Green Cloud Technologies,
an employee-owned cloud solutions provider (CSP), has quadrupled its
storage footprint without adding new storage personnel due to Tintri's VM-aware storage (VAS) solutions for virtualization and cloud environments.
With
a three-year growth rate of more than 4,000 percent, Green Cloud
previously needed two dedicated storage experts working full time to
manage its storage footprint. Following the introduction of Tintri
VM-aware storage, the CSP's IT team can now focus on service delivery,
supporting numerous resellers with hundreds of customers who run
unpredictable workloads with varying performance demands.
Keith
Coker, Green Cloud's Co-Founder and CTO, notes the significant
difference in organization dynamics. "As a cloud service provider, we
don't know what virtualized workloads end customers will be adding or
modifying next, so we need storage that is both extremely flexible and
easy to manage. After much investigation and testing, it was very clear
to us that only Tintri solves the fundamental challenges of operating a
highly virtualized environment. As a result, storage isn't a focus any
longer-we spend our time on strategic projects and better serving our
customers."
Prior to Tintri, Green Cloud was dependent on legacy
SAN storage, which made it difficult to manage applications with various
performance requirements. Green Cloud selected Tintri because it
allowed them to guarantee the performance of end customer applications,
and even support different service tiers on a single VMstore. Tintri's
per-VM QoS assigns each virtual machine its own performance lane,
allowing Green Cloud to handle any virtual server, database and desktop
workload while eliminating the need for dedicated storage experts.
Green
Cloud Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering Eric Hester, adds,
"We're always suspicious of new technologies-it's our job to try and
break them. From day one, Tintri VM-aware storage has simply worked. It
doesn't paper over performance issues like other all-flash storage. And
so it has proven remarkably easy to scale as our business has grown."
Tintri
CTO and Co-Founder Kieran Harty said, "Virtualization is the backbone
of any cloud environment, and Tintri is specifically built for
virtualized workloads. That's why cloud service providers that trust
Tintri are able to guarantee performance to their partners, and
ultimately to end customers. That's a competitive advantage for our
customers and a prerequisite to scale. And that's why we enjoy such
close collaboration with leaders like Green Cloud."
You can read the complete Green Cloud Case Study, and for a more in depth look view a video about how Green Cloud has grown its business with Tintri.