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WHIPTAIL Solves Data I/O Bottlenecks for University Of Portland VDI Applications

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June 18, 2012

WHIPTAIL Solves Data I/O Bottlenecks for University Of Portland VDI Applications

By Madhubanti Rudra, TMCnet Contributor


WHIPTAIL, the pioneer of NAND Flash Silicon Storage Array (SSA), which dramatically improves application performance while consuming less energy than legacy storage arrays, recently announced that University of Portland has selected its 100 percent silicon storage arrays to manage workloads for virtual desktop deployment.


The solution, according to a press release, naturally fit into the institution’s Cisco (News - Alert) UCS environment and perfectly supports its existing virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) framework.

In order to be successful, virtualized environments demand a substantial amount of data to move quickly. For its large user-community that needed immediate access to the same networks and resources, the Portland University was on the lookout for a solution that would help improve the campus-wide performance of PC kiosk and computer labs that are run on a VMware View environment utilizing a Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) architecture. The university typically needed a solution that enabled 250 simultaneous users but could scale to thousands of simultaneous users.

WHIPTAIL delivers flash storage array as the hub for their existing VDI workload. The solution was seamlessly integrated into the university's existing VDI environment and started delivering improved data velocity, efficiency and convenience.

Its silicon storage array runs on less than 200 watts and supports up to 12 TB of MLC flash with 250,000 IOs in a small 2U array, fully populated by cost-effective MLC flash drives. The WHIPTAIL array is tuned to reduce latency in high I/O environments and possesses a proprietary operating system designed to overcome the write performance and longevity challenges typically associated with MLC flash.

With WHIPTAIL storage array in place, data flows seamlessly with immediate response times and the environment is easily scalable to more than 1,000 simultaneous users, the company claimed in a press release. The issues relating to data bottlenecks and access delays are the things of past and user satisfaction is in its all time high.

“One of the biggest challenges we faced was disk performance issues commonly associated with larger VDI environments. Due to the way in which we are leveraging VDI and application virtualization, it was critical we had the necessary disk subsystem to provide the optimal experience. We selected the WHIPTAIL array because it was a solution that naturally fit into our Cisco UCS environment, and it delivered on the WRITE speed, protocol support, energy savings and ease of integration necessary to support our existing VDI framework. With the integration of WHIPTAIL, students and professors will be able to access desktops and applications without interruption,” Chief Information Officer at the University of Portland Paul Disbury, noted in a statement.

Few months back, WHIPTAIL publicly launched INVICTA, the world's first scale-out, modular, enterprise class solid state storage platform, as well as ACCELA, the next generation of the world's most widely deployed all flash storage array. 




Edited by Amanda Ciccatelli







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