ipHouse Deploys Tegile Zebi Storage Array

Tegile Systems, Inc announced
that ipHouse, a service provider in
Minneapolis, MN, has deployed Tegile’s Zebi storage array to transform storage
I/O performance and customer satisfaction.

ipHouse is taking advantage of the Zebi’s DRAM and SSD storage tiers to boost
IOPS performance by 400%, and it is also using the Zebi’s built-in data
compression and de-duplication to reduce storage requirements by 40-45%.

"With our old system customers
were actually dropping transactions because the storage traffic would time out,"
said Mike Horwath, CTO, ipHouse. "The
Zebi has given us lightning performance and has eliminated customer calls about
our legacy storage I/O issues, enabling us to deliver higher-value services for
our customers."

Zebi storage array is a new
type of storage system that balances the speed of SSD drives with the capacity
and cost-effectiveness of hard disk storage. Zebi technology include the
Metadata Accelerated Storage System (MASS), a technology that
manages the system’s metadata on high speed DRAM and SSDs to accelerate all
storage functions, including random and sequential I/O, data de-duplication,
compression, snapshots and RAID rebuilds.

"ipHouse joins our
rapidly-growing base of customers who want very high storage performance in an
affordable package," said Tegile Systems’ president, Rohit Kshetrapal. "We are seeing strong interest in our Zebi
system because it delivers the speed of SSD-based arrays with a cost structure
closer to that of hard disk-based arrays."

ipHouse is one of over 50 customers from the education, financial services, manufacturing,
government, legal, healthcare, hosting and transportation industry sectors that
have deployed the Zebi as primary storage in virtualized server, VDI, file services and database environments as well as
for replicated storage. Zebi storage arrays are available
with prices starting at $16,000.