Wednesday, September 24, 2014

PTS, Tintri, & Veeam LIVE Webinar & Exotic Car Ride! Thursday, October 16th, 2014.


Join us for an exotic ride!
Thursday, October 16, 2014 from 12:00 to 5:00PM EST
(Live Webinar from 2:00 to 3:00)
  PTS Headquarters
16 Thornton Road
 Oakland, NJ 07436
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT

PTS Data Center Solutions, Veeam, and Tintri have teamed up to provide a wide range of capabilities that will help you eliminate storage bottlenecks while also ensuring that your data is easily managed and fully protected-both on and offsite.
Please join us to celebrate our collaboration with a free webinar and hear real-time customer testimonials on how they overcame their data center pain points with PTS Data Center Solutions, Veeam, and Tintri. Webinar will take place at PTS' Headquarters in Oakland, NJ.
Lamborghini
Food, drinks, the ability to tour PTS' HQ and Cloud Data Center, and the opportunity to drive one of the exotic sports cars starting from 12:00 noon to 5:00PM, with the Veeam/Tintri presentation and live demonstration commencing promptly at 2:00PM.

For more information, please call us at (201) 337-3833 or learn more at:

Friday, September 19, 2014

Tintri Provides Competitive Edge for
PTS Data Center Solutions’ Hosted Cloud Service

Tintri Multi-Tenancy Storage Delivers High Performance, Management Simplicity, and Comprehensive Visibility for VDI and DR-as-a-Service Offerings

Tintri Case Study: Competitive Edge for PTS Hosted Cloud Service"Tintri’s approach to VM- and application-aware storage is a game changer. It’s giving me a distinct advantage over all of the other cloud providers, and there are a myriad of them out there. With Tintri, we will be one of the first service providers with the ability to do multitenancy for VDI and DR, with a virtually optimized high IOPS array."
Pete Sacco
President and Founder
PTS Data Center Solutions

Key Challenges
  • Experiencing inadequate performance in hosted desktop environment
  • Existing storage platform was difficult to manage
  • Lacked visibility into storage arrays at the VM level for troubleshooting and optimization 
Primary Use Case
  • Cloud-based, hosted desktop virtualization and Disaster Recovery-as-a-service.
Virtualization environment
  • VMware® vSphere™ 5. 5
  • VMware Horizon 6.0
  • Traditional storage: Dell EqualLogic and NetApp FAS arrays
VM profile
  • SQL Server 2008
  • Application Servers 2008r2
    - Veeam Backup
    - SharePoint
  • Web Servers 2008r2
  • Active Directory
  • Virtual Desktop Server 2012 with MS Windows v8.1 Desktops (POC)
Tintri Solution
  • Tintri VMstore™ T650
Business Benefits
  • Obtained higher performance for VDI and DR
  • Increased management simplicity and visibility
  • Provided multi-tenancy, enabling PTS to offer cost-effective DR-as-a-service

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Is it Time to Accessorize your Data Center?

PTS Aurora Wireless Temperature Monitoring Strips
Fashionistas aren't the only ones who have need to accessorize; sometimes data center managers rely on certain accessories that are designed to smooth a data center's daily operations, help things run more efficiently, and even extend the lifespan of their assets. Alongside the main components of a data center, there are other factors that need to be addressed to keep things running, including uninterruptible power, efficient cooling systems, and fire protection, to name a few. Beyond these mission-critical systems, there exists a variety of add-on products that serve specific needs that may apply to your situation.

A few of PTS' recommended data center accessories are as follows:
Use of these accessories may save you time, may save you money, and may even change the way you run your data center's daily operations.  In any case, these, and other accessories, should be considered in all data centers.