Case Study
Finland’s National Institute for Health and Welfare Moves Up to Tintri Storage
www.tintri.com Finland’s National Institute for Health and Welfare Moves Up to Tintri Storage Company Background Finland’s National Institute for Health and Welfare (“Terveyden ja Hyvinvoinnin Laitos” in Finnish, or THL) is a research and development institute operating under the country’s Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. THL ’s mission is to promote the welfare and health of the people of Finland, preventing diseases and social problems, and developing social and health care activities and services. IT Challenges “We were having constant problems with our EMC storage systems,” noted Antti Lipponen, System Specialist for the Government ICT Centre at THL. “Our virtual environment was creating a lot of stress on the legacy storage systems, with latencies in excess of several h