We normally think of storage these days as either NAS or SAN and expect 1 to 3 days to put it together and configure it, with RAID sets to build and planning on which disks will be used for what, we then need to organise the storage into pools or LUNs etc.

But what if the longest time spent was tightening the captive screws to hold it into the rack and we could be loading virtual machines onto 8.5TB of usable storage space? Space that has SSDs to improve performance to achieve 50,000 IOPS? And is less than £50k to buy?

This is the new kid on the VMware block Tintri with their initial storage appliance released in April and their second due next month adding dual controllers and replication.

They have some excellent case studies including Tibco and their Oracle Financials application running a dream on VMware and Tintri.

Do you want to get your hands on one? Let us know and we can make it so!