Medical Research Institute Selects Tintri

Tintri, Inc., the producer of VM-aware storage appliances, announced that Semmes-Murphey, a research
institute for neurological and spinal disorders, has deployed the
Tintri VMstore appliance for both server virtualization and virtual desktop
workloads.

Semmes-Murphey chose Tintri over a number of legacy storage vendors, citing
superior performance and cost savings as the primary factors in their decision.
Currently, Semmes-Murphey is running more than 300 virtual desktops and 50
virtual servers on Tintri, supporting applications such as Citrix XenApp and
Microsoft SharePoint. They also plan to use Tintri VMstore to help virtualize
GE Centricity Practice Solution, an application that stores patient medical
records and handles medical billing.

Since deploying Tintri in September 2011 to support the first
cluster of virtual machines, Semmes-Murphey has progressively added 275 more
virtual machines (VMs) without having to provision any new storage or add a
single new datastore. This has freed up valuable time for its IT department.
Semmes-Murphey also purchased an additional Tintri appliance to
support a project which will virtualize a number of tier-1 applications,
including GE Centricity and Microsoft Exchange 2010.

"We chose Tintri because
they offered superior performance at a better price point than other, larger storage
vendors," said Drazen Vamplin, IT manager for Semmes-Murphey. "We’ve been extremely satisfied, and the
performance we’ve seen to date has exceeded our high expectations; we were able
to run over 350 VMs on just a single Tintri appliance with no performance
drop-off. As a result, we’ve chosen to purchase a second system from Tintri,
and we’re more than confident deploying our most important applications on
their system."

"The benefits realized by
Semmes-Murphey provide strong validation for the notion of VM-aware storage,"
said Kieran Harty, Tintri CEO. "In
just over six months with Tintri in production, they have already seen clear
payoff in running their virtual infrastructure on our system. We look forward
to expanding our relationship with them and continuing to challenge
conventional wisdom around the limits of storage for virtual environments."