Tegile Systems, the leading provider of persistent-memory storage solutions for databases, virtualised server and virtual desktop environments, today expanded its Lifetime Storage programme to now include the Lifetime Storage Controller Refresh Programme. With this expanded programme, customers can refresh their storage array controllers every three to five years as part of their maintenance contract and without replacing the entire storage array. This is designed to enable organisations to realise the performance benefits of the most advanced array controllers while avoiding incremental capital outlays.
“As a central component of the storage array, controllers are directly associated to the speed and performance of the array within the data centre,” said Rob Commins, VP of Marketing at Tegile. “By ingraining a controller refresh into customers’ maintenance contracts, we’re ensuring they can achieve optimal performance and remain competitive with their infrastructure – while avoiding the capital expenditures or major system upgrades dictated by other vendors in the market.”
The Controller Refresh programme is the newest addition to Tegile’s Lifetime Storage, aimed at enabling organisations of all sizes to benefit from the latest technology on the market. Previously launched options allow for a refresh of the entire storage system, including controllers and media, every three or five years, with a flat maintenance contract. Regardless of the level of technology refresh that customers choose, they will be able to eliminate future capital expenditures by absorbing the cost into operating expenditure budget instead.
All Tegile arrays are built on top of the patented IntelliFlash™ architecture, which future-proofs businesses’ investment by offering faster and more cost-effective media types as they become readily available. Combined with Lifetime Storage, this allows customers to benefit from emerging storage technologies and advancements, including new processing speeds, IO transport technology, and other media enhancements like Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe), which is slated for release later this year.
“As a school district that prides ourselves on providing a top quality service level for our students and faculty, our IT department must stay ahead of the curve when it comes to technological capabilities,” said Steve Ybarra, IT Director at Chandler Unified School District. “Tegile’s Lifetime Storage Controller Refresh Programme has let us take advantage of all the benefits of the most advanced flash storage, and already, we’re looking toward adopting NVMe once it’s ready.”
Lifetime Storage is well aligned with Tegile IntelliCare, a comprehensive customer care program that creates a fundamentally more simple and affordable approach to storage array ownership. Driven by cloud-based analytics and backed by a team of storage experts, IntelliCare enables storage administrators to quickly and easily monitor the health, performance and usage of their Tegile storage arrays, predict future requirements, and detect problems before they develop into component and system failures.
Businesses can also combine their Lifetime Storage programme with Tegile IntelliPay, Tegile’s revolutionary consumption-based billing method that provides public cloud-like pricing in private data centres. Combined with Tegile’s inline deduplication and compression technology, IntelliPay measures storage consumption after these data reduction technologies to reduce data footprints, leading directly to cost savings for enterprises. Customers that move to a consumption-based billing model and avoid future capital outlays can deliver a public cloud-like economic model to their business while leveraging all of the benefits of on premises IT. Please note that IntelliPay is not yet available in EMEA.
