Tintri announced Gymboree has replaced EMC and NetApp storage solutions with Tintri to reduce operating costs, eliminate over-provisioning and improve performance with a smaller data center footprint.
After implementing Tintri’s all-flash platform, Gymboree reduced its storage management time from hours every week to zero.
San Francisco-based Gymboree operates more than 1,200 retail stores of children’s apparel in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada.
Prior to implementing Tintri’s cloud platform, the company relied on a mix of storage solutions that didn’t perform well with its highly virtualized environment. The company also suffered from bursts of demand for performance from key applications.
“All of our point-of-sale infrastructure, human resources applications and every user interface was utilizing VMware at some level,” said Jessie LaCome, Windows and virtualization IT lead for Gymboree.
Gymboree has about 1,000 end users, and a large number of them were complaining about poor application performance issues. Gymboree also noticed a lot of backup and snapshot problems and huge connectivity issues.
Tintri provided a simple installation process and streamlined management with a single view of all VMs. Tintri reduced the resources needed to manage storage by automating common actions and with proactive support that rapidly solves problems before they impact the organization.
“Our EMC and NetApp systems filled one and a half racks,” LaCome said. “For the same amount of storage capacity, Tintri only fills three rack units. I can fit my entire data center — including all of our Cisco UCS infrastructure and the Tintri device — into a single rack now.”
Tintri has enabled Gymboree to migrate from disparate, physical storage systems to a much more powerful and flexible enterprise cloud platform with room to grow.
“Tintri can provide automations and analytics that span compute, network and storage — reducing operating effort and cost,” said Tintri Chief Marketing Officer, Yael Zheng.
Before installing Tintri, Gymboree storage specialists spent 10 to 12 hours a week managing storage. Now virtualization admins manage storage in a fraction of the time, and Gymboree has a foundation on which to build an enterprise cloud.
Comcast, Chevron, NASA, Toyota, United Healthcare and 20 percent of the Fortune 100, use Tintri with enterprise cloud.
