Tintri Selected by F5 Networks

Tintri, Inc. announced that F5 Networks, Inc., in application delivery networking, has deployed its VM-aware storage appliance to support its test
and development environment.

Using Tintri, F5 was able to improve storage performance within its product
development VM environment, as well as reduce the amount of storage
capacity dedicated to its VMs by over 75%.

F5 selected Tintri because its flash-based
performance and VM-aware approach allowed them to overcome storage performance
bottlenecks inherent to VM environments. These storage bottlenecks had
previously inhibited F5 from supporting a larger number of VMs for test and
development. F5 also cited Tintri’s management console for
allowing them to scale their VM
environment to support over 1,500 VMs.

"Tintri
has helped us increase developer productivity by unblocking storage performance
issues and providing consistent performance even when running 1,500 VMs,"
said Yens Jimenez Steller, manager of the F5 product development lab in
Seattle, WA. "Thanks to Tintri, we
have a VM storage solution that provides the storage performance we need in
small footprint – saving space, power and cooling in the datacenter and
allowing us to scale efficiently. Compared to our previous storage, Tintri
VMstore can accommodate twice the IO/s at less than a third of the latency and
one fourth the footprint, allowing us to support a growing number of VMs in our
lab."

"Organizations running VMs on
legacy storage solutions are frustrated by recurring performance bottlenecks
and overprovisioning issues," said Geoff Stedman, Tintri VP marketing.
"As companies from across the board
continue to deploy large-scale VM infrastructures, they’re increasingly
demanding a purpose-built storage solution that can support a large number of
VMs without wasting capacity. We’re glad to be working with F5, and they’re a
great example of how flash-based, VM-aware storage can bring real business
benefit."