CASE STUDY
I HAVE MORE THAN 13 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
IN ALL KINDS OF STORAGE ENVIRONMENTS – I
WASN’T REALLY HAPPY WITH ANYTHING BUT
THEN WE MET TINTRI AND I’M VERY HAPPY.
I’M TRYING TO SELL TINTRI TO OTHER PEOPLE
BECAUSE I’M SO HAPPY WITH IT.
IT CHALLENGES
KIREMA Cloud Technology provides
customers with a complete work
environment in the cloud for a fixed amount
per month. It uses the cloud to deliver most
of the elements customers expect from
on-premises infrastructure. In addition to
cloud desktop, services include cloud server
and cloud backup. Based in the Netherlands,
KIREMA’s customers include lawyers,
real estate, construction companies and
contractors. The company has two data
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centres and focuses on businesses with
between 50 and 200 employees.
Speed is of the essence for KIREMA in
providing cloud-based desktops to customers
and the company’s ambition is to deliver
the fastest desktops in the market. The
company relied on a combination of
two technology offerings prior to the
implementation of Tintri’s solution to meet
the storage requirements for its services, but
it was starting to encounter several issues.
Two separate storage solutions required
significant management time. In addition,
while KIREMA was happy with the speed
of one product, it wasn’t happy with the
solution’s overall performance.
KIREMA’s owner Rainier Kwakkenbos began
looking for an alternative. Kwakkenbos
came across Tintri at an exhibition in the
Netherlands. “From the first time I saw
Tintri,” he said, “I was very happy with it.”
In less than two weeks, Tintri was running
a proof of concept (POC) for KIREMA. “The
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