Renasant Bank Has Chosen 6TB WhipTail SSD Array

WhipTail Tech, Inc.,maker of
solid-state based storage arrays,
announced that Renasant Bank has chosen a 6TB WhipTail solid-state XLR8r array
to bring its Citrix XenDesktop VDI deployment
to life.

"Our VDI deployment was at a standstill. We
couldn’t get our pilot group past a certain performance threshold because of
the limitation of our current hardware infrastructure," said James
Hayes, Senior Vice President and Network Operations Manager of Renasant Bank.
"Our peers were recommending we look
into WhipTail’s XLR8r – that with its performance, price and ease of use, it
may be the missing link we were looking for. As it turns out, they were right."

The WhipTail
XLR8r is an SSD array that supports up to 12TB 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. Not a caching appliance or PCIe card,
the XLR8r is tuned for low latency, high IO environments; extends life
of flash drives to beyond 7.5 years while optimizing the underlying flash
architecture; and runs on less than 200 watts.

"A VDI environment offers many advantages,
from data security to management, etc.; it’s the process of actually deploying
the underlying infrastructure that’s emerged as the most significant problem.
80-90 percent of VDI’s IO requirements are small, random write IOPS – a
requirement existing storage networks are simply not designed to fulfill,"
said Brian Feller, CMO and VP Strategic Alliances at WhipTail. "With the XLR8r, a company does not need to
rip and replace anything; the XLR8r complements their existing storage vendor
and the Citrix XenDesktop solution seamlessly. With its 250,000 write IOPS, you
could say the XLR8r was built for VDI."

Renasant Bank
is owned by Renasant Corporation, a 107-year-old financial institution that
operates over 75 banking and insurance offices within Mississippi, Tennessee,
Alabama and Georgia.