ESG Lab Reports on Tegile Zebi HDD/SSD Arrays

Tegile Systems, Inc., in primary storage de-duplication in virtualised server and desktop environments, announced the release of an Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Lab Validation Report on their Zebi arrays.

The report highlights Zebi’s use of its Meta Data Acceleration (MASS) technology that reduces physical data footprint by up to 75%, while accelerating performance up to 7 times that of traditional storage.
 
The ESG Lab Report found that the solution is simple to configure and provision. It is easy to find relevant information about storage resources using the Zebi Dashboard and Wizard. These capabilities enabled ESG Lab to create and configure a pool, project and LUNs with just a few clicks. Additionally, storage configurations (performance, deduplication and compression) were flexible and settable by project or LUN and the ability to select the number of SSDs assigned to the project ensured that the array would continue to perform optimally as the data set grows.
 
"ESG Lab testing determined that by selecting the appropriate Application Profile, Tegile Zebi arrays optimise the use of SSD and HDD to enhance IO or throughput performance," said Brian Garrett, VP, ESG Lab. "Using the industry standard Iometer workload generator to emulate real-world applications, ESG Lab also validated that the Zebi array was able to provide excellent performance from a very small pool of disks, while in-line deduplication and compression had almost no impact on application performance."
 
"While planning our server virtualisation implementation, it became clear that we should include desktop virtualisation as well," said Ben Croxton, IT director, Global Directories, the parent company of US Yellow Pages. "Storage systems from incumbent vendors didn’t have the performance we’d need over time as we grew. Of the several new hybrid arrays we looked at, Tegile certainly had the most powerful platform, the richest feature set and their entire team has been a pleasure to work with."
 
Additional highlights of the report include:

• An audit of customer results confirmed Tegile’s claim of 75% data reduction for common business applications and services.
• ESG Lab also validated that the Zebi array was able to provide performance from a very small pool of disks while inline deduplication and compression had almost no impact on application performance.
• The Zebi array’s ability to failover and failback transparently between storage controllers was also validated, in addition to the ability to reduce disk rebuild times dramatically using MASS technology.

To download the ESG Lab Report (registration needed)