Kawasaki Relies on Tintri for VDI Management

Tintri, Inc. announced that Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp. USA, a transportation manufacturer, has deployed Tintri VMstore to support its VDI project – which is currently running over 200 virtual desktops, with plans to more than double that number in the coming months.

Kawasaki had previously relied on a legacy storage system from Dell, but ran into performance hurdles once its VDI deployment approached 100 virtual desktops.

After evaluating a number of alternatives, Kawasaki selected Tintri as the primary storage for its VDI project, which also utilizes Unidesk and Citrix Xen Desktop. Kawasaki cited the management console, which allows users to troubleshoot on a per-VM basis to identify and isolate performance issues, as well as its price per virtual workload, as major factors in its decision to select Tintri. These features were important for Kawasaki, since their VDI project serves over 700 employees – with an IT infrastructure staff of just four individuals.

“When you’re managing the entire IT environment for an organization of our size and scope, time and simplicity are of the utmost importance,” said Paul Kramer, assistant manager at Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp. USA. “Tintri’s approach to managing storage for VDI – and virtualized environments in general – is incredibly efficient, and we’ve barely scratched the surface in terms of capacity. It has drastically reduced the cost and complexity that we’d previously dealt with in managing our VDI project, and it’s allowed us to accelerate the deployment of new virtual desktops with no performance drop-off whatsoever.“

“The Kawasaki use case is a powerful testament to how we can help organizations save time and money when it comes to deploying storage for VDI,” said Geoff Stedman, VP marketing at Tintri. “It has become abundantly clear that modern virtualized infrastructure requires a modern approach to storage that eliminates the need for physical storage constructs like LUNs and volumes.“