Life-Science Innovations is keeping its backups running smoothly and on time after switching from NetApp storage solutions to Tintri. For several years LSI struggled to manage a NetApp storage solution over two datacenters with a highly virtualized environment. Backups had to be run at night to avoid impacting production servers too much. Also, patch updates, although started in the evening, would often run into the next day causing servers to reboot randomly throughout the day. Consultants recommended an expensive forklift upgrade to address the problem. Instead, LSI turned to Tintri. Starkenburg and his team installed multiple Tintri all-flash units, covering the company’s main datacenter for production workloads and a remote site for disaster recovery. With Tintri, LSI is replicating 100% of its servers between both sites every night, keeping 14 days of snapshots on the production systems and two snapshots remotely. LSI servers are now backed up during the day instead of overnight. And Starkenburg no longer has to worry about high I/O workloads impacting production systems. Also, LSI saves time and money by reducing the time it takes to manage backups. Before deploying Tintri, LSI storage administrators spent more than half of their time creating backups. Now, backups and ongoing management are much faster and easier with Tintri, according to Starkenburg.