StorTrends® today announced that RTI, Inc. has deployed StorTrends high  performance storage appliances to optimize storage operations for its high  demand data center that support major fast-food restaurant customers across the   world. Using StorTrends, RTI is able to meet its SQL performance requirements  while also implementing greater security, reliability and protection of critical  data assets.

Since 1985,  RTI has helped some of the most well-known companies in the foodservice  industry such as McDonalds, Wendy’s, Arby’s, Moe’s, Checkers and many more. The  RTI restaurant back-office software, RTIconnect, meets the unique operational  needs of these quick-service and fast-casual industries. RTIconnect helps its  customers succeed, day in and day out, with the critical task of controlling  food and labor costs.

RTI needed  a highly reliable, high performance storage array to support the data center  that manages its operations for these major fast-food customers. Looking to  achieve high availability for its SQL servers with the flexibility to scale as  customer demands increase, RTI considered many storage options. Yet, after a  number of evaluations, RTI chose StorTrends.

“We needed  something that was going to perform at the level our SQL servers needed,” said  Phil Blakely, Network and Systems Administrator, RTI. “The specification certainly  seemed to be there and pricewise StorTrends compared favorably against other  devices in its same class. We found that metrics such as IOPS, throughput,  capacity and replication - as well as the flexibility of being able to connect  to multiple devices of StorTrends products were higher than our current  solution and in the range that we wanted to be.”

Since deploying the StorTrends storage solution,  RTI has been more than pleased with its performance. It efficiently supported  thin provisioning, auto tiering and advanced caching to provide the performance  boost RTI was searching for.  Now the  company is well positioned for future growth as it scales to support more  customers.

Key StorTrends features that have benefitted RTI  include:

• Advanced  data caching engine for extreme performance and acceleration of IO
• Auto-tiering  for the efficient movement of data between hot, warm and cold data tiers
• Advanced  snapshots for rapid recovery points in the event of file-based recovery or  volume rollback
• Zoned-Bit  Recording (ZBR) where the hottest data resides on the fastest outer tracks of  the spinning disk for improved latency
• Data  replication, deduplication, compression, encryption, WAN optimization and many  more features

“For companies, like RTI, that require high  performance data storage, such as All-Flash or Hybrid SANs, StorTrends offers  an industry leading feature-rich solution with a budget-friendly price tag,” said  Justin Bagby, Director of StorTrends. “Data is the critical information that fuels businesses to grow and compete in the digital driven  economy. They simple can’t afford any downtime or to allocate managed time for babysitting  a storage array. That’s why we have built a highly reliable, robust storage  solution that is easily managed while providing superior protection for customer’s  critical assets along with the ability to easily add capacity on-the-fly. For  customers like RTI, it’s easy to see why the StorTrends tagline is Performance  Storage. Proven Value.”