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Tintri Targets Cloud Service Providers

With VM-aware storage portfolio

Tintri Inc. announced it has set its sights on the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) market with the roll out of its VM-aware storage (VAS) portfolio.

With research showing that the top three storage challenges facing CSPs are performance, reliability and cost, Tintri has made it easier for CSPs to purchase and grow their storage, while offering their customers guaranteed performance, transparent VM-level analytics and differentiated services.

The research State of the Storage for Cloud Service Providers 2016 was conducted in December 2015. It showed that 86% of CSPs cited performance, 69% reliability and 58% cost as the three top challenges they need to overcome when buying storage. This shows that CSPs need reliable and scalable storage to power their cloud infrastructures. They must offer differentiated services to stand out in a competitive marketplace. And they have to acquire the right solutions with flexible terms that allow them to grow at their own pace. Tintri addresses all of these needs.

Tintri allows CSPs to deliver differentiated services such as:

  • Multiple tiers of storage performance on the same array defined by VM-level QoS policies
  • End-to-end infrastructure visibility at the VM level to allow granular charge back for storage resources and actionable troubleshooting capabilities
  • Real-time and predictive analytics for capacity planning and upsell opportunities

Tintri VMstore storage also provides efficiency for cloud storage:

  • The lowest cost per VM, through high VM density with high capacity utilisation, industry operational efficiencies and zero over-provisioning-with no storage PhD required to maintain storage performance
  • The best storage for multi-tenant virtualised environments, including increased margins, low TCO and per-VM isolation to eliminate noisy neighbors
  • Storage that scales with simple and powerful automation for every storage operation and every storage metric to power business growth
  • VMstore storage integrates with multiple concurrent hypervisors, including vSphere, Hyper-V, Xenserver and OpenStack

 CSPs will have access to Tintri’s portfolio of storage systems and software, including:

  • VMstore flash storage systems, including the VMstore T5000 All-Flash series for performance workloads and the VMstore T800 Hybrid-Flash series for higher capacity requirements, powered by the Tintri VM-aware storage file system
  • Global Center, which manages and provides actionable real time VM-level analytics for more than 100,000 VMs across all supported hypervisors. It is capable of not only dynamically assigning service group policies for data protection and QoS but also transferring and retaining the same service group settings when a VM is moved between VMstores

For cloud service providers, storage is a critical component of cloud infrastructure, but one that has not seen the same level of automation and agility as virtualisation and network,” said Ken Klein, CEO and chairman, Tintri. “Every CSP is looking for an edge with customers and competitors, Tintri’s storage solutions can provide it Because of the huge benefits, CSPs are becoming one of Tintri’s fastest growing markets. By targeting this market, CSPs can use Tintri to guarantee predictable high performance to their customers and to create tiers of storage by policy instead of using different storage platforms. Plus, they can identify upsell opportunities and address chargeback with per-VM real-time analytics. Tintri VM-aware storage was designed to provide more storage value for virtualised environments, and cloud is a highly virtualised use case. It’s a perfect fit.

Alex Fossa, CTO and founder, Amatis Networks Ltd commented: “It was refreshing to see a storage vendor focused on reducing latency. Before Tintri, our customer’s applications exhibited an average latency of 25ms, which would spike to 120ms under load. Tintri is delivering sub-microsecond latencies on average. The biggest spikes we are observing only reach 2ms during peak workloads. The 60:1 reduction in latency was quite refreshing.

By including Tintri’s solutions in our data centres, we are able to align resources and performance with the needs of each application,” noted Marco Iannucci, CEO, Clouditalia Communications S.p.A.Our customers are obtaining greater control,  simplicity and scalability offered by our enhanced cloud services.

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