Tintri

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Tintri Inc.
legal form Partnership
founding 2008
Seat 303 Ravendale Drive
Mountain View, California
United States of America
management Ken Klein (President and CEO )
Kieran Harty (CTO & Co-Founder)
Ian Halifax (CFO)
Mark Gritter (Architect & Co-Founder)
Branch Data storage
information
technology virtualization
Website www.tintri.com

Tintri, Inc . is an American IT company based in Mountain View , California . Tintri offers flash memory based storage products specifically designed for virtualization and cloud environments. The company's main product is Tintri VMstore, which enables data management and security at the VM level. The system automatically adjusts the storage infrastructure to the needs of the applications in the virtual infrastructure.

history

Tintri was founded by Kieran Harty, who previously led product development at VMware as its executive vice president of engineering. Many of Tintris' managers and senior technical staff are from Brocade, EMC , Data Domain, Google , NetApp, and VMware. Kieran Harty's initial objective for Tintri was to address the problem of the discrepancy between conventional storage and the requirements of applications in virtualized environments. This discrepancy requires not only over-provisioning but also complex configuration and management.

Ken Klein, a member of the board of directors at Tintri and former chairman of the board of directors of Wind River Systems , became tintri's chairman and general manager in October 2013.

Tintri has mainly Received $ 260 million in venture capital. In August 2015, Tintri announced a $ 125 million financing round. The round was led by Silver Lake Kraftwerk, accompanied by existing investors Insight Venture Partners , Lightspeed Venture Partners , Menlo Ventures and New Enterprise Associates .

In June 2017 the company went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange. A few months later, however, a buyer was sought due to ongoing financial difficulties. After negotiations with potential investors failed, the company had to apply for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on July 10, 2018 . Most of the approximately 200 employees were laid off. Shortly after the bankruptcy, the bankruptcy estate was taken over by the privately owned company DataDirect Networks for an undisclosed purchase price. Since then, the business has been continued by a rump team.

technology

Tintri VMstore uses VMs and virtual disks instead of conventional storage abstractions such as LUNs and volumes as the core structure of the system administration. Tintris FlashFirst design deduplicates and compresses data in flash, eliminating the need to configure storage, including RAID levels and tiering. QoS at VM level and performance allocation monitor and control IO, Vdisks and VMs. Tintri also provides a global view of all VMs in a VMstore storage and a real-time view of the latency of hosted VMs, vSphere hosts, the network and storage.

Clients can access Tintri VMstore appliances using standard TCP / IP file service protocols (NFS and SMB). VMstore systems are adapted x86 servers with dual controllers, equipped with a mixture of flash (SSD) and traditional mechanical hard drives. Writes and other updates to the file system are stored on non-volatile RAM to reduce latency. The platform runs on an adapted Linux operating system. The majority of the company's intellectual property is in an adapted user-level filesystem process, ironically called a 'real store'.

Products

Tintri VMstore T800

Tintri delivered the first generation of its products in April 2011. Tintri released Tintri OS 2.0 in April 2013. This version of the operating system added VM-granular replication (known as ReplicateVM) and CloneVM and SnapVM. It replicates individual VMs between VMstore systems with a customizable schedule for data security and creates VM clones on remote VMstore systems.

At VMworld 2013 in San Francisco, Tintri showed support for VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOLs).

Tintri announced in August 2014 Tintri OS 3.0, Tintri Global Center 1.1 and Tintri Automation Center, based on PowerShell. The new products provide VM-level data management operations with support for multiple hypervisors and end-to-end automation for virtualization and private cloud environments.

In November 2014, Tintri announced the VMstore ™ T800 series and Tintri OS 3.1. The new product line includes three models: T820, T850 and T880. The T880 can support up to 3500 VMs, 100TB of usable capacity and up to 140,000 IOPS in a single 4U high system. Other new features of Tintri OS include integration with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for automated disaster recovery, SecureVM for encryption of data at rest, and REST API SDK for workflow automation and integration into the ecosystem.

In April 2015, Tintri announced OS 3.2, with QoS at the VM level and SyncVM, and Tintri Global Center 2.0. With QoS at the VM level, administrators can set maximum and minimum IOPS values ​​for each individual VM, including visual aid to precisely determine the QoS values. Administrators can see the impact of the changes on latency immediately instead of waiting for feedback from users. SyncVM allows users to switch back and forth between snapshots of an individual VM without losing other snapshots or the performance history. With Tintri Global Center 2.0, users can monitor and manage more than 100,000 VMs from a single user interface, and dynamically manage groups of VMs based on policies.

In August 2015, Tintri announced the VMstore T5000 All-Flash series, which can manage up to 5000 VMs in a 2U rack unit. The T5000 series can offer up to 100,000 VMs, 1.4 PB of data and four million IOPS in just one rack. Both the T5000 all-flash series and the T800 hybrid flash series are based on the same Tintri OS, with the exact same analyzes at the VM level. The new Tintri Global Center 2.1 can detect 'flash hungry' VMs and help administrators move workloads from a T800 to a T5000 system. TGC 2.1 is not only able to dynamically assign service group policies for data security, but can also transfer them seamlessly when a VM is moved to another VMstore. Tintri also announced the VMstack Converged Infrastructure, which offers a choice of hybrid flash, all flash, multiple hypervisors, servers and networking. Selected Tintri partners can design pre-qualified, integrated solutions for specific use, such as VDI, enterprise applications with high performance requirements and the private cloud.

In February 2016, Tintri introduced a special program for cloud service providers (CSPs) that solves the greatest challenges of CSPs: performance, reliability, costs and the generation of additional revenue opportunities through SLAs and other services at the VM level . The new CSP program combines Tintri's VM-centric storage solutions with flexible purchase conditions and thus offers CSPs the ideal platform to guarantee high performance, reduce costs per VM and offer their customers additional services.

Certifications

  • Tintri is certified for the View Composer API for Array Integration (VCAI).
  • Tintri systems and the Tintri VAAI plug-in are VMware Ready certified.
  • Tintri and the VMware VDI reference architecture for VMware Horizon View 5.2 has been tested by VMware and ESG.
  • Tintri is listed on Cisco HCL Version 2.1.2 (page 50).
  • Tintri systems are certified to be Citrix Ready for XenDesktop VDI environments.
  • Tintri systems are also certified Citrix Ready for XenDesktop VDI deployments.

Prizes and awards

  • InfoWorld awarded “2015 Technology of the Year”.
  • Tintri was listed as a Visionary in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays.
  • Inc "The 11 Hottest Pre-IPO Enterprise Startups"
  • CRN Emerging Vendors 2014
  • Virtualization Review Editor's Choice Award, 2013

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Derek Schauland: Review: Tintri datastore in a box . In: TechRepublic . August 28, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  3. ↑ Chris Mellor: You can feed 800 VMs off 1 of our boxes . In: The Register . May 17, 2012. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  4. ↑ Lee Pender: Storage for the modern data center . In: Virtualization Review . August 14, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  5. ↑ Tintri names Ken Klein as Chairman and Chief Executive Office to accelerate company's growth . In: Tintri Press Release . October 15, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  6. ↑ Bob Darrow: Tintri snags $ 125 million to market its new-look storage appliance . In: Fortune . August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  7. ↑ https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/10/tintri-goes-from-ipo-to-bankruptcy-in-one-year.html
  8. ↑ https://www.speicherguide.de/news/tintri-findet-mit-ddn-doch-noch-einen-interessenten-23911.aspx
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  10. ^ Ashlee Vance: Taking the pain out of virtual computing . In: Bloomberg Businessweek . March 24, 2011. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  11. ^ Former VMware R&D chief launches Tintri with $ 17M funding . In: San Jose Business Journal . March 26, 2011. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  12. ↑ Leading provider of VM-aware storage systems enables worldwide agility for virtual machines, simplifies management and resource planning process for distributed datacenters . In: Tintri Press Release . April 8, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  13. ^ Duncan Epping: Tintri releases version 2.0 . In: YellowBricks.com . April 8, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  14. ↑ Gabrie van Zanten: The new Tintri VMstore . In: Gabe's Virtual World . July 2, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  15. ↑ Tintri to demonstrate VMware virtual volumes support at VMworld 2013 . In: Tintri Press Release . August 26, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  16. ↑ Tintri to demonstrate VMware virtual volumes support at VMworld 2013 . In: Tintri Press Release . August 26, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  17. ↑ Tintri launches VMstore T800 series to disrupt storage quo with best-in-class density in one-fourth the rack space . In: Tintri Press Releases / accessdate = 2014-11-06 . November 6, 2014.
  18. ↑ Chris Mellor: Tintri gets all touchy-feely with the latest OS update . In: The Register . April 13, 2015. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  19. ↑ Tintri Announces New VM-Aware All-Flash Storage Platform — Providing Customers the Choice of All-Flash and Hybrid-Flash, with Common OS, Real-Time Analytics and the Ability to Optimize Workloads Across Storage Platforms . In: Tintri Press Releases / accessdate = 2015-08-20 . 20th August 2015.
  20. ^ Duncan Epping: Tintri announces all-flash storage device and Tintri OS 4.0 . In: Yellor Bricks . August 20, 2015. Retrieved August 20, 2015.
  21. ↑ View Composer API for Array Integration (VCAI) support in VMware Horizon View (2061611) . Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  22. ↑ VMware Compatibility Guide . Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  23. ↑ VMware Horizon View with Tintri lab validate report . In: Enterprise Strategy Group . February 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  24. ↑ Cisco hardware and software interoperability for UCSM Managed Servers in Release 2.1 . In: Cisco, Inc. . Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  25. ↑ Citrix Ready Xchange Marketplace . In: Citrix, Inc. . Archived from the original on October 17, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 16, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.citrix.com
  26. ↑ InfoWorld's 2015 Technology of the Year Award . January 26, 2015. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
  27. ^ Tintri Named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays . In: Tintri Press Releases . November 24, 2014. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
  28. ↑ The 11 Hottest Pre-IPO Enterprise Startups . March 11, 2014. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
  29. ↑ Emerging vendors in 2014 . July 21, 2014. Retrieved July 21, 2014.
  30. ↑ Gold Award in Hardware for Virtualization Category . In: Best of VMworld 2012 . August 31, 2012.