W. Curtis Preston interviews Rob Commins, VP of Marketing for Tegile, at SNW 2012 in Santa Clara, CA. They talk about the design behind Tegile, which produces midrange storage systems with a blend of solid-state and spinning disk. It's a block-end file hybrid and can be SSD only if the user chooses so. Most customers find a significant data reduction rate when using it. It does dedupe and thin provisioning compression on an engine which sits in front of solid-state and DRAM-based cache, which allows it to place more data in the cache and therefore boost cache hit ratio. The dedupe and compression is placed very early in the data path, so deduped and compressed data is placed in the cache. The result is a boosted performance and a high cache hit ratio for end-user applications.

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• W. Curtis Preston
• Rob Commins
• Tegile
• Storage Networking World