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Tintri — A New Approach to Storage for Virtualization
1. VENDOR PROFILE
Tintri — A New Approach to Storage for Virtualization
Gary Chen
IDC OPINION
Virtualization is the new normal in the datacenter, with virtual exceeding physical in
new shipments and in the installed workload base. Virtualization has had a ripple
effect on the datacenter, affecting every subsystem, especially storage. IDC finds:
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Customers want to virtualize a larger and larger percentage of their workloads,
but challenges of scale and performance are obstacles. IDC data has shown that
on the storage side, managing capacity growth and application performance in
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virtual environments are the top issues. Most customers are aware that storage
is usually the most important subsystem that can determine the success or
failure of a virtualization deployment. As most customers have already virtualized
the easy workloads, the remaining workloads are increasingly mission critical and
performance sensitive, demanding a greater level of storage support.
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The nature of how storage is deployed is also changing with the emergence of
converged infrastructure and the role of VM admins, who hold increasingly
greater influence in IT. Support, optimization, and integration with virtualization
are already key for any storage vendor today as virtualization is ubiquitous and
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the storage industry continues to focus on solving the unique storage problems
that virtualization creates.
IN THIS VENDOR PROFILE
This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes Tintri, a company producing a storage appliance
specifically designed for virtual environments, and reviews key success factors:
market potential, technology/solution, and corporate strategy.
SITUATION OVERVIEW
Company Overview
Tintri, based in Mountain View, California, produces a storage appliance that attaches
to and is optimized specifically for virtualized environments. Founded in 2008, Tintri
launched out of stealth mode in March 2011.
Tintri is VC funded, having completed a Series C round, with a total of $35 million
raised to date. The company employs around 55 people, with engineering being the
largest group. It has a small marketing team and is growing the sales team rapidly, as
Filing Information: December 2011, IDC #232129, Volume: 1
Storage Solutions: Storage and Virtualized Environments: Vendor Profile