Tintri asked me to put together some technology predictions for 2018. You can access the "on-demand webinar" here: https://info.tintri.com/Predictions-Webinar-Series-On-Demand-JumpPage.htm, or wait for the blog entry, or ask for spoilers. :)

Tintri has historically held its sales kickoff in the Bay Area to be close to headquaters. This year we went to Las Vegas instead, at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. I don't like going to Las Vegas; among the reasons is cigarette smoke and the Hard Rock is no exception ( Read more... )

I've been talking to people who have built cloud services that communicate with on-premises equipment (like storage arrays or routers.) One of my questions has been: "can you give me an example of some difficulties, or customer requirements, that you've encountered about the device-to-cloud communication channel ( Read more... )

Over at the Tintri blog, I wrote a study of NFS operation sizes in Tintri's customer base. I looked at averages weighted by operation and by byte, and tried to apply K-means clustering to the data to discover patterns of usage ( Read more... )

Tintri made a bunch of product announcements today. We introduced our first all-flash storage appliances, the T5060 and T5080, which run the same Tintri OS as the hybrid models ( Read more... )

When we ask our customers "Would you recommend Tintri to a friend or colleague?" an astonishingly large number say yes ( Read more... )

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The year-end press release from Tintri by the numbers:

* 3 new models, which accounted for 75% of our Q4 revenue
* 5 of the Fortune 15 companies are customers
* 11 million-dollar accounts
* 30PB of virtual machines running on Tintri
* $75m in new funding
* >100% year-over-year growth
* >1500 systems in the field

The Tintri VMstore was one of 33 winners selected by Infoworld for their 2015 Technology of the Year. It's nice to get some mainstream(-ish) recognition and be put in the same category as cool consumer tech like the iPhone 6 and hot software technologies like Neo4j or Apache Storm. There were just four pieces of enterprise hardware on the list: ( Read more... )

Gartner is a well-known research and advisory firm in information technology. Their most popular reports use Gartner's "magic quadrant" methodology to compare firms based on their ability to execute and vision for the technology ( Read more... )