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VM-based storage platform scales out to multiple sites |
October 08, 2013
Enterprises that want their storage organized around virtual machines will get more hardware options and greater scalability later this year from Tintri, a startup that specializes in VM-based storage.On Tuesday, Tintri updated its VMstore line of appliances with two new models and unveiled Tintri Global Center, which lets IT administrators manage multiples of the company's boxes as one system. Both the hardware and software are scheduled to ship by the end of the year.Tintri rejects conventional ways of organizing storage capacity, so instead of arranging volumes and LUNs (logical unit numbers) of data, administrators manage a pool of storage with allocations for each VM. This can be a useful way of administering storage for highly virtualized workloads, Forrester Research analyst Henry Baltazar said. Tintri's arrays aren't suited to general-purpose storage, but as both small and large enterprises virtualize more servers, Tintri is relevant to a growing number of IT shops."Even though it seems like it's a very niche play ... its a niche that's growing really fast," Baltazar said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2053221/vmbased-storage-platform-scales-out-to-multiple-sites.html#tk.rss_all
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