Everywhere we look nowadays we see vindication of leading edge storage technologies in all kinds of scenarios.  We are witness to a merging of a number of technologies here with a newly announced alignment between Tegile Systems, a virtual-storage and SSD leader and Connectria, a global managed hosting company with over 1,000 customers.   Tegile makes leading-edge storage arrays, except they have massive performance and scalability that is well-suited for today’s and the future’s datacenter.  The technology is one of the ZFS-based products that has suited other companies well, like Nexenta – and is one of the most transformational shifts in storage the industry has ever seen.  The advantages are great, is creating some incredible use cases, and in its purest essence, is pushing storage into the software-defined datacenter construct of the future.

Connectria boasts some deep roots in the managed hosting business, with a number of notable major enterprise clients.  They have evolved with a number of technologies throughout their run, everything from Citrix, VDI, cloud, and more as part of their extensive experience and offerings.  Lining up with Tegile is in that same vein of technology leap – deduplication, performance, scalability, SSD, cost, and management – these are all among the best benefits of this effort and we can expect to hear more success stories as in the following release:

Newark, Calif. – April 2, 2013 –  Tegile Systems today announced a partnership with Connectria Hosting, a global provider of cloud, managed and custom hosting solutions, to improve the storage capacity, efficiency and performance of its Citrix and VDI offerings.

With four data centers throughout the U.S. and more than 1,000 clients worldwide, Connectria provides hosting solutions that solve the unique business problems of its customers reliably, securely and efficiently. Connectria hosts the widest range of cloud technologies in the industry for customers of all sizes. With the success and growth of its cloud hosting services, Connectria needed a storage solution that could complement its existing network architecture while addressing the long-term capacity,performance and scalability requirements demanded of its virtualization and cloud computing customers.

Connectria turned to Tegile Systems during a proof-of-concept VDI implementation for a large healthcare company when the number of virtual machines introduced began to tax their existing storage infrastructure and needed to be expanded. By swapping out the existing storage for new-generation Tegile Zebi hybrid storage arrays, Connectria was able to manage the fluid requirements of the healthcare provider’s VDI environment easier, faster and more reliably at a vastly reduced cost compared to other arrays.

“We offer a wide range of services to SMBs and Enterprises along with customized HIPAA-compliant solutions to healthcare and dental customers designed to safely and securely store protected information,” said Rusty Putzler, Vice President of Engineering at Connectria. “When we realized that we needed a different class of storage to satisfy the higher capacity and higher growth requirements of a VDI infrastructure at one of our healthcare customers, we turned to Tegile’s Zebi arrays to fulfill that tactical need. With inline deduplication of 87 percent and 33 percent compression ratios, Tegile has provided us with outstanding performance at a cost per terabyte that is perfectly geared towards virtualized environments.”

Tegile Zebi arrays leverage the performance of SSD and the low cost per TB of high capacity disk drives to deliver up to seven times the performance and up to 75 percent less capacity required than legacy arrays. Zebi hybrid arrays combine Tegile’s patent-pending MASS technology with high performance DRAM, solid state flash, Intel Xeon processors and high speed Ethernet or Fibre Channel, resulting in higher capacity and significantly higher performance. Maximizing capacity, on-the-fly de-duplication and data compression enable more hosted virtual desktops for a lower investment in storage and network infrastructure.

“Whether it is cloud storage for SMBs, virtual desktop infrastructures for a particular vertical market like healthcare or business-critical databases in some of the world’s most-demanding environments, Tegile Zebi Storage Arrays are up to the challenge of resolving growth issues and providing flash-grade performance without the cost of all flash arrays or legacy arrays,” said Rob Commins, vice president of marketing, Tegile Systems. “We are pleased to work with Connectria as part of their hosting services to bring their customers the capacity, performance and cost effectiveness they need without the investment and management challenges required from legacy equipment.”