Case Study | WhipTail Tech

Kipp Bertke Director of IT The Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities Highlights:

VMware View virtual desktop

infrastructure deployed successfully & ahead of project deadline

Centralized infrastructure quickly realized ROI & lowered TCO. Increased user productivity via Windows 7 rollout

Virtual Desktop XLR8r

We assumed we could do it through our original SAN, which was a bad assumption

State of Ohio DODD Adopts WhipTail Virtual Desktop XLR8r SAN appliance for Enterprise-Wide VMware View Deployment
The Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities (DODD) is responsible for overseeing a statewide system of supports and services for the over 80,000 Ohioans with developmental disabilities and their families.

The Challenge:

Increase security, manageability, availability of condential data for clients and state employees Upgrade the states legacy IT infrastructure via accelerated Win 7 roll-out Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Project High-performing, cost-eective storage environment

The Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities (DODD) was challenged with several independent but equally mission-critical projects concurrently. After architecting and integrating VMwares server virtualization fully into their environment, Director of IT Kipp Bertke knew critical projects lye ahead. Most importantly, we identied the need to better secure, and manage the way data was being delivered to our clients and internal employees. Overlaying that with our needs to rollout Windows 7 and integrate a broader DR/BC plan, a virtual desktop infrastructure was a natural t stated Kipp. Selecting VMwares View to enable his IT sta to change, update and provision applications rapidly, Kipp sees this shift to a virtualized desktop model as a key for business agility and enhanced data security. However, when they began their design and architecture of the 1,500-user VMware View environment, challenges surrounding the storage infrastructure appeared. We assumed we could do it through our original SAN, which was a bad assumption. Even if could aord to expand our existing SAN, what happens if a production server or VDI users impact each other? We didnt want to go down that road. We wanted an independent SAN appliance for the View environment. noted Kipp.

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The Solution: The Virtual Desktop XLR8r

The DODD were not thrilled with the storage alternatives available. We reviewed other storage options to support the View deployment. Our existing SAN vendor does support SSD as a cache, but when implementing VDI there are a lot of unknowns, especially on a broader scale such as ours, which is in the thousands. With their IOP#s landing somewhere in the 20-50 range, and of which around 90% would be WRITE IOs, Kipp and his team were not afraid to look at a newer player in the storage space. With its incredible 250,000 WRITE IOPS and 95% savings on power, cooling and rack space, the 2U Virtual Desktop XLR8r became a focus for the DODDs design. Whiptails proprietary software spreads the writes around the complement of solid-state drives within its appliance. Its actually built to be accentuating SSDs and not just any array that has SSDs jammed into it. Their wear endurance software is a huge advantage and one of the single-biggest reasons we went with the XLR8rits purpose-built. Plain and simple.

Kipp Bertke Director of IT The Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities About WhipTail Tech
WhipTail Tech, based in Whippany, N.J., is an ISV of solid-state storage appliances designed to drastically improve the scalability and performance of applications such as virtualization, SQL, Oracle, OLTP and email. The companys Datacenter XLR8r and Virtual Desktop XLR8r reduce delays related to disk contention and access times thereby allowing database or virtualization servers to process more data in dramatically less time, while lowering the overall TCO up to 90 percent when compared to traditional storage.

WhipTail Technologies, Inc. 9 Whippany Rd Building 2 Whippany, NJ 07981 Tel: 1.888.550.8136 Fax: 1.888. 550.8137 www.whiptailtech.com

Its like buying a series of minivans for capacity when what I really need is the performance of a Ferrari at the cost of a Honda.

deployment

The Result: a faster, more cost eective

By oering 90% savings and immediate scalability when compared to their traditional storage arrays, Kipp added, The WhipTail XLR8r oered the opportunity for the DODD to accelerate the entire View deployment in this budget cycle. The existing SAN players are just not built this way: Its like buying a series of minivans for capacity when what I really need is the performance of a Ferrari at the cost of a Honda. We like companies like WhipTail that are thinking outside the box and adding business value to our enterprise. We were happy to jump on board with them and to recognize that ROI and long-term compelling TCO added Kipp The DODDs deployment of VMwares View virtual desktop software is one of the largest known state and local government rollouts in the USA. We couldnt have been successful without this elegant solid-state array.