Aer Lingus has deployed hybrid flash storage arrays from start-up Tegile Systems to support the increasing storage demands of SQL database, virtual desktop infrastructure and ever increasing data storage capacity needs.
Moving on from EMC storage infrastructure, Apache and HP solutions were also evaluated in a process that saw Tegile’s Zebi HA2800 arrays win out.
“With the legacy EMC storage, as soon as we reached our storage limit, we had to go back to the vendor to buy additional storage space,” said Brian Price, IT architect, Aer Lingus. “This was both costly and an inefficient use of our IT team’s time. With the implementation of Tegile arrays, storage is no longer an issue at Aer Lingus. The deployment has given us more bang for our buck and allowed a lot more breathing space for our IT team. Tegile arrays offer storage that is rich with features to enhance data management.”
Aer Lingus has moved critical data, including its corporate file share, to the Zebi arrays, leveraging Tegile’s de-duplication and compression capabilities, allowing it to update files in real time between each of its two data centres, ensuring business continuity.
“For companies that need to expand their existing capacity or improve their performance, being locked into legacy hardware can be an expensive and overwhelming proposition,” said Rob Commins, vice president of marketing, Tegile Systems. “Aer Lingus found that they could supplement their existing EMC solution to gain the performance and scalability that they needed while staying within their cost constraints by leveraging our ‘hybrid solution with a twist,’ allowing them to take advantage of both the future of flash and the capacity of disk. Rather than continually investing in expensive, additional storage space from EMC to cope with the increasing amount of data, Aer Lingus is able to expand its storage capacity more quickly and at a lower price.”
According to Tegile, Zebi HA2800 storage arrays leverage the performance of SSD and low cost-per-TB of high capacity disk drives to deliver five times the performance and up to 75% less capacity required than legacy arrays. Tegile said that it has designed the performance benefits of SSDs throughout the data path, giving every application a performance boost.
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