IT Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 20
2023-11-28T17:08:00Z
Nov 28, 2023
The price of Tintri VMstore is not overly high compared to similar solutions. However, as with any storage solution, functionality and hardware are constantly evolving, so pricing is always subject to change. Overall, it's a good package that is competitively priced. I believe Tintri's strategy is to target smaller companies that need a storage solution with a specific capacity and performance level, without having to break the bank. Unlike Dell and HP, which tend to offer more expensive solutions, Tintri aims to provide a more affordable option. Overall, Tintri VMstore is well-positioned in the market, especially considering the additional services it offers.
We haven't found Tintri's pricing to be a barrier to entry for any of our customers. Tintri works through a number of distributors and when we've had to purchase it for our customers we have found the pricing to be competitive. We've worked with customers that have to get a three-quote comparison. A recent example was a customer that was looking at IBM storage, Tintri, and Dell. Tintri was competitive on price-for-features, as well as licensing and the support model. We didn't have a reason to push the customer in any other direction than Tintri. We felt that the feature set, performance, pricing, and total cost of ownership, inclusive of the operating expenses and administration, made Tintri a no-brainer.
Director of Technical Services at Court of Appeals of Georgia
Real User
2022-12-03T07:29:00Z
Dec 3, 2022
I've always gotten excellent pricing. I'm very satisfied with the pricing that I receive. The licensing has gotten simpler. When we bought it, everything was an add-on. If you wanted real-time replication, you bought that as a feature. There were three different levels of software that you could buy, based on what you wanted it to do. Now, that is all wrapped into one SKU and it all comes with it. So it does appear like it is more expensive. I could see that there may be an issue where some people don't need this or that and don't want to have to license it. Maybe they have licensing options that I haven't discussed with my sales team. But flash arrays are very expensive, per terabyte. But if you're looking at the fact that they're doing deduplication and compression, and now they're doing on-disk encryption, you're getting a tremendous number of features so I think they offset each other. If you're not using one feature, you're probably going to use another. We still buy our array from the point of view of what the real, raw storage is versus the compressed storage that they market it at. They'll say, "This is a 60-terabyte array," but you find out that it's really 36 terabytes and they're anticipating maybe a two-to-one or better compression rate. We're an appellate court and 99 percent of what we deal with are huge volumes of PDFs. Those things just don't compress. I haven't looked at what some of the other solutions are charging these days for some of the individual software pieces, but I feel that there is a lot of value in the simplicity, ease of use, and hands-off nature of Tintri. You're getting tremendous value based on time. You're avoiding having to have another staff member, at some point, to manage your storage because it is so simply managed and takes care of itself. You can task the people you have doing that to do other things. That's what we did.
Ensure the storage system "natively" supports the protocols that you wish to use (i.e., CIFS) without the need for the overhead of internal "conversion VMs" that run the protocols.
Windows Systems Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2017-08-16T06:50:00Z
Aug 16, 2017
Explore the Tintri Synchronous Replication feature (licensing is required). This is a good solution to protect your environment at Storage Level and your RTO will be improved by this.
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The price of Tintri VMstore is not overly high compared to similar solutions. However, as with any storage solution, functionality and hardware are constantly evolving, so pricing is always subject to change. Overall, it's a good package that is competitively priced. I believe Tintri's strategy is to target smaller companies that need a storage solution with a specific capacity and performance level, without having to break the bank. Unlike Dell and HP, which tend to offer more expensive solutions, Tintri aims to provide a more affordable option. Overall, Tintri VMstore is well-positioned in the market, especially considering the additional services it offers.
We haven't found Tintri's pricing to be a barrier to entry for any of our customers. Tintri works through a number of distributors and when we've had to purchase it for our customers we have found the pricing to be competitive. We've worked with customers that have to get a three-quote comparison. A recent example was a customer that was looking at IBM storage, Tintri, and Dell. Tintri was competitive on price-for-features, as well as licensing and the support model. We didn't have a reason to push the customer in any other direction than Tintri. We felt that the feature set, performance, pricing, and total cost of ownership, inclusive of the operating expenses and administration, made Tintri a no-brainer.
What I have heard, price-wise, is that Tinti was definitely very competitive. That's one of the reasons it was chosen for us.
I've always gotten excellent pricing. I'm very satisfied with the pricing that I receive. The licensing has gotten simpler. When we bought it, everything was an add-on. If you wanted real-time replication, you bought that as a feature. There were three different levels of software that you could buy, based on what you wanted it to do. Now, that is all wrapped into one SKU and it all comes with it. So it does appear like it is more expensive. I could see that there may be an issue where some people don't need this or that and don't want to have to license it. Maybe they have licensing options that I haven't discussed with my sales team. But flash arrays are very expensive, per terabyte. But if you're looking at the fact that they're doing deduplication and compression, and now they're doing on-disk encryption, you're getting a tremendous number of features so I think they offset each other. If you're not using one feature, you're probably going to use another. We still buy our array from the point of view of what the real, raw storage is versus the compressed storage that they market it at. They'll say, "This is a 60-terabyte array," but you find out that it's really 36 terabytes and they're anticipating maybe a two-to-one or better compression rate. We're an appellate court and 99 percent of what we deal with are huge volumes of PDFs. Those things just don't compress. I haven't looked at what some of the other solutions are charging these days for some of the individual software pieces, but I feel that there is a lot of value in the simplicity, ease of use, and hands-off nature of Tintri. You're getting tremendous value based on time. You're avoiding having to have another staff member, at some point, to manage your storage because it is so simply managed and takes care of itself. You can task the people you have doing that to do other things. That's what we did.
As it is a flash array storage, it is much more expensive than a traditional disk-based storage system.
The pricing is reasonable.
Make sure that you have all licenses in one go. Options afterwards can cost extra. An "all-in-one" license model would be better at this price range.
Ensure the storage system "natively" supports the protocols that you wish to use (i.e., CIFS) without the need for the overhead of internal "conversion VMs" that run the protocols.
Explore the Tintri Synchronous Replication feature (licensing is required). This is a good solution to protect your environment at Storage Level and your RTO will be improved by this.