Taneja Group Field Report on Tintri

Tintri, Inc. announced the findings of a Taneja Group Field Report.

The report, ‘Massively Scalable, Intrinsically Simple: Tintri’s Low TCO for the Virtualised Data Centre,’ is based on interviews with Tintri customers across a range of industries. Customer interviews validate and reinforced findings from Taneja Group’s earlier hands-on lab testing, which showed VMstore systems providing 6x performance, 50-60x reduction in operational expenditure, and reduced TCO than traditional storage solutions. Key drivers were defined as system density in terms of dollars-per-VM, ease of use, predictable performance, and simple scaling.

Key findings from the Taneja Report include:

Performance: Tintri customers saw six times performance than typical mid-range storage systems with flash. Customers reported that VMstore systems met or exceeded the performance of larger all-flash arrays.
Capacity: Customers reported moving from 16U of traditional storage to a 4U system with room to expand on the same system. One company deployed a 6-10TB Oracle database in 3U Tintri VMstore. Another company, a Fortune Global 200 financial services company, achieved $700,000 of CAPEX savings on one project in a 3 year period.
OPEX: Tintri reduced time spent on deployment and provisioning to minutes, compared to weeks for storage made up of traditional arrays. Customer reported up to 52x reduction in time for implementation and ongoing management tasks. Complicated tasks that used to require a storage specialist were accomplished with IT generalists while dramatically reducing the times for deployment. Tintri enabled customers to set up, tear down and build virtualised environments daily for software development use cases. One customer went from juggling workloads around 15 different data stores on traditional storage to just one VMstore with no manual intervention for tuning and rebalancing as the environment grew.
Troubleshooting: While troubleshooting a virtualised environment can encompass many departments and processes, Tintri reduced the effort from days to minutes with the built-in end-to-end performance visualisation tools on VMstore. In larger environments with multiple VMstore systems, a quick check of the Tintri Global Centre interface highlighted root causes across the entire stack.

“The key takeaway from this TCO study is that the Tintri VMstore is near zero management storage. We have never seen such deep integration with virtualised infrastructure,” said Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst, Taneja Group, “This results in distinct advantages in both storage capabilities and on-going management. The combined CAPEX and OPEX savings experienced by Tintri customers are significant that we think every business looking to upgrade or improve their storage strategy should be considering what Tintri and virtualisation-specific storage can do for them.“

“The results from Taneja’s previous hands-on lab testing presented a convincing case to go with Tintri for virtualised environments,” said Yael Zheng, CMO, Tintri. “The TCO findings detailed in this report make it a ‘no brainer’. Who wouldn’t like to use one-quarter of the rack space for storage that amplifies virtualisation and reduces management?“

To download full report (registration needed) and executive summary