Connectria Partners With Tegile

Connectria
Hosting, a provider of cloud, managed and custom hosting
solutions, announced a partnership with Tegile
Systems, Inc. to improve the storage capacity, efficiency and performance of its
Citrix and VDI offerings.

With four data centers throughout the US
and more than 1,000 clients worldwide, Connectria provides hosting solutions that
solve the business problems of its customers reliably, securely and
efficiently. It hosts a wide range of cloud technologies in the
industry for customers of all sizes. With the success and growth of its cloud
hosting services, Connectria needed a storage solution that could complement
its existing network architecture while addressing the long-term capacity,
performance and scalability requirements demanded of its virtualization and
cloud computing customers.

Connectria turned to Tegile Systems during
a proof-of-concept VDI implementation for a large healthcare company when the
number of VMs introduced began to tax their existing storage infrastructure and
needed to be expanded. By swapping out the existing storage for new-generation
Tegile Zebi hybrid storage arrays, Connectria was able to manage the fluid
requirements of the healthcare provider’s VDI environment easier, faster and
more reliably at a vastly reduced cost compared to other arrays.

"We
offer a wide range of services to SMBs and Enterprises along with customized
HIPAA-compliant solutions to healthcare and dental customers designed to safely
and securely store protected information," said Rusty Putzler, VP of engineering
at Connectria. "When we realized
that we needed a different class of storage to satisfy the higher capacity and
higher growth requirements of a VDI infrastructure at one of our healthcare
customers, we turned to Tegile’s Zebi arrays to fulfill that tactical need.
With inline deduplication of 87% and 33% compression ratios, Tegile has
provided us with outstanding performance at a cost per TB that is perfectly
geared towards virtualized environments."

Zebi arrays leverage the
performance of SSD and the low cost per terabyte of high capacity disk drives to
deliver up to seven times the performance and up to 75% less capacity required
than legacy arrays. Zebi hybrid arrays combine Tegile’s patent-pending MASS
technology with high performance DRAM, solid state flash, Xeon
processors and high speed Ethernet or FC, resulting in higher capacity and
higher performance. Maximizing capacity, on-the-fly de-duplication and data
compression enable more hosted virtual desktops for a lower investment in
storage and network infrastructure.

"Whether it is cloud storage
for SMBs, VDIs for a particular vertical market like healthcare or
business-critical databases in some of the world’s most-demanding environments,
Tegile Zebi Storage Arrays are up to the challenge of resolving growth issues
and providing flash-grade performance without the cost of all flash arrays or
legacy arrays," said Rob Commins, VP marketing, Tegile. "We are pleased to work with Connectria as
part of their hosting services to bring their customers the capacity,
performance and cost effectiveness they need without the investment and
management challenges required from legacy equipment."