops, yet are confronted with an overwhelming performance
challenge. How do they expand when the storage costs are punitive? As with our
previous clients who have deployed tens of thousands of virtualized users in
production on the XLR8r, UHS-Pruitt is leveraging the speed, performance and
compelling TCO that it provides," said Brian Feller, CMO and VP
Strategic Alliances at WhipTail. "With
the XLR8r, we provide our customers with super fast storage at a cost point
that leaves plenty of monies left in the budget to be utilized elsewhere."

WhipTail will be demonstrating the benefits of its XLR8r solution at Citrix
Synergy Barcelona, taking place October 26–28.