Gymboree Corporation Case Study on Tintri VMstore

This case study details Gymboree Corporation's transition from physical to virtual storage solutions using Tintri VMstore. Located in San Francisco, Gymboree operates over 1,200 specialty retail stores across the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada. The study outlines the challenges faced by the company, including disparate storage solutions that increased operating costs and reduced functionality. Jessie LaCome, the IT lead, highlights issues such as poor application performance and management overhead due to existing systems. The solution involved implementing the Tintri VMstore T5040, which provided high performance and ease of management. The results demonstrated significant improvements, including the elimination of IOPS problems, reduced storage management time, and a smaller data center footprint. The case study emphasizes the effectiveness of Tintri's proactive support and the overall benefits of migrating to a more streamlined virtualized platform.