KPIT Boosts Virtual Desktop performance with EMC’s All-Flash Technology

KPIT Technologies, a global IT consulting and product engineering partner, has deployed EMC’s XtremIO™ all-flash scale-out enterprise storage array to deliver massive I/O performance for its (KPIT) virtual desktops. By installing XtremeIO™, KPIT can now provide 10 times the performance of its previous infrastructure on a small data center footprint, in turn improving the performance of the company’s applications. By reducing the response time for both office-based and mobile users, KPIT’s workforce has increased its flexibility and  overall productivity, resulting in a positive impact on customer service levels. The scale-out architecture of XtremIO™ would enable KPIT to double the number of virtual desktops in the next 12 months.

The press release claimed, KPIT is the first enterprise in India to implement EMC’s Vblock architecture for its private cloud and rolled out 1,500 virtual desktops in 2010. EMC has enabled KPIT to further expand this number— with  XtremIO™—which provides millions of IOPS from a very small footprint. KPIT’s virtual desktop environment will now run exclusively on XtremIO™ while the Vblock and EMC VSPEX® will support mission-critical applications.

With KPIT’s end users expecting the same responsiveness from their desktops as they get from flash-based devices, the end-user resistance has been addressed through EMC’s all-flash storage technology implemented in the datacenter. XtremIO™ applications run on a flash disk, which provides thousands of IOPS to enable consistent, fast performance for applications using the virtual desktop infrastructure and thereby assisting KPIT to deliver improved customer service to exacting deadlines.

Commenting on his flash experience, MandarMarulkar, Vice President and CIO at KPIT Technologies, said, “When you write operations to either a local flash array or an external flash disk, there is degradation in the read/write performance. However, we are being able to run the full array seamlessly, without any noticeable change to our users. All-flash arrays like EMC XtremIO™ are now playing a major role in helping companies like ours, to run critical applications like Virtual desktops, databases where we need to load applications, development tools and utilities on the fly and presenting them in real time.”