Tintri
Inc, a leading provider of enterprise cloud
platforms, today announced that Imperial College Healthcare NHS, has
deployed Tintri as a central piece in its virtualization strategy. Since
deployment, the UK Health Trust has seen notable benefits including
increased storage performance and capacity, as well as a reduction of
downtime and administration.
Imperial College Healthcare NHS is one of the largest NHS trusts in
England. It was formed in 2007 by the merger of Hammersmith Hospitals
NHS Trust and St Mary's NHS Trust with Imperial College London Faculty
of Medicine. It is one of four major trauma centres in London, managing
five hospitals in the capital, employing close to 10,000 people and
treating more than a million patients each year.
Technology plays a key role in assisting the NHS—critical systems used
24/7 must have predictably fast performance. The Imperial College had
begun the process of virtualizing its server infrastructure but its
enterprise SAN storage was not meeting performance and capacity
requirements. IT staff were constantly tuning storage to maintain
performance, drawing them away from higher impact projects. With close
to 1,500 VMs, this represented a significant resource overhead.
After considering a number of alternative resolutions, the IT team at
Imperial College deployed three Tintri systems. Immediately, the time
spent managing storage dropped to near zero. The Tintri systems
supported Imperial College’s workloads across both VMware and Hyper-V,
shrinking their storage footprint. And Tintri’s VM-level quality of
service controls allowed critical VMs to perform flawlessly at all hours
of the day. As a result, Imperial College was able to re-deploy their
SAN storage to focus on physical servers and file servers while Tintri
managed their virtual estate.
Yusuf Mangera, technical architect at Imperial College Healthcare said,
“The results have been remarkable. We haven’t had to look into any
performance related problems at all. Tintri just works to the point
where people have forgotten that the appliances even exist. I would
certainly recommend Tintri to other people.”
“Imperial College Healthcare NHS is dedicated to providing the highest
quality service to its patients—IT infrastructure needs to be an
enabler, not a distraction,” commented Mark Young, VP Systems
Engineering & Field CTO for EMEA at Tintri. “Tintri is designed to
automate processes and streamline performance, ideal for organizations
such as Imperial College that have a virtualization strategy and a need
for IT that simply works.”