MVision Private Equity Advisers Deployed Tintri VMstore

Tintri Inc. announced that international alternative assets
advisory firm MVision Private Equity
Advisers Ltd has deployed Tintri VMstore to support its VDI.

MVision is benefiting from faster remote access to the company network for its
mobile workforce, as well as greater performance and centralized maintenance.

MVision implemented Tintri as part of a VDI project, replacing Windows 2008
Terminal Services to improve performance, reduce complexity and provide a more
efficient remote working solution.

MVision’s business needs necessitate staff to work on large and
graphics-heavy documents and applications. Also, many of the employees
frequently travel, accessing and working on these documents remotely. The
existing solution using terminal services became unproductive and inconsistent.
With sites in London, New York, Hong Kong and Sydney, time zone differences
were also making it difficult to perform maintenance tasks without disrupting
business in at least one office.

George Kyriazis, IT director, MVision, said: "We decided in summer 2012 to move away from distributed terminal
services on four continents and implement a modern virtual desktop architecture
while centralizing the infrastructure in London. As we started looking into
VDI, we realized the important role storage played in implementing a high
performance VDI. We brought in Tintri for a POC which quickly validated our
plan for a centralized architecture."

The VDI solution with Tintri provides MVision staff with easier and faster
remote connectivity to their desktop VMs. What could previously take up to 10
minutes to remotely access business applications now takes just a fews. Users
benefit from rapid application launch and handling of very large files due to
Tintri’s flash-first architecture. Tintri also helped consolidate virtual desktops
and server VMs on the same storage, increasing operational efficiency, and was
key in halving the execution time of complex CRM database queries.

"VDI solution with Tintri has been
successful for both end users and IT staff managing the solution. VDI solution
with Tintri provided high performance and excellent responsiveness to end users
even under heavy usage greatly increasing user productivity. Centralizing the
infrastructure has provided economy of data and resource utilisation and
allowed IT staff to carry out database and network maintenance even during
business hours without disrupting service at any of our sites,"
continued Kyriazis.

Geoff Stedman, VP marketing, Tintri said: "VDI is an increasingly popular option for IT departments seeking to
simplify desktop management tasks and centralize security and data protection,
while supporting a mobile workforce that prefer using tablets to laptops. VDI
projects often stall or even fail altogether due to storage costs, management
complexity and user limitations. It has become abundantly clear that modern
virtualized infrastructure requires a modern approach to storage."