Tintri Achieves Triple Digit Growth

Tintri Inc., a producer of smart storage for virtualisation and cloud environments, announced record results for its fiscal year.

Tintri delivered another year of triple digit sales growth, welcoming hundreds of new enterprise customers, including Accenture, Chevron Corporation, Comcast Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Panasonic Corporation, SK Telecom Co. Ltd. and Toyota Motor Corporation. Tintri counts among its customer base eleven million-dollar accounts and five of the top 15 companies in the Fortune 100.

The company’s continued success was driven by increased adoption of application-aware storage. It grew VMs deployed in production to 300,000, managing close to 30PB of workloads on more than 1500 systems. Gartner positioned Tintri as a visionary in its 2014 Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays. Additionally, it was recognised by InfoWorld as a Technology of the Year award winner.

International Expansion
Tintri started 2014 with a $75 million funding round, which it used to accelerate growth and expand its global footprint. New customers in Australia, China, Japan and Korea boosted 400% sales growth in Asia. In August 2014, it entered into a global OEM and reseller agreement with Fujitsu Ltd, which began with joint go-to-market efforts in Japan.

The company’s expansion was boosted by distribution relationships with solution providers including Arrow Electronics, Inc. in EMEA, Avnet Technology Solutions in Australia and New Zealand, Networld in Japan and CDW LLC in the US. In a Piper Jaffray survey based on feedback from distributors and resellers in North America and Europe, Tintri was shown to exhibit the strongest increase in demand, well ahead of other storage vendors.

Product Innovation and Ecosystem Integration
Standing out from numerous new products Tintri introduced in the past year are VMstore T800 series and OS 3.1, which became available in November 2014. The VMstore models support high VM density. The VMstore T880 is capable of supporting up to 3,500 VMs, 100TB of capacity and up to 140,000 IO/s in 4U system. The T800 series represented three quarters of the total systems sold in Q4.

Tintri deepened its integration with VMware with Tintri Storage Replication Adapter for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, Tintri Management Pack for VMware vRealize Operations and Tintri vSphere Web Client plug-in. Tintri also announced support for vSphere Virtual Volumes (VVOL) and VMware Integrated OpenStack.

The company added support for Microsoft’s Server Message Block (SMB) 3.0 protocol stack and native integration with Hyper-V Manager and System Centre VM Manager (SCVMM). In doing so, Tintri became providesVM-level operations for three major hypervisor environments-vSphere, Hyper-V and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation.

Cloud Momentum
Cloud represents one of the fastest growing use cases for Tintri. Organisations such as F5 Networks, Inc., Panasonic and Department of Defense turned to Tintri to build on-premise private cloud for rapid scaling and automation. Tintri is also deployed by cloud service providers worldwide including Amatis Networks, CT4, Green cloud Technologies, LLC and Rogers Communications, Inc. to deliver IaaS, DaaS and DRaaS, and other hosted private cloud services to enterprises.

“We achieved so many milestones in 2014 and the excitement at Tintri is palpable,” said Ken Klein, chairman and CEO, Tintri. “As changes in the data centre continue, and businesses prioritise applications, they need storage that does the same. The launch of the VMstore T800 series is an example of our commitment to challenging the storage quo. Organisations have been quick to adopt our message and our solutions, growing our business across the globe. We established relationships with strategic partners, including Fujitsu, and set the channel up for success. It was an awesome year, and we’ll be accelerating this momentum in 2015 and beyond.“