Expensive and complex, data storage can be a nightmare. These days, Tintri is one of the many companies trying to change that. In an interview with Dave Vellante, Co-Founder of Wikibon, at VMworld 2011, Kieran Harty, CEO of Tintri, explained the solution his company offers: "We built a special appliance which is exclusively for virtualized environments. It does not look like a conventional SAN or NAS device. It instead presents only virtual machines and virtual disks to the user." This appliance is a mixture of flash and SATA drives that presents about a terabyte of flash, but looks logically like 8.5 TB of flash because of how efficiently it's used. Harty listed flash memory, 10 GB Ethernet, and powerful multi-core processors as recent technology changes that they were able to take advantage of, thus enabling them in creating their product. Another aspect of Tintri is that it is VMware. Everything is presented as virtual machines and virtual disks. It snapshots on virtual machine level and will support replication at virtual machine level as well, distinguishing it from conventional storage. The value is that it's fast, simple and familiar to a VM administrator. Harty identified one of the main issues they've had to deal with was that "We were constrained by not being able to have control of the SAN and so we had to work at VMware with existing SANs. So essentially what we've done is we've made the network device friendly to the virtualization." Harty also noted they ...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Kieran Harty at VMworld 2011
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Expensive and complex, data storage can be a nightmare. These days, Tintri is one of the many companies trying to change that. In an interview with Dave Vellante, Co-Founder of Wikibon, at VMworld 2011, Kieran Harty, CEO of Tintri, explained the solution his company offers: "We built a special appliance which is exclusively for virtualized environments. It does not look like a conventional SAN or NAS device. It instead presents only virtual machines and virtual disks to the user." This appliance is a mixture of flash and SATA drives that presents about a terabyte of flash, but looks logically like 8.5 TB of flash because of how efficiently it's used. Harty listed flash memory, 10 GB Ethernet, and powerful multi-core processors as recent technology changes that they were able to take advantage of, thus enabling them in creating their product. Another aspect of Tintri is that it is VMware. Everything is presented as virtual machines and virtual disks. It snapshots on virtual machine level and will support replication at virtual machine level as well, distinguishing it from conventional storage. The value is that it's fast, simple and familiar to a VM administrator. Harty identified one of the main issues they've had to deal with was that "We were constrained by not being able to have control of the SAN and so we had to work at VMware with existing SANs. So essentially what we've done is we've made the network device friendly to the virtualization." Harty also noted they ...
Expensive and complex, data storage can be a nightmare. These days, Tintri is one of the many companies trying to change that. In an interview with Dave Vellante, Co-Founder of Wikibon, at VMworld 2011, Kieran Harty, CEO of Tintri, explained the solution his company offers: "We built a special appliance which is exclusively for virtualized environments. It does not look like a conventional SAN or NAS device. It instead presents only virtual machines and virtual disks to the user." This appliance is a mixture of flash and SATA drives that presents about a terabyte of flash, but looks logically like 8.5 TB of flash because of how efficiently it's used. Harty listed flash memory, 10 GB Ethernet, and powerful multi-core processors as recent technology changes that they were able to take advantage of, thus enabling them in creating their product. Another aspect of Tintri is that it is VMware. Everything is presented as virtual machines and virtual disks. It snapshots on virtual machine level and will support replication at virtual machine level as well, distinguishing it from conventional storage. The value is that it's fast, simple and familiar to a VM administrator. Harty identified one of the main issues they've had to deal with was that "We were constrained by not being able to have control of the SAN and so we had to work at VMware with existing SANs. So essentially what we've done is we've made the network device friendly to the virtualization." Harty also noted they ...
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