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intri, a leading provider of enterprise
cloud platforms, has announced
that XtraDesktop, a Dutch IT service
provider that hosts, deploys and manages
a VMware Horizon Desktop-as-a-Service
(DaaS), has utilised Tintri’s all-flash
storage systems. XtraDesktop has adopted
Tintri to support its DaaS testing and
production workloads, delivering a range of
improvements over a previous Atlantis-based
solution, including better insights, linear
scalability, simplified management and
faster on-boarding for new DaaS partners.
The Tintri systems are already supporting
over 700 VMs, with capacity in place for
several thousand more.
The deployment of Tintri was prompted
by the need to deliver a more powerful
infrastructure solution that would be easier
to scale as demand for its DaaS service
increased. The deployment has enabled
XtraDesktop to reduce problems, from
running multiple workloads on the same
array, while giving the ability to host 2,000
VMs on one Tintri unit. In addition, Tintri
analytics enables them to more accurately
predict capacity requirements and quickly
scale-out to on-board new partners faster.
“I have been following Tintri for several years,
so I already knew that their virtualisation-
aware storage systems would be perfect
for us,” explained Marco Broeken, Chief
Technology Officer at XtraDesktop BV.
“We didn’t bother running a Proof-of-
Concept trial with any other vendor, since
none of the other solutions came close to
the manageability and flexibility of the
Tintri systems. We plan to use Tintri for our
production workloads going forward.”
“XtraDesktop is focused on the needs of their
partners both now and into the future and
understand that the ability to scale must be
accompanied by real insight and analytics,”
explained David Griffiths, VP of EMEA, Tintri.
“They now have a solution which supports
their business objectives while delivering the
performance demanded by DaaS users.”
Intelligent CIO spoke to Marco Broeken,
Chief Technology Officer at XtraDesktop,
about the benefits the XtraDesktop IT
solution brought to the company.
1. What were your reasons for
selecting Tintri as the provider?
XtraDesktop delivers Desktop-as-a-Service
(DaaS) through an exclusive partner network.
We work with the latest technologies to host,
implement and manage IT environments
delivering optimal performance. As
part of this we wanted to enhance our
infrastructure, increase power and deliver a
platform that can scale as demand for our
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services increases. We evaluated the market
but no other vendor came close to Tintri’s
all-flash and software solutions in terms of
manageability and flexibility. It was an easy
choice as Tintri is committed to delivering
application performance and it perfectly
suited our environment delivering the
benefits we need.
We originally deployed our DaaS service
using Atlantis ILIO but we had to provision
other storage appliances every time we
added a new partner or group to the
desktop. Our environment became complex
from a management perspective and Tintri’s
all-flash solution is designed to combat
this challenge. Our company is growing
rapidly and Tintri’s software solutions are
perfectly positioned within the market to
work within challenging environments that
need simplified management, increased
performance and the flexibility to scale.
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