Tegile Systems, a pioneer in primary storage de-duplication in virtualized
server and desktop environments, today 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 percent, and it is also using the Zebi’s built-in data compression and
de-duplication to reduce storage requirements by 40-45 percent.
“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.”
Tegile’s 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™), which is the only 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 new Zebi as primary storage in
virtualized server, virtualized desktop (VDI), file services and database
environments as well as for replicated storage. Zebi storage arrays are
available from Tegile Systems, with prices starting at $16,000.