Tegile Adopted by Aer Lingus Group

Tegile Systems, Inc. announced that Aer Lingus Group Plc has implemented its Zebi HA2800 arrays to revamp its internal infrastructure and provide the bandwidth necessary to better support end-user needs.

Aer Lingus is the national airline of Ireland whose primary mission is to connect Ireland with the world. It operates a fleet of 58 aircraft, on 116 routes, from central airport locations in Ireland, the UK, mainland Europe and North America, serving in excess of 11 million passengers annually while providing connectivity with its partner airlines. Aer Lingus faced the challenge of how to store huge amounts of data generated from all areas of its global business – from flight reservations to air control to internal communications – in an accessible, economical way.

Unable to scale at the speed necessary to cope with projects such as SQL databases, data warehousing and VDI deployment with its existing EMC storage, Aer Lingus looked to alleviate its problems by assessing other solutions available on the market. After conducting evaluations with various storage companies such as Apache and HP, the airline chose to supplement its EMC solution with Tegile based on the performance and cost effectiveness of its Zebi arrays.

“With the legacy EMC storage, as soon as we reached our storage limit, we had to go back to the vendor to buy additional storage space,” said Brian Price, IT architect, Aer Lingus. “This was both costly and an inefficient use of our IT team’s time. With the implementation of Tegile arrays, storage is no longer an issue at Aer Lingus. The deployment has given us more bang for our buck and allowed a lot more breathing space for our IT team. Tegile arrays offer storage that is rich with features to enhance data management.“

Since its deployment, the IT team has seen benefits with its projects, such as VDI deployment, being launched with ease. Aer Lingus has moved critical data, including its corporate file share, to the Zebi arrays further negating the need to expand its EMC solution. And, by taking advantage of Tegile’s de-duplication and compression features, Aer Lingus is able to update files in real time between each of its two data centers, ensuring BC.

“For companies that need to expand their existing capacity or improve their performance, being locked into legacy hardware can be an expensive and overwhelming proposition,” said Rob Commins, VP marketing, Tegile Systems. “Aer Lingus found that they could supplement their existing EMC solution to gain the performance and scalability that they needed while staying within their cost constraints by leveraging our ‘hybrid solution with a twist,’ allowing them to take advantage of both the future of flash and the capacity of disk. Rather than continually investing in expensive, additional storage space from EMC to cope with the increasing amount of data, Aer Lingus is able to expand its storage capacity more quickly and at a lower price.“

Zebi HA2800 storage arrays leverage the performance of SSD and low cost-per-terabyte of high capacity disk drives to deliver five times the performance and up to 75% less capacity required than legacy arrays. Tegile has architected the performance benefits of SSDs throughout the data path, giving every application a performance boost. One-click VM optimized storage creation can deploy hundreds of VMs and desktops in minutes, not hours. Built-in backup and data replication via unlimited snapshots, cloning and instantaneous restores keeps VMs and desktops protected.