Storage Systems and Virtualization

"The newest player is Tintri, a 3-year-old Mountain View startup that's starting to talk publicly about its technology. Its founder and chief executive officer is Harty, who left VMware in 2006.

"He and his team have come up with a device the size of a small suitcase that works like a giant USB thumb drive for data centers - it's a fast, relatively cheap way for companies to manage virtual servers. The system combines flash memory, standard hard drives and sophisticated compression technology to perform data triage. The most in-demand information goes on the high-speed flash memory, the rest to slower hard drives. The segregation cuts down on data traffic jams during busy times. All told, a $65,000 Tintri system can do the work of $350,000 worth of standard systems, according to Harty."

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