SNR Denton Taps Whiptail SSD Array

When law firm SNR Denton
US LLP decided to upgrade their XenApp environment to Windows 7 on
XenDesktop as part of a new document management deployment, they turned to
Citrix Systems, Inc. to identify infrastructure solutions that could meet their global needs
without breaking the bank.

Citrix Ready storage performance partner, Whiptail Technologies Inc., in silicon storage
arrays company, was the obvious choice.

"We could see almost
right away that traditional storage offerings had nothing to offer that could
meet our storage performance requirements at a rational price point and with a
reasonable datacentre footprint," said Mike Barnas, global IT director
at SNR Denton. "We had an aggressive
deployment plan that required easy implementation and the Whiptail team had an
incredible experience level with XenDesktop that no other vendor could match."

SNR Denton will leverage 72TB of silicon storage via multiple Whiptail
Invicta arrays worldwide that would service thousands of users with HA/DR/business
continuity built in. According to Barnas, after completing their due-diligence
and placing the order, Whiptail was installed and configured within minutes.
From there, all SNR Denton had to do was scale the environment.

"We pride ourselves on
offering a solution that is an immediate game changer for business,"
said Max Riggsbee, CMO at Whiptail. "This
is not just a step in the evolution of storage devices, it’s a transformation
in the way business gets done."

With their virtual desktop solution in place, SNR Denton was able to
take disruptive events like the NATO conference in Chicago and
the upcoming London Olympics and make them practically irrelevant to their
daily operations.

"Employees have full
work-at-home access with no delays to our messaging and productivity software,
and, most importantly, to our document management system," said Scott
Smithberger, lead global Citrix architect. "We’ve also seen benefits in terms of lower training and support costs
that would not have been possible if Whiptail didn’t perform beyond our
expectations."

SNR Denton and Whiptail appeared at Storage
Decisions in Chicago, June 19-20.

Whiptail Invicta is an enterprise-class,
scale-out, HA, modular and multi-protocol 100% NAND flash
storage array. Each scaled Invicta runs on less
than 1400 watts and supports up to 72TB of MLC flash with 650,000 IOs and
sub-millisecond latency in a 14U array while populated with cost-effective MLC
flash drives.

The array is tuned to reduce latency in high I/O environments and
possesses a proprietary operating system designed to overcome the write
performance and longevity challenges typically associated with MLC flash. Whiptail
is also an all silicon storage array vendor to offer Premium
Global Customer Support (GSC) which includes support levels as high as global
four hour on-site support to meet expectation within the enterprise.