Tegile Teams Up With Veeam

Tegile Systems, Inc. has aligned with Veeam Software, Inc. to provide organizations with a VM-aware backup and restore solution.

Tegile’s Zebi generation of flash-driven storage arrays are designed to make server virtualization more scalable and less expensive, allowing IT personnel to manage more hypervisors at a lower cost than with standard HDD-based arrays. When used in conjunction with these storage arrays, Veeam Backup and Replication completes backup jobs 300% faster than local disk while performing restore operations 20% faster in Tegile lab testing compared to standard disk systems, helping organizations meet their RTOs with as little manual management as possible.

“While virtualization offers a tremendous amount of benefits on the server side, its use can add layers of complexity to the storage and backup side of the equation,” said Warren Adair, VP information technology, Donahue Schriber Realty Group. “With both Veeam and Tegile being VM-aware solutions, they simplify the management of VMs independently but when used together, they take it to an even higher level. The combined attributes of Veeam and Tegile make it possible for us to concentrate on managing our business rather than our backup and storage processes.“

Veeam Backup and Replication provides recovery of virtualized applications and data. It unifies backup and replication in a solution, increases the value of backup, and reinvents data protection for vSphere and Hyper-V virtual environments.

Zebi 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. The company has architected the performance benefits of SSDs throughout the data path, giving applications a performance boost. One-click VM optimized storage creation can deploy hundreds of VMs and desktops in minutes, not hours.

“The simple fact is that trying to backup and store virtualized data with 20- to 30-year-old management techniques just isn’t going to cut it,” said Rob Commins, VP marketing, Tegile. “The combination of Veeam’s VM-aware backup and Tegile’s VM-aware storage is a nice marriage. It allows the IT guys to figure out which VM is associated with which array to simplify management and provide ease of use while ensuring that backups and restores can occur magnitudes of order faster than local disk.“