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Tintri, Inc. is an American information technology company based in Mountain View, California. Tintri provides flash-based storage products specifically designed for virtualized and cloud environments. The company’s core product is Tintri VMstore™ with virtual machine (VM)-level data management and protection capabilities. Tintri describes its storage as “VM-aware which enables the end goal of delivering zero management storage™”. The system automatically aligns the storage infrastructure to match the application demands of the virtual infrastructure.

History
Tintri was founded by Dr. Kieran Harty, who formerly led development at VMware as their executive vice president of engineering. Many of Tintri's executives and senior technical people came from Brocade, EMC, Data Domain, Google, NetApp, and VMware.

Harty’s initial objective for Tintri was solving the problem of the mismatch between conventional storage and the demands of applications in virtualized environments, which causes complex configuration and management as well as over-provisioning.

Tintri has received more than $60 million in venture funding. The latest Series D round in July 2012 closed an overscribed $25 million funding round led by Menlo Ventures which was joined by existing investors New Enterprise Associates and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

In October 2013, Tintri announced Ken Klein, a Tintri board member and former President of Wind River Systems, has joined the company as Chairman and CEO.

Technology
Tintri VMstore uses VMs and virtual disks — in place of conventional storage abstractions such as LUNs and volumes — as core system management constructs. Its FlashFirst design deduplicates and compresses data in flash, eliminating the need to configure storage including RAID levels and tiering. VM-level QoS and performance allocation automatically monitors and controls IO to vdisks and VMs. Tintri also provides a global view of all the VMs stored on the VMstore and real-time view of latency from guest VMs, vSphere hosts, the network and storage.

Products
Tintri shipped its first-generation products in April 2011. Tintri released version 1.4 of their Tintri OS in April 2012 adding per-VM cloning (known as CloneVM™), snapshot (known as SnapVM™) and auto-alignment. SnapVMTM takes VM-granular snapshots using customizable VM-level schedules. CloneVMTM clones individual VMs either from Tintri or VMware vCenter, Horizon View and vCloud Director.

Tintri released version 2.0 in April 2013. This release added VM-granular replication (known as ReplicateVMTM). It replicates individual VMs between VMstore systems with customizable protection schedules and creates VM clones on remote VMstore systems.

At VMworld SF 2013, Tintri demonstrated support for VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOLs) at the event.

Tintri announced the T600 series with two new models and Tintri Global Center™ in October, 2013. The T650 can support up to 2000 VMs for enterprise workloads and large production-grade or test virtualization environments. The T620 supports 500 VMs for mid-sized companies. Global Center is a centralized platform which makes multiple geographically distributed VMstore systems to seamlessly function as one and over time will allow third-parties to extend Tintri functionality using APIs.

Certification
deployments.
 * Tintri systems and the Tintri VAAI plug-in are certified as VMware Ready.
 * Tintri and VMware VDI Reference Architecture for VMware® Horizon View™ 5.2 was tested by VMware and ESG.
 * Tintri is listed in the 2.1.2 version of the Cisco HCL (p. 50).
 * Tintrí systems are also certified Citrix Ready for XenDesktop VDI

Customers
Tintri has customers in all major verticals including financial services and legal, health care, technology, manufacturing, entertainment, education and government. Tintri’s customers range from midsized to Global 1000. Typical use cases include using Tintri to support Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), database, enterprise tier 1 applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint, software development and test and other general virtualization projects. Tintri sells to customers worldwide through its own sales force and its reseller partner network.

Awards and Recognition

 * CRN “The 10 Coolest Storage Startups of 2013”
 * CRN Emerging Vendors in 2013
 * Virtualization Review Editor’s Choice Award, 2013
 * Best of VMworld 2012 Gold Award in Hardware for Virtualization Category
 * Virtualization Review Reader’s Choice Awards, 2012
 * Best of VMworld 2011 Finalist