Ohio-Based Makino Chooses Tintri

Tintri, Inc. announced that Makino, Inc., a
manufacturing, engineering and integration services company, has deployed the
Tintri VMstore appliance to support virtualizing applications including SAP,
SQL Server, SharePoint, Active directory and XenApp.

Since deploying Tintri, Makino has reduced the number of datastores in its
virtual environment by a factor of 40.

Prior to Tintri, Makino had been unable to virtualize its most important
business applications. Their previous storage solution, which consisted of
several FC block-storage systems, required day-to-day management
and was unable to meet the performance demands of virtualized applications.

Makino chose Tintri because its VM-aware architecture delivered
performance and simplified management, reducing the number of VMware vSphere
datastores. It needed to support from 40 to just one. It
also gained visibility into VM-level latency to pinpoint
performance bottlenecks.

"We had maxed out performance on our
existing storage and we would have had to add much more just to meet
performance requirements for our business-critical applications," said
Glenn Hensley, IT infrastructure manager at Makino. "We have a small IT team, so we wanted to move to a storage system that
eliminated the need to create dozens of LUNs and datastores – and instead
allowed us to manage VMs directly. We chose the Tintri VMstore appliance for
our virtual environment for its cost-effective performance and management
simplicity. Setting up Tintri could not be any easier."

"Makino was facing a number of
performance hurdles that were preventing it from virtualizing many of its
business-critical applications," said Kieran Harty, Tintri CEO. "They were able to overcome these issues with
our VM-aware storage solution, which also drastically streamlines the
management process for virtual environments, allowing administrators to quickly
troubleshoot performance issues and focus on the larger task at hand."