I couldn’t help but laugh when I read Kerry Dolan’s post about Tegile’s Zebi Array. She said our system reminded her of the SNL classic “Shimmer Floor Wax” skit. Man, that brings back memories of the good ol’ days of that show. The skit is a parody of the over the top claims many vendors make about the capabilities of their products.
Here is the catch though: ESG Labs evaluated our storage system and compared their findings against our marketing claims. Here is what they found:
“But in Tegile’s case, the all-in-one concept really works. It works for SAN; it works for NAS. To keep capacity to a minimum it has both deduplication and compression, but can also optimize performance for both IOPS and throughput. Efficient? Check. Flexible? Check. Thin provisioning? Snapshots? Replication? Check, check, check.”
Come see for yourself at VMworld 2012 in San Francisco – we are in booth #1923. We will be showing many of the powerful functions of our system. But wait – there’s more! You can try your chances to win a new Tesla Model-S or a Toyota Prius!
JUL
About the Author:
Rob Commins has been instrumental in the success of some of the storage industry’s most interesting companies over the past twenty years. As Vice President of Marketing at Tegile, he leads the company’s marketing strategy, go to market and demand generation activities, as well as competitive analysis. Rob comes to Tegile from HP/3PAR, where he led the product marketing team through several product launches and 3X customer growth over three quarters. Rob also managed much of the functional marketing and operations integration after Hewlett Packard acquired 3PAR. At Pillar Data Systems, he was at the forefront of converged NAS/SAN storage systems and application-aware QoS in mid-range storage. Rob is also a veteran of StorageWay, one of the first storage services providers that launched cloud services. Twitter: @robcommins