VMblog: If you were giving a VMware Explore attendee a quick overview of the company, what would you say? How would you describe the company?
Brock Mowry: Tintri, a wholly owned subsidiary of DataDirect Networks (DDN), delivers purpose-built, AI-powered solutions to store and manage virtual machines in enterprise data centers. Thousands of customers have saved countless administrative hours using Tintri's innovative technologies. Explore the Tintri portfolio of solutions at https://www.tintri.com.
VMblog: As a VMware Explore 2023 sponsor, what does that sponsorship look like? Will you have a large delegation at this year's event? Do you have a theme for your booth? Do you have anything interesting planned at your booth?
Mowry: Tintri is a silver sponsor for VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas. Attendees can find us exhibiting from Aug. 21-24, 2023 at booth #805. We'll hosting 10 Geek Out! LIVE Technology Demo Sessions throughout the duration of the show in our Engagement Zone across from our booth.
Tintri will be showcasing its AI-powered data management solutions for virtualized workloads, including its VMstoreTM intelligent data management system. Tintri VMstore was purpose-built for virtualized infrastructures, specifically virtual servers, VDI and SQL databases, and has been truly VM-aware since 2011. Demonstrating best practices for VMstore capabilities such as Tintri Global Center (TGC), Tintri Analytics, Service Groups, and VMstore VM Scale-Out, attendees will experience the unmatched simplicity in workload management with completely autonomous and hands-free operations that VMstore provides. With a focus on Data Protection (DP) and Disaster Recovery (DR), Tintri will showcase how VMstore's robust data protection and recovery features provide organizations peace of mind with their most critical data. With Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) as low as 1 minute, DR with zero data loss can be achieved with simply a couple clicks.
VMblog: What made your company sponsor VMware Explore this year? Why is this a must sponsor event for your company?
Mowry: Tintri has sponsored VMware events over many years. We are sponsoring VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas based on our strong relationship and long history with VMware.
Tintri solutions are purpose-built for VMware environments. For example Tintri VM-aware storage, which simplifies IT complexity and reduces costs associated with traditional storage solutions, has been available since 2011. You can visit us at VMware Explore to experience one of our Geek Out! LIVE Technology Demo sessions titled, "A Brief History of Tintri," which will touch on the inception of Tintri and the role that VMware played in it.
VMblog: Is this your company's first time sponsoring this event? If so, why this year? If not, what keeps you coming back to this event?
Mowry: Tintri has previously sponsored VMware Explore as well as VMworld. We recognize that VMware is focused on customer innovation, solving problems faced in multi-workload, multi-cloud and multi-workspace IT environments, which aligns with Tintri's mission. That is why we are a repeat sponsor for the event. Our mutual interest is to continue to innovate and provide high performance, easy to implement and use, purpose-built solutions for the enterprise.
VMblog: Do you have any speaking sessions during the event? If so, can you give us the details?
Mowry: Tintri will also host Geek Out! LIVE Technology Demo Sessions in the Engagement Zone across from the Tintri booth. Topics will include Analytics, Disaster/Data Recovery, Databases, and more. Tintri's CTO, Brock Mowry, will make a special presentation on Aug. 22 at 11 a.m. PDT highlighting Tintri's new cloud offerings.
Tintri will also be hosting "Sips and Tips" in its booth, providing an espresso bar and live demos by Tintri technology experts.
VMblog: What are you personally most interested in seeing or learning at VMware Explore?
Mowry: I'm interested in seeing what's next with VMware. Their events have always been a place for the industry to gather and learn about new features and initiatives. Technology and business is evolving, so it will be great to hear about all the upcoming developments with not only the VMware platform, but with the business as well.
VMblog: Can you give us the high-level rundown of your company's technology offerings? What kind of message will an attendee hear from you this year?
Mowry: Tintri delivers AI-powered data management solutions that are architected for virtualized workloads with analytics to help customers make data management simple and worry-free a plan for the future with precision. Tintri is committed to providing enterprises with powerful, simple and flexible solutions to future-proof their data management infrastructure. For more information, visit https://tintri.com.
VMblog: Talking about your product solutions, can you give readers a few examples of how your offerings are unique? What are your differentiators? What sets you apart from the competition?
Mowry: Tintri offers one of the most under realized technologies on the market today. Within our main enterprise segment, 60% of the Fortune 1000, we find thousands to tens of thousands of VMs under management. These deployments have become quite labor and equipment intensive.
Tintri delivers automated QoS, based on statistics and data metrics gathered from within the end-user's environment. Rather than basing it on what we think or what somebody else thinks it should be, Tintri collects statistics and over time, readjusts resources to properly serve those VMs. Our customers can leverage this intelligence for troubleshooting and planning. Tintri delivers the most robust and thorough I/O stack analytics in real time which enables issue identification with the network, compute, storage, and all points in between. This allows us to pinpoint issues long before they impact the business. This capability becomes even more critical as we expand into hybrid cloud, edge, and remote device type deployments. Data recency and locality has grown as a point of interest and the size of data sets are exploding. Our built-in intelligence and modeling capabilities allow our customers to gather, analyze and execute based on their own data usage patterns. Build your platforms on your actual usage patterns, not what we or any other vendor says you should be doing.
One key differentiator that Tintri offers is the ability to eliminate those problems. With our AI engine and workload awareness, which is built into our solutions, those tasks and issues are eliminated.
Tintri VMstore is a powerful, flexible, and simple solution. It is the world's most intelligent storage management system, featuring AI-driven autonomous operations, app-level visibility and real-time and predictive analytics for hands-off operations for nearly all administrative tasks - reducing administrative overhead by as much as 95%. The next-generation V7000 is the first NVMe-based VMstore platform, leveraging DDN's award-winning NVMe technology and providing 30% faster performance than previous generation VMstore systems. VMstore T7000 customers benefit from using the same storage hardware controller as DDN at-scale solutions, deployed in the most demanding AI, analytics, deep learning, and high IOPS workloads on the planet.
Another solution is Tintri Analytics, a cloud-based SaaS offering that provides the predictive intelligence to inform and automate important workload decisions and to model future application requirements for capacity and performance based on the actual usage patterns of existing applications.
Tintri Analytics is designed from the ground up to support resource planning and leverages over three years of real-time VM- and container-level data, including historical and current performance and resource usage statistics on every application in a VMstore environment.
What sets Tintri Analytics apart from other analytics tools is that it has visibility at the object VM level, distinguishing it from the others; it detects the signature of a ransomware event at the VM or application level; it can be used to restore to just the VMs involved in the attack to a point in time prior to the appearance of the malware; it creates scenarios where workloads or VMstore systems are added or deleted; and it enhances the language and provides metadata trends by managed object (VMware VMs).
For existing VMstore customers, Tintri offers Data Security Services used to locate risk without expensive security services and impacts to production systems with Automated Vulnerability Scanning. Tintri also provides support for VMware Tanzu and other common Kubernetes distributions.
VMblog: What specifically does your company offer a VMware shop or a VMware implementation? What problems do you solve for them?
Mowry: Tintri was purpose-built for virtualized infrastructures. Our methodology and backend storage technology was designed to offer VMware users a greatly simplified solution.
Tintri VMstore provides simple integration, visibility, analytics, and data protection at the managed object level. This eliminates manually managing storage constructs such as LUNs or volumes and enables VMstore to leverage machine learning and ensure the service needs of each individual workload.
As previously mentioned, we deliver on QoS as the only provider of automated QoS, based on statistics and data metrics gathered from within the end-user's environment. Tintri collects statistics and over time, readjusts resources to properly serve those VMs.
VMblog: How does your company work with VMware? Where do you fit within the VMware ecosystem?
Mowry: Tintri's founders were originally from VMware. When the company was founded in 2008, our solutions were purpose-built for VMware environments. Through our strong relationships, we partnered on training and API integration, sharing methodologies and conducting joint walkthrough support agreements for our employees. Tintri continues to innovate, constantly enhancing, updating and advancing capabilities for its customers working in VMware environments.
VMblog: VMworld has typically been a launching platform for new products. At VMware Explore, will your company be announcing anything new? If so, can you give us a sneak peek? Or, have you launched anything new recently that you can spotlight for us?
Mowry: We'll be announcing our new cloud offerings on Tuesday, Aug. 22 at VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas. We can't share full details now, however, come visit us at our booth (#805) on Aug. 22 at 11 a.m. PDT to see a Geek Out! LIVE Technology Demo Session with the details about our new product offerings.
VMblog: Are you giving away any prizes at your booth or participating in any prize giveaways?
Mowry: At our epic Geek Out! LIVE Technology Demo Sessions over the duration of the event, attendees can learn more about Tintri's purpose-built solutions for virtualized workloads - and have a chance to win a Tintri branded Nintendo Switch by attending.
VMblog: Is your company sponsoring any type of party or get together during the event?
Mowry: Tintri is a sponsor of the VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas Hall Crawl, which will take place on Tuesday, Aug. 22 from 5-7 p.m. PDT in The Expo. Attendees can get up close and personal with the VMware ecosystem, sponsors and exhibitors. They can also participate in giveaways, get in-depth product information, pick up some swag, and socialize while enjoying snacks and drinks at the sponsor booths. For this, we will be serving up a variety of "Sips and Tips" with Stella and Sierra Nevada.
