Tegile: Third Gen of Hybrid and All-Flash Systems

Tegile Systems, Inc. introduced the two entries into its product line that balance data management, performance and economics – the T3400, which provides a flexible amount of high-density SSDs and metadata-accelerated high-density HDD; and the T3800, the company’s newest all-flash array that eliminates the top three customer challenges associated with offerings from other all-flash vendors.

T3800

The T3800 features high-density enterprise flash SSDs designed to support mission-critical applications that require high performance at low latency for extended periods of time. Issues that customers typically have with all-flash storage systems are expensive price per gigabyte, short-lived components and lack of density comparative to HDD systems have been rendered obsolete with the introduction of the T3800. In a typical mixed-application environment, Tegile achieves a 5X data reduction to realize a $1/GB street price. The array’s 10PB per drive endurance allows Tegile to offer a seven-year warranty without the need for periodic wholesale system upgrades. At 55 effective TB per U, the T3800 goes beyond traditional HDD-based array density.

Tegile’s previous hybrid array had approximately 5% of its capacity in flash. With the introduction of the T3400, Tegile now offers a storage architecture featuring half of its capacity in flash SSDs and half in HDDs, resulting in a 20X increase in flash density over previous models. The T3400 base configuration includes 22TB of high-density flash storage and a 2.2TB metadata acceleration engine. Optional upgrades include HDD expansion shelves with either 24 or 72 raw terabytes; or SSD expansion shelves with either 48 or 144 raw terabytes.

“Tegile might be known as a hybrid storage company, but the extensibility of its architecture makes offering a leadership-class, all-flash array very simple relative to trying to add flash to a legacy architecture,” said James Bagley, senior analystat SSG-NOW. “Overcoming hesitancy of customers regarding pure-flash installations while at the same time understanding enterprises’ capacity-centric requirements with hybrid offerings, places Tegile in an enviable position. No other storage system is so well balanced in leadership data management, performance and economics than Tegile’s.”

Tegile’s latest enterprise arrays are built on the company’s third-generation IntelliFlash technology that provides the performance, capacity and reliability that organizations desire at a relatively low cost. Data reduction technology provides a usable capacity that’s greater than the arrays’ raw capacity. A no-single-point-of-failure architecture, automated snapshot and thin replication features make them more reliable than competitive alternatives.

Like its previous flash-driven storage arrays, T3400 and T3800 feature four eight-core Xeon processors, significant memory, sizable read and write caches using flash, multiple networking interfaces, dual power supplies and hot disk spares to provide high performance at low cost.

The systems’ software simplifies administration and optimizes storage for various applications, including virtualization, file services and databases. All-inclusive pricing for features such as auto-snapshot, auto-replication, near-instant recovery, on or offsite failover, and virtualization management provides simplified software licensing at a fraction of the cost of storage incumbents.

“Tegile’s IntelliFlash architecture effectively harnesses the low latency of our SSDs and the high capacity of our HDDs,” said Ulrich Hansen, VP of product marketing, HGST, Inc. “As a leader in transforming data center storage, we are able to support Tegile with the broadest product portfolio spanning both SSDs and HDDs in this example of a well-executed strategic relationship. With the new T3400 or T3800 systems, Tegile customers will continue to benefit from our high-quality enterprise HDDs and solid state drives to help meet their escalating performance, capacity and reliability requirements.“

“SanDisk has been working diligently with Tegile to drive flash density upwards, while also addressing the durability needs of write-intensive environments, such as those presented by many Tegile customers,” said Steve Fingerhut, VP of enterprise storage solutions, SanDisk Corp. “The density, performance and endurance attributes of SanDisk Enterprise SSDs utilized in Tegile’s all-flash arrays, deliver high-performance, high-reliability storage for the most demanding enterprise data center environments.”

All Tegile products, including the T3400 and T3800, are available through consumption-based leasing, Tegile’s Agility Pricing Program, paying only for the amount of data space utilized – as low as 20.6 cents/GB/month. The program was designed for cost-conscious customers who are interested in leveraging cloud economics but who are unwilling or unable to relinquish control of their data to third-party providers at pricing competitive to Amazon S3.

“We’re excited about the opportunity to provide even more flash options to our customers with the introduction of the T3400 and T3800,” said Rob Commins, VP marketing, Tegile. “Whether it’s a balanced approach of high performance with high capacity of a hybrid array or sustained high performance with low latency of applications best served with flash, we have developed a range of superior product offerings that can satisfy any and all of these requirements without breaking the bank.”

The T3400 and T3800 are available through the company’s reseller partners. All arrays come bundled with IntelliFlash flash optimization software and a data management suite including snapshots, remote replication and VM-aware management tools.