Tintri’s latest case study discusses the Norwegian School of Economics’ (NHH) implementation of its VMstore array to power 120 VMs. The infrastructure services about 3,700 students and faculty worldwide, and will also be used as the backbone of a future VDI initiative current in the works according to the company.

The case study itself encompasses all the usual things, such as background wrapped up with the not-unexpected promotional approach. NHH started to virtualize its apps – SharePoint and others – back in 2005, when it still used disk-based storage. The IT department decided against going with an upgrade to flash as cache due to “both cost and complexity,” but managed to achieve results it found more appropriate with Tintri’s solution, which is also based on flash.

“Tintri takes an innovative approach to storage for virtual environments and offers performance that was unmatched by any othersolution we evaluated,” said Thor-Inge Naesset, Director of Information Technology Services for the Norwegian School of Economics. “Their efficient use of deduplication allows us to run everything in flash, with plenty of room to spare. Storage used to be a real headache for us. With Tintri, we just don’t think about storage anymore – it’s not a problem.”

Tintri has been expanding in the European market recently. The company attended the last VMware Europe in Denmark where it introduced the newest addition to its storage portfolio – the VMstore T540 appliance. In addition to the regular VM-aware gimmick the product also includes more automation and more virtualization.

The main issue Tintri aims to solve with its products is storage bottlenecks in VMs, one of the most common issues, according to data pulled by the company. It’s all laid out in this little infographic, along with other contextual tidbits demonstrating corporate IT trends.