USACI Implementing Tegile Hybrid Arrays

Tegile Systems, Inc.
announced that USACI Corp, a
professional services firm with a specialty in providing hands-on services to
help its clients resolve problems, increase performance, upgrade existing
products, and assist in database design and tuning has implemented Tegile Zebi
arrays to supercharge its XenWinGo cloud services.

USACI provides programming services for custom applications, technical support,
training, QA testing and maintenance. From product development and project
management through implementation and support, it helps customers manage IT
improvements from beginning to end – from formulating the big-picture plan to
addressing the smallest detail.

Through its cloud computing service subsidiary, XenWinGo, it offers a secure cloud solution for SMBs looking to leverage the technology’s
flexibility to match a company’s changing needs.

The range of services XenWinGo offers
include:

• 
  Cloud Services offers offsite storage repository and accessibility
  to data via legacy devices the company is currently using or provides.
• Dynamic Cloud offers cloud access with end-user thin clients –
  designed for start-up companies who have not yet purchased devices or those who
  want to guarantee their data stays in the cloud and is not downloaded by users.
• Clients using the Dynamic cloud see the greatest ROI, saving on laptop/desktop
  refreshes and energy consumption.
• Hyper Cloud is a private-cloud solution designed for companies that
  want their live data to remain within their internal computing infrastructure. XenWinGo delivers and manages a configured physical server with encrypted HA
  backups run daily to an active DR site.

USACI needed an enterprise storage array that could handle the performance and
capacity demands required to deliver its solutions and services to its clients.

The company had a SAN solution in place that wasn’t performing to its
expectations with frequent failures jeopardizing the HA and DR used by
XenWinGo’s Dynamic and Hybrid cloud offerings.

After vetting tier 1 solutions from vendors including NetApp and EMC, USACI
discovered Zebi storage arrays that combined reliable, highly
available hardware with optimized, simple-to-administer software that
could deliver the balance of performance, capacity, features and
price.

After a brief two-hour installation process and an additional two to three
hours to configure the storage repository for its hypervisors, USACI had Zebi
up and running in a Microsoft computing farm complete with Xenservers.

Tegile arrays help USACI deliver its suite of Desktop-as-a-Service, VDR
and IaaS offerings to SMB clients looking to
leverage the benefits that larger organizations enjoy without the management
headaches of complex IT environments.

Since going live, Zebi storage arrays have been providing XenWinGo
with performance, allowing the company to perform updates
without needing to take the system offline.

Concurrent backup of a terabyte of data on eight VMs takes about 40 minutes, far
faster than USACI’s previous SAN solution performed.

According to USASCI president Mark Gigliotti: "I was so impressed with the Tegile solution that we have also become a
reseller of Zebi storage arrays. They have become the primary storage solution
recommended to customers during the system design phase for those in the
midmarket that have either no SAN or an inadequate one and cannot afford more
expensive solutions, such as NetApp."

According to Tegile VP marketing Rob Commins: "Tegile’s unique architecture offers unparalleled functionality,
flexibility and ease of use. This allows USACI to offer its customers a way to
cut storage expenditures in half, triple performance and easily manage
resources without the need for additional staff."