Tintri Success Story SterKinekor Primedia
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SterKinekor Entertainment is the official distributor of Sony PlayStation hardware and software in South Africa. The company's IT Executive, Andre Potgieter, conducted a proof of concept with Tintri storage that showed immediate benefits over their previous solution. Tintri's all-flash storage supported their entire 6.1TB production system with sub-millisecond performance and consumed only 6.2TB after adding 100 new virtual desktop users, which took just 20 minutes. Tintri also allowed SterKinekor to run mixed workloads on one platform and avoid purchasing separate systems for different workloads as their previous vendor recommended.
Tintri Success Story SterKinekor Primedia
- 1. SterKinekor Entertainment - Primedia Ster-Kinekor Entertainment (¡®SKE¡¯) is the official distributor of Sony PlayStation hardware and Software. Hardware including PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable. As well as Representing Software Publishers: Sony Computer Entertainment, THQ, Bethesda, Capcom, Konami, BlackBean, D3P and Southpeak, across the following platforms PlayStation, Xbox, Wii and PC. Bringing a stream of entertainment to South African consumers. Mr. Andre Potgieter I.T. Executive at SKE embarked on a Tintri POC which from day one reflected immediate benefits. The deployment consisting of two days including data migration had zero impact on his operational environment (no down-time). The entire production system of 6.1 TB¡¯s runs from Tintri¡¯s flash drives and ensures the sub-millisecond performance (the previous storage platform consumed 14 TB¡¯s), after adding 100 fully operational VDi users it consumed a total of 6.2 TB¡¯s and this took all of 20 minutes to deploy. Says Andre Potgieter ¡°We have seen Tintri perform at upto 26,000 iOPS from a single host, albeit currently on our 1Gig environment¡± SKE¡¯s previous hardware incumbent vendor recommended a mixed workload platform environment, meaning one platform for Server (VCi), one for Virtual Desktop (VDi) and another for their future planned Bi (Business Intelligence) project ¨C with the Tintri investment SKE will have space and capacity for further virtualisation projects which were previously ¡®put on hold¡¯. Tintri allowed SKE to realise that investing further in existing platform(s) would not make business sense as that legacy architecture was already at 90%. Tintri¡¯s ability to run mixed work-loads on one platform is further endorsed by VMware and this is being taken full advantage of ¨C ¡°this was a silver bullet for us¡± says Andre Potgieter, SKE. Support is offered by the vendors in-country depot (4 hour response on- site break fix) as well as the reseller/ system integrator whom provides skills and Tintri service levels too. The Tintri easy management and ¡®visibility¡¯ was also a compelling factor, the previous storage platform was extremely hands-on and LUN storage management as well as Storage VMotions were resource intensive too, with Tintri this ¡®pain¡¯ has all been eliminated ¨C Andre Potgieter, SKE. For more information on Tintri VMStore please visit www.tintri.com. Tintri and Tintri VMstore are trademarks or registered trademarks of Tintri, Inc. All other trademarks or service marks are the property of their respective holders and are hereby acknowledged. 2011Tintri. All rights reserved. June 2012. Location Johannesburg, South Africa I.T. Environment 200 users with business critical applications for the nationwide distribution of DVD-movies and Gaming-software. Applications using Tintri¡¯s storage include Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft SharePoint to name but some. Tintri Benefits ? Cost ? Performance ? Ease of deployment ? Manageability & Dash- boarding ? Enabler for more virtualisation projects Reference contact Andre Potgieter - IT Executive Ster Kinekor Entertainment. Email AndreP@sterkinekorent.com CASE STUDY ENTERTAINMENT DISTRIBUTION