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Connectria Turns to Tegile Systems Storage Arrays to Optimize Virtual Storage
April 03, 2013
By Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor
Connectria (News - Alert), a provider of data center and hosting solutions, has just formed partnership with Tegile Systems, a provider of storage arrays for virtualization, file services and database applications, to address the storage needs of its data centers. The data center provider turned to Connectria to complement its existing network architecture and address the capacity and performance requirements of its customers in virtualization and cloud computing segments.
Tegile Systems delivers Tegile Zebi arrays which are powered by the company’s patent-pending MASS technology with high performance DRAM, solid state flash, Intel (News 
- Alert) Xeon processors and high speed Ethernet or Fibre Channel, yielding higher capacity and significantly higher performance.
Tegile Zebi arrays leverage the performance of SSD and the low cost per TB of high capacity disk drives to deliver up to seven times the performance and up to 75 percent less capacity required than legacy arrays, the company claims.
According to Rob Commins, vice president of marketing, Tegile Systems, Tegile Zebi Storage Arrays provide flash-grade performance without the cost of all flash arrays or legacy arrays.
Connectria owns four data centers throughout the U.S. and serves more than 1,000 clients worldwide. The company hosts a wide range of cloud technologies for a variety of industries. As the capacity needs increased, Connectria needed a storage solution that could complement the existing network architecture while addressing the long-term capacity, performance and scalability requirements demanded of its virtualization and cloud computing customers.
Rusty Putzler, vice president of Engineering at Connectria, says, “When we realized that we needed a different class of storage to satisfy the higher capacity and higher growth requirements of a VDI infrastructure at one of our healthcare customers, we turned to Tegile’s Zebi arrays to fulfill that tactical need.”
“With inline deduplication of 87 percent and 33 percent compression ratios, Tegile has provided us with outstanding performance at a cost per terabyte that is perfectly geared towards virtualized environments,” Putzler added.
Connectria swapped the existing storage for new-generation Tegile Zebi hybrid storage arrays. As a result Connectria was able to manage the fluid requirements of the healthcare provider’s VDI environment easier, faster and more reliably at a vastly reduced cost compared to other arrays.
Edited by Amanda Ciccatelli
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