Case Study
Tintri Upgrade Enables ICC Chemical Corporation to Simplify Storage Management and Boost VDI Performance
Tintri Upgrade Enables ICC Chemical Corporation to Simplify Storage Management and Boost VDI Performance
@tintri www.tintri.com IT Challenges ICC Chemical Corporation trades and distributes chemicals, plastics, and pharmaceuticals throughout the world from its headquarters in New York City and 25 global offices. Stephen Savard is the IT manager at ICC Chemical Corporation. He is responsible for all the servers, storage, networking, and virtual infrastructure at the company’s primary datacenter. ICC Chemical deployed virtual desktops for its internal users in 2012, using a NetApp storage system purchased during the company’s initial virtualization initiative. “When we virtualized our environment a few years ago with vSphere, VMware gave us 50 licenses of VMware View,” noted Savard. “We sized our storage before VDI was part of the picture. Performance was OK on the NetApp systems, but a