Tintri Provides Competitive Edge for PTS’ Hosted Cloud Service

Tintri Multi-Tenancy Storage Delivers High Performance, Management Simplicity, and Comprehensive Visibility for VDI and DR-as-a-Service Offerings PTS Data Center Solutions

“One of the largest growth areas we are now seeing is in the VDI market,” Pete Sacco, President and Founder of PTS Data Center Solutions reported. “While VMware Horizon is an impressive virtual desktop software offering, performance was lacking in our environment, mostly because of the added complexity of our underlying storage platform. To serve that market with NetApp, we had to use a very complex array of SSDs, flashcards and flash drives, and a myriad of different methodologies in order to get enough performance. Managing the NetApp environment was also overwhelming, which basically made VDI ‘far less sexy’ from a business perspective.”

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High Density, Low Budget: Massive Bitcoin Mines Spring Up in Warehouses

This is the first feature in our three-part series on Bitcoin mining infrastructure.

The Bitcoin mining craze is driving the creation of a new breed of computing facilities featuring high-density hardware, low-reliability electrical infrastructure and off-the-shelf enclosures. These “hashing centers” often are built in old warehouses and house servers on shelving from hardware stores like the Home Depot.

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