Tintri by DDN TGC 4.0 Simplified Storage Management

Tintri by DDN announced the availability of Tintri Global Center (TGC) 4.0 release.

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This milestone marks the first major release since DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN) acquired Tintri in September 2018 and represents a step forward towards creating a centrally managed and autonomous storage environment.

The centerpiece of the firm’s management framework, TGC 4.0 enhances VM and VMstore visibility, analytics and diagnostics across a multi-VMstore environment. It delivers further functionality, enabling users to take global actions across a pool of arrays. Improved algorithms deliver even more accurate recommendations for VM placement within an environment.

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Coupled with the company’s Storage vMotion offload capabilities, virtualization administrators can relocate their VMs from one firm’s array to any other company’s array at any time, with near-zero impact on the host, storage or network. Not only are migrations completed with minimal impact to the host, but they are completed by an average of 10x faster than traditional Storage vMotion operations. With this VM migration, storage-level snapshots and policies are migrated and preserved as part of the process, creating a transparent and near-continuous way to optimize VM performance within a pool of the firm’s arrays.

“Tintri by DDN’s TGC 4.0 release is exciting on so many levels.  Not only is this the first major release since DDN acquired Tintri this summer, but it also represents a breakthrough in helping VM storage administrators instrument and automate their environments,” said Tomer Hagay, senior director, product management, Tintri by DDN. “Tintri is back, and this is just a first step in an exciting set of releases we have coming up.“

The key behind TGC capabilities is the integration between the company and the hypervisor. By being able to track granular metrics, Tintri can manage performance and optimize VM placement based on deep analysis of VM activity. By combining better visibility with transparent operations, administrators can eliminate manual operations frequently associated with VM management.

Customers desire an architecture that allows them to leverage existing data to generate insights into how to optimize the current environment and to predict future needs. Currently, customers are often limited by their current infrastructure and forced to make trade-offs between optimizing application performance and ongoing system operations. The company eliminates that barrier and unlocks automated, impact-free optimization.

Tintri TGC 4.0 is available to the firm’s customers.