Tegile Systems,
the leading provider of flash-driven storage arrays for databases,
virtualized server and virtual desktop environments, today announced
that
Truck Bodies & Equipment International
(TBEI) Inc., a leading manufacturer of truck equipment and accessories,
has implemented Tegile hybrid arrays to support its critical
operations.
TBEI designs and produces high-quality, precision-engineered equipment under five different brands - Crysteel, Rugby,
DuraClass, J-Craft, and Ox Bodies - sold through more than 1,000
distributors and retailers and used by professionals including the U.S.
military. The company has around 500 employees located in its Lake Crystal, Minnesota headquarters and plants in Alabama, Mississippi, and North Dakota.
Mission-critical applications, including enterprise resource planning
(ERP) software, Microsoft SQL Server databases, Microsoft Exchange and a
manufacturing control program, required a storage solution that could
meet its capacity and performance needs.
Newly hired IT manager Kurt Weinberg
had inherited TBEI's aging Compellent disk storage system, which was
running out of capacity after seven years of service, and he was
interested in moving to flash storage. Reseller partner XIOSS
highly recommended Tegile Intelligent Flash Arrays, and Weinberg was
impressed by the company's editorial reviews, specs he called
"fantastic," and a cost comparable to Compellent's for the high
performance of flash with the economics of disk storage.
"Tegile
delivered on everything that they promised," said Weinberg. "It's been a
really good experience; We have plenty of room to grow into. When I get
my weekly reports, the compression is right as advertised. We have
about 3TB of data native, which Tegile is compressing down to 1TB."
The
migration process smoothed the transition away from disk, toward a
flash-centric infrastructure that accelerates ERP, SQL Server, Exchange,
and other applications and accommodates Weinberg's plans for future
data growth and additional virtualization.
"We
kept our Dell Compellent up for a week after the migration, then shut
it down," said Weinberg. "Now, it's out of the rack and out of the
building - I'm very happy."
Tegile's
portfolio of Intelligent Flash Arrays are designed to accelerate a wide
variety of enterprise applications - from smaller workloads to
mission-critical deployments. They deliver a comprehensive set of data
management capabilities while seamlessly supporting different storage
media (hard disks, dense flash, high-performance flash) under a single
storage operating system. With IntelliFlash, enterprises can deploy
all-flash or a mixture of flash and hard disk in a single storage
system, and can dial up or down the amount of flash storage needed to
meet the specific performance needs of their applications.
Each
array is powered by Tegile's IntelliFlash software architecture, which
seamlessly accommodates different storage media and provides advanced
data management capabilities for data protection, data reduction and
disaster recovery.