Scalability has long been a pain point for CIOs, forcing them to make unnecessarily large investments in data center equipment and software licenses to accommodate their organizations’ growth. Tintri, a Mountain View-based provider of hybrid storage solutions, is addressing this issue with new appliances for virtualized environments.

Geared toward midsize and large enterprises, the Tintri VMstore T600 series includes two systems that offer to simplify deployment while increasing VM density. The T620 can run up to 500 virtual machines and support midsize Microsoft deployments and virtual desktop environments, while the T650 can accommodate as many as 2000 VMs in 4U of space. The latter platform is designed to power tier Tier 1 apps, server consolidation and other enterprise-grade workloads.

The systems are complemented by Tintri Global Center, a new control panel that lets admins manage up to 32 VMstore systems from a single pane of glass.

While virtualization has enhanced automation of servers, legacy storage systems required constant configuring and fine tuning to function properly in virtualized environments. According to Tintri’s VP of marketing, Geoff Stedman, “Tintri has redefined storage around the language of virtualization. We’ve designed storage around the basic constructs of the virtual environment – the virtual machines (VMs). Using a VM-aware storage architecture enables automation when it comes to provisioning storage for virtual environments. As you scale virtualization, it makes sense to have more efficient storage delivery for virtualization and resources are all automatic – with zero configuration or tuning.”

Kieran Harty, the chief executive officer of Tintri, noted that “from day one, our value proposition has been to eliminate those hurdles so that enterprises can scale their virtualization projects quickly and efficiently, just as they have with scaling compute. This approach has fueled our considerable growth in a relatively short time, and we see these new VMstore appliances and the Tintri Global Center platform as a major milestone in bringing our zero management approach to an even broader market of mid-sized and large enterprise users and make global scaling of storage for virtualization a reality.”

Last year, Tintri secured $25 million in funding from New Enterprise Associates, General Partner Pete Sonsini, Menlo Ventures and Lightspeed Partners. The company said at the time that it would use the capital to accelerate its global expansion through investments in R&D and marketing.