Tegile Systems Announces FlashPack at Cisco Live
Bundled solution is the industry's first, only Cisco Reference Architecture for VDI featuring unified storage with in-line deduplication, compression
Newark, Calif. – Tegile Systems today announced that it will be publicly displaying its FlashPack bundle, a reference architecture featuring Cisco UCS, VMware and Zebi storage arrays, for the first time at Cisco Live at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. June 23-27. Tegile is a featured partner of the Cisco Live Unified Data Center – a 16-rack data center simulation showcasing partner solutions in the Data Center zone in the Cisco Campus #758.Â
An ecosystem of industry-leading companies with expertise and experience to help customers architect next-generation data centers, Cisco Unified Data Center simplifies provisioning and management of shared physical and virtual resources, within and across data centers, to accelerate business agility, financial efficiency and IT simplicity. This unified approach with programmable infrastructure helps to reduce ongoing maintenance costs and free up IT resources to support strategic business initiatives, such as cloud computing, consolidation and virtualization, and new applications. The new FlashPack bundle enables customers to deploy a solution today that overcomes challenges within real-life data center environments while serving as an investment for tomorrow.
FlashPack is a server/network/storage package that dramatically lowers capacity and CPU utilization requirements in VDI environments, freeing up more resources to accelerate I/O performance. The combination of Cisco Unified Computing System B200 M3 servers, Cisco Nexus Switching 5000 series platform and VMware View 5.1 featuring VMware vSphere 5 with the Tegile Zebi HA2100 hybrid storage array utilizing in-line deduplication and compression significantly reduces the amount of storage required to host virtual desktops – an 83 percent capacity savings versus other vendors' compression-only solutions.
"After successfully testing our reference architecture to prove its capacity, performance and cost benefits in VDI environments, we are excited to premiere the solution as part of the Unified Data Center at this year's Cisco Live event," said Rob Commins, vice president of marketing, Tegile Systems. "The performance and economic advantages that customers can realize by implementing a VDI solution like FlashPack that incorporates both in-line deduplication and compression as part of its storage component are quite frankly staggering. This is a solution that dovetails nicely with Cisco's concept of the Unified Data Center."
In addition to showcasing FlashPack, Tegile will also be featuring its line of Zebi hybrid storage arrays in Booth #1603 at the event.Â
Tegile Zebi arrays leverage the performance of SSD and 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 patented 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.
Cisco Live is the year's premier educational and training event, attracting more than 17,000 IT, networking and communications professionals. The show features a range of content to help attendees gain the knowledge, skills and expertise on the technologies that drive the ongoing convergence of people, processes, data and things to enrich businesses and lives through greater potential and increased opportunity. Additional information about Cisco Live Orlando is available at ciscolive.com/us/.
About Tegile Systems
Tegile Systems is pioneering a new generation of enterprise storage arrays that balance performance, capacity, features and price for virtualization, file services and database applications. With Tegile's Zebi line of hybrid storage arrays, the company is redefining the traditional approach to storage by providing a family of arrays that is significantly faster than all hard disk-based arrays and significantly less expensive than all solid-state disk-based arrays.
Tegile's patented MASS technology accelerates the Zebi's performance and enables on-the-fly de-duplication and compression of data so each Zebi has a usable capacity far greater than its raw capacity. Tegile's award-winning technology solutions enable customers to better address the requirements of server virtualization, virtual desktop integration and database integration than other offerings. Featuring both NAS and SAN connectivity, Tegile arrays are easy-to-use, fully redundant, and highly scalable. They come complete with built-in auto-snapshot, auto-replication, near-instant recovery, onsite or offsite failover, and virtualization management features. Additional information is available at www.tegile.com. Follow Tegile on Twitter @tegile.
