Tintri

Tintrí, Inc.
Private
Industry Data storage devices
Information Technology
Virtualization
Founded 2008
Headquarters 303 Ravendale Drive
Mountain View, California, United States
Key people
 Ken Klein (President and CEO)
Kieran Harty (CTO & Co-Founder)
Ian Halifax (CFO)
Mark Gritter (Architect & Co-Founder)
Products application-aware storage
Website www.Tintri.com

Tintri, Inc. is an American information technology company based in Mountain View, California. Tintri provides flash-based storage products specifically designed for virtualized and cloud environments. The company’s core product is Tintri VMstore with virtual machine level data management and protection capabilities.[1] The system automatically aligns the storage infrastructure to match the application demands of the virtual infrastructure.[2][3]

History

Tintri was founded by Kieran Harty, who formerly led development at VMware as their executive vice president of engineering. Many of Tintri's executives and senior technical people came from Brocade, EMC, Data Domain, Google, NetApp, and VMware.

Harty’s initial objective for Tintri was solving the problem of the mismatch between conventional storage and the demands of applications in virtualized environments, which causes complex configuration and management as well as over-provisioning.[4]

In October 2013, Tintri announced Ken Klein, a Tintri board member and former President of Wind River Systems, joined the company as chairman and CEO.[5]

Tintri has received more than $135 million in venture funding.[6] The Series D round in July 2012 of $25 million was led by Menlo Ventures joined by existing investors New Enterprise Associates and Lightspeed Venture Partners.In February 2014, Tintri announced it raised $75 million. The funding round was led by Insight Venture Partners joined by existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures and New Enterprise Associates.

Technology

Tintri VMstore uses VMs and virtual disks — in place of conventional storage abstractions such as LUNs and volumes — as core system management constructs. Its FlashFirst design deduplicates and compresses data in flash, eliminating the need to configure storage including RAID levels and tiering. VM-level QoS and performance allocation automatically monitors and controls IO to vdisks and VMs. Tintri also provides a global view of all the VMs stored on the VMstore and real-time view of latency from guest VMs, vSphere hosts, the network and storage.[7]

Tintri VMstores are accessed by clients over standard TCP/IP file service protocols (NFS and SMB). VMstore systems are customized dual-controller x86 servers containing a mix of flash (SSD) and traditional mechanical hard disk drives. Incoming writes and other filesystem updates are logged to non-volatile memory to reduce latency. The platform runs on a customized Linux operating system. The majority of the company's intellectual property is implemented in a custom user-level filesystem process, ironically named realstore.

Tintri VMstore T880

Products

Tintri shipped its first-generation products in April 2011.[8][9]

Tintri released version Tintri OS 2.0 in April 2013. This release added VM-granular replication (known as ReplicateVM) in addition to CloneVM and SnapVM. It replicates individual VMs between VMstore systems with customizable protection schedules and creates VM clones on remote VMstore systems.[10][11][12]

At VMworld SF 2013, Tintri demonstrated support for VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOLs) at the event.[13]

Tintri announced Tintri OS 3.0, Tintri Global Center 1.1, and Tintri Automation Center based on PowerShell in August, 2014.[14] The new products deliver VM-level operation for data management with multi-hypervisor support and end-to-end automation for virtualization and private cloud deployments.

On November 6, 2014, Tintri announced the Tintri VMstore™ T800 series and Tintri OS 3.1. The series includes three models - T820, T850 and T880. The T880 is capable of supporting up to 3500 VMs, 100TB of effective capacity and up to 140,000 IOPS in a single 4U system. Other new capabilities of the Tintri OS include integration with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for automated disaster recovery, SecureVM for data at rest encryption and REST API SDK for workflow automation and ecosystem integration.[15]

On April 9, 2015, Tintri announced Tintri OS 3.2 with VM-level QoS and SyncVM, and Tintri Global Center (TGC) 2.0. VM-level QoS enables administrators to set maximum and minimum IOPS values to each individual VM, with visual guidance on the QoS values to specify. Administrators can see the immediate impact of throttle changes on VM-level latency instead of waiting for end user feedback. SyncVM allows users to move back and forth between snapshots of an individual VM without losing other snapshots or performance history.It also updates hundreds of “child” VMs from a refreshed “master” VM without physically moving data or reconfiguring the VM and/or storage. With TGC 2.0, users can monitor and manage more than 100,000 VMs from a single pane of glass, and manage dynamic collections of VMs based on group definitions and policies. [16]

Certification

Awards and Recognition


See also

References

  1. ↑ Cohan, Peter (31 July 2013). "Tintri’s 110% growth grabs share from NetApp, EMC in $10 billion market". Forbes. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  2. ↑ Schauland, Derek (28 August 2013). "Review: Tintri datastore in a box". TechRepublic. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  3. ↑ Mellor, Chris (17 May 2012). "You can feed 800 VMs off 1 of our boxes". The Register. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  4. ↑ Pender, Lee (14 August 2013). "Storage for the modern data center". Virtualization Review. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  5. ↑ "Tintri names Ken Klein as Chairman and Chief Executive Office to accelerate company’s growth". Tintri Press Release. 15 October 2013. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  6. ↑ Mellor, Chris (25 July 2012). "Tintri trousers $25m to crank out flash storage grease". The Register. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
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  8. ↑ Vance, Ashlee (24 March 2011). "Taking the pain out of virtual computing". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  9. ↑ "Former VMware R&D chief launches Tintri with $17M funding". San Jose Business Journal. 26 March 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  10. ↑ "Leading provider of VM-aware storage systems enables worldwide agility for virtual machines, simplifies management and resource planning process for distributed datacenters". Tintri Press Release. 8 April 2013. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  11. ↑ Epping, Duncan (8 April 2013). "Tintri releases version 2.0". YellowBricks.com. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  12. ↑ van Zanten, Gabrie (2 July 2013). "The new Tintri VMstore". Gabe’s Virtual World. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  13. ↑ "Tintri to demonstrate VMware virtual volumes support at VMworld 2013". Tintri Press Release. 26 August 2013. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  14. ↑ "Tintri Introduces New Generation of Smart Storage with Multi-hypervisor Support and Industry's First VM-Level Automation Capabilities". Tintri Press Releases. 14 August 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  15. ↑ "Tintri launches VMstore T800 series to disrupt storage quo with best-in-class density in one-fourth the rack space". Tintri Press Releases/accessdate=6 November 2014. 6 November 2014.
  16. ↑ Mellor, Chris (13 April 2015). "Tintri gets all touchy-feely with latest OS update". The Register. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  17. ↑ "View Composer API for Array Integration (VCAI) support in VMware Horizon View (2061611)". Retrieved 20 August 2014.
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  19. ↑ "VMware Horizon View with Tintri lab validate report". Enterprise Strategy Group. February 2013. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
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  22. ↑ "InfoWorld's 2015 Technology of the Year Award". 26 January 2015. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
  23. ↑ "Tintri Named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays". Tintri Press Releases. 24 November 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  24. ↑ "The 11 Hottest Pre-IPO Enterprise Startups". 11 March 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
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  26. ↑ "Gold Award in Hardware for Virtualization Category". Best of VMworld 2012. 31 August 2012.

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