ipHouse Chooses Tegile's Zebi Storage Array

Tegile Systems, a company specializing in storage arrays, announced that its Zebi storage array has been chosen by ipHouse, a service provider in Minneapolis, to transform storage I/O performance and customer satisfaction.

Tegile claims that its Zebi storage array is a new type of storage system that balances the speed of SSD drives with the capacity and cost-effectiveness of hard disk storage. Zebi technology includes the Metadata Accelerated Storage System (MASS), which is a technology that manages the system’s metadata on high speed DRAM and SSDs to accelerate all storage functions, including random and sequential I/O, data de-duplication, compression, snapshots and RAID rebuilds.

“ipHouse joins our rapidly-growing base of customers who want very high storage performance in an affordable package,” Rohit Kshetrapal, president at Tegile Systems, said in a press release.

“We are seeing strong interest in our Zebi system because it delivers the speed of SSD-based arrays with a cost structure closer to that of hard disk-based arrays,” Kshetrapal added.

As indicated, ipHouse will use Zebi’s DRAM and SSD storage tiers to boost IOPS performance by 400 percent, and it is also using the Zebi’s built-in data compression and de-duplication to reduce storage requirements by 40-45 percent.

“With our old system customers were actually dropping transactions because the storage traffic would time out,” Mike Horwath, chief technology officer at ipHouse, said in a statement.

“The Zebi has given us lightning performance and has eliminated customer calls about our legacy storage I/O issues, enabling us to deliver higher-value services for our customers,” Horwath added.

Featuring both NAS and SAN connectivity, Tegile’s Zebi line of hybrid storage arrays are easy-to-use, fully redundant, and highly scalable. Additionally, they come complete with built-in auto-snapshot, auto-replication, near-instant recovery, onsite or offsite failover, and virtualization management features. Zebi storage arrays are available from Tegile Systems for prices starting at $16,000.

In related news, Tegile recently announced that it has been named a Red Herring (News - Alert) Top 100 North America Tech Startup, a prestigious recognition that celebrates the year’s 100 startups for their innovation and technologies across their respective industries.