Tegile Ships 1,000 Zebi Arrays

Tegile Systems, Inc., a provider of flash-driven storage arrays for virtualized server and virtual desktop environments, shipped its 1,000th Zebi storage array since making the solution available two years ago.

The line of solutions, which balance performance, capacity, features and price, has been deployed by companies across a range of industries to help them overcome storage challenges associated with VDI, server virtualization, database hosting, and file services.

Zebi storage arrays leverage the performance of SSD and low cost per terabyte of high capacity disk drives, delivering as much as seven times the performance and up to 75% less capacity required than legacy arrays. This approach has seen marked adoption rates among companies that need faster performance than HDD-based arrays but with less expense than SSD-based arrays.

“Customers looking to make the most of their flash investments are buying solutions like Tegile’s whose architectures have been specifically optimized for the use of flash,” said Eric Burgener, research director, IDC’s storage practice. “Their ability to hit the 1,000 unit mark within two years of release shows that their offering is well matched to the requirements of this rapidly growing market, which IDC expects will reach $12.3 billion in 2016.“

Hundreds of customers in the education, financial services, manufacturing, government, legal, healthcare and transportation industries have deployed Zebi arrays, with many existing users ordering supplementary units to support additional workloads and/or for use in different lines of business.

“Tegile came out and looked at what we had, assessed our needs in the timeframe we had and implemented a solution in the middle of an outage,” said Jeremy Heide, CIO, School District 27J. “They worked with the VMware engineer that was helping us to design a storage system that would address our unique challenges and was able to deliver the Zebi solution within a week of us placing the order.“

“I understood everything that this piece of hardware and the software does in under an hour, and it was an easy hour,” Tom Trujillo, IT manager, Broadcast Interactive Media, LLC. “I was like a kid at Christmas, it was incredible to me. When they say a user-friendly interface, this really a user-friendly interface.“

“The best thing about the people we dealt with at Tegile is they came from all these big Fortune 500 companies, like Microsoft and VMware, so there is broad expertise they brought to the table” said Jay Larson, decision support manager, Mary Lanning Healthcare. “It seems like every time I call the support line at Tegile, I get exactly the right person. If I’m having a Microsoft issue, I get the person who used to work at Microsoft. He says: ‘You need to do this and this,’ and I’m done. It’s far and above the best support I’ve had lately.“

“I’ve been in the IT business for 25 years and this is the strongest customer support I have seen. These people bend over backwards,” said Vincent Lo, VP of applications and support, Bank of Stockton. “It just doesn’t happen for people to deliver at their level of service. I would not count on that with any other major company that I deal with. You just don’t get that level of commitment from a vendor.“

Zebi arrays are sold exclusively through the company’s reseller partner eco-system to provide customers with products and services to meet their IT infrastructure needs. Tegile provides dedicated sales and technical resources to resellers to help close new business while its architecture offers the functionality, flexibility and ease of use needed to cut storage expenditures in half, triple performance and manage storage without adding staff. Customers have the option to purchase units outright, lease them or go with a capacity-utilization model through Tegile’s Agility Pricing Program.

“It isn’t enough to simply have a concept that you think will improve upon organizations’ information overload, you’ve got to execute with a solution that delivers what you say it will,” said Rob Commins, VP marketing, Tegile. “Zebi arrays have found the sweet spot for hundreds of customers, allowing them to optimize their storage infrastructure without breaking the bank. We have found success as quickly as we have, shipping 1,000 units of our Zebi storage arrays in two years, by providing leading performance, a rich feature set and superior service while understanding the cost constraints that our customers operate under.“