What Tintri does

Tintri is a US-based enterprise data management company that provides AI-powered, workload-aware storage infrastructure purpose-built for virtualized and containerized environments. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Chatsworth, California, the company operates as a subsidiary of DDN (DataDirect Networks) and sells primarily to Fortune 100 enterprises and large organizations across verticals including healthcare, finance, government, education, pharmaceutical, and technology. Named customers span AMD, Johns Hopkins University, Lincoln Financial Group, Boingo Wireless, the US Marine Corps Global Command & Control System, and Court of Appeals Georgia, with the company claiming thousands of customers globally.

The company's core product is VMstore, an on-premises workload management platform that has been VM-aware since 2011 and manages data at the level of individual VMs, containers, and databases rather than at the LUN/volume level. The platform architecture features a patented per-application monitoring technology that guarantees sub-millisecond latency with dedicated I/O lanes per workload, eliminating the noisy-neighbor problem. Management is unified through Tintri Global Center, which federates up to 64 VMstore systems (165PB) as a single pane of glass. The software suite bundled into every VMstore system includes SyncVM (snapshot management), ReplicateVM (asynchronous replication with RPOs as low as one minute), SecureVM (encryption), Cloud Connector (cloud-tiered snapshots), and SQL Integrated Storage. Tintri Analytics provides cloud-based predictive analytics using machine learning, forecasting capacity and compute needs up to 18 months in advance. Kubernetes is supported via the VMstore CSI Driver, and the platform extends to hybrid cloud through Tintri Cloud Engine (TCE) and fully managed services through Tintri Cloud Platform (TCP).

Tintri's business model combines hardware sales (VMstore T7000 Series and T7290 appliances) with subscription support services and managed cloud infrastructure revenue. The company sells through direct enterprise field sales with solutions-expert consultations and 30-day test drives, and distributes through a global network of authorized channel partners. Specific pricing is not publicly disclosed. Recent strategic moves include the March 2026 strategic partnership with Platform9 to deliver bundled AI-ready infrastructure and a same-period open-source OpenTelemetry integration with Integration Plumbers, both signaling expansion into AI workloads and cloud-native observability ecosystems.

Name

Tintri

Legal name

Tintri

Website

https://tintri.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Tintri provides AI-powered, workload-aware enterprise storage infrastructure built for virtualized and containerized workloads. A DDN subsidiary serving Fortune 100 enterprises and thousands of customers across healthcare, finance, government, and technology via its flagship VMstore platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise Storage and Data Management

NAICS

Computer Storage Device Manufacturing (334112), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Computer Storage Devices (3572)

akta.pro primary industry

Kubernetes & Container Platform Management (Private Cloud) (HDABABAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Hybrid Cloud Compute & Virtualization Stack (HCI/VMs/Kubernetes) (HDABAMAF), Container Runtime & Image Infrastructure (HDABADAG), Cloud-Native Enablement (Containers, Kubernetes, Service Mesh) (BPAEAKAE), General-Purpose Compute (VMs & Bare Metal IaaS) (HDABAAAA)

Keywords

• Enterprise data management
• Workload-aware storage
• Virtualized infrastructure
• AI-ready storage platform
• VM storage systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Mountain View

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Operations

Revenue model

1. VMstore Hardware and Software Systems: Tintri sells VMstore hardware systems bundled with software (Tintri OS / TxOS). The platform includes the VMstore Software Suite (SyncVM, ReplicateVM, SecureVM, Cloud Connector, SQL-Integrated Storage, Tintri Global Center) as part of all VMstore systems. Enterprise-grade on-premises storage with scale from 65TB to 1,650TB (165PB) in federated pools.
2. Subscription and Support Services: Tintri provides support services including 24/7 technical support, software updates, support portal access, and severity-level SLA support contracts. Support is available globally with international phone numbers.
3. Managed Cloud Services (TCP/TCE): Tintri Cloud Platform (TCP) delivers managed infrastructure as a service including Virtual Data Center, IaaS, and DRaaS. Tintri Cloud Engine (TCE) decouples hardware from software for cloud deployments. Both are subscription/usage-based managed services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Tintri provides an AI-powered, workload-aware data management platform centered on its VMstore system, purpose-built for virtualized and containerized workloads. The company sells on-premises storage hardware with bundled software (Tintri OS / TxOS), cloud-delivered managed infrastructure (Tintri Cloud Platform), and a container-driven cloud extension (Tintri Cloud Engine), along with replication, snapshot, encryption, and Kubernetes integration capabilities. The platform manages data at the level of individual VMs, containers, and databases — not at the LUN/volume level — and supports multiple hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V, Red Hat) plus Kubernetes in a single system.

Product overview

Tintri offers a unified, AI-powered data management platform centered on VMstore, purpose-built for virtualized and containerized workloads. The portfolio comprises three main deployment options: VMstore (on-premises workload management), Tintri Cloud Engine (TCE, container-driven cloud extension), and Tintri Cloud Platform (TCP, fully managed cloud infrastructure). Management is unified through Tintri Global Center (TGC), while Tintri Analytics provides predictive and real-time analytics. The VMstore Software Suite bundles value-added modules including SyncVM (snapshot management), ReplicateVM (async replication), SecureVM (encryption), Cloud Connector (cloud backup), and SQL Integrated Storage (database-aware management). Kubernetes support is delivered via the CSI Driver and Kubernetes Data Services. The platform's core differentiator is workload-aware autonomous operations with guaranteed per-VM QoS, eliminating traditional storage complexity like RAID, LUN, and Volume configuration.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• VMstore: On-Prem workload management platform for virtualized environments with autonomous operations and AI-driven analytics
• Tintri Cloud Platform (TCP)
• Tintri Cloud Engine (TCE)

Products and services

• Tintri VMstore On-premises workload management platform purpose-built for virtualized workloads. Provides AI-powered autonomous operations, VM-aware data management with guaranteed QoS per workload, real-time and predictive analytics, and built-in data protection including immutable snapshots. Includes the VMstore Software Suite (SyncVM, ReplicateVM, SecureVM, Cloud Connector, SQL-Integrated Storage, Tintri Global Center) as part of all VMstore systems.
• VMstore T7000 Series Flagship enterprise-grade storage hardware line including T7200 Series and T7290. Systems deploy in minutes, self-optimize, and dynamically adapt to accommodate demanding workloads while maintaining per-VM QoS.
• Tintri Cloud Engine (TCE) Container-driven VMstore platform that decouples Tintri hardware from Tintri software for hybrid cloud environments. Enables Tintri VMstore customers to utilize cloud resources for disaster recovery and ransomware protection solutions.
• Tintri Cloud Platform (TCP) Managed infrastructure powered by Tintri VMstore providing Virtual Data Center (VDC), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). Delivers compute, network, capacity, security, backup, and disaster recovery through co-located carrier-neutral data centers in the USA.
• Tintri Global Center (TGC) Centralized management platform enabling service-level policy control across federated VMstore systems. Manages and monitors up to 64 VMstore systems as one with complete visibility into individual VMs, containers, and databases.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduce storage management costs by up to 95%
• +9 more outcomes

Named customers23 records

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

AI capability7 records

Feature14 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Platform9 Systems Inc.coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 March 2026Strategic partnership announced March 25, 2026 to deliver a bundled AI-ready infrastructure solution combining Tintri's VMstore technology with Platform9's Private Cloud Director. The joint platform unifies AI workloads under a single management system, addressing bottlenecks in real-time data processing and reducing per-AI-transaction costs. The offering includes a powerful data center component supporting multiple VM types and containerized applications side-by-side, plus an edge AI component for real-time data capture and continuous model updates. Available through Tintri's global network of authorized partners.
• Integration PlumberscoreTechnology or Integration · 25 March 2026Partnership announced March 25, 2026 to launch an open-source integration connecting Tintri's VMstore platform to the OpenTelemetry ecosystem. Built natively on OpenTelemetry standards, the integration ingests Tintri's granular storage metrics into existing observability pipelines (Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus). Delivers full-stack visibility by eliminating storage silos, accelerating troubleshooting, and enabling unified monitoring of storage alongside application and infrastructure telemetry. The project will be officially contributed to the OpenTelemetry open-source community.
• EntaraminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerTintri partnered with Entara, a security-focused eXtended Service Provider, to help educate customers about ransomware. Entara's Director of Professional Services, Mike Brunetti, contributes thought leadership content on Tintri's Talk In platform discussing ransomware prevention and recovery best practices, breach remediation, and the role of technology choices in saving time and money during a crisis.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Pure Storage: Pure Storage delivers all-flash enterprise storage (FlashArray) and container storage (Portworx). Directly competes with Tintri in flash storage for virtualized workloads and increasingly in Kubernetes data services — both target the same enterprise IT buyer with workload-aware value propositions.
• Infinidat: Infinidat delivers enterprise-class high-capacity storage (InfiniBox, InfiniGuard) with strong data protection and cyber resilience. Direct competitor in enterprise storage for virtualized workloads, with overlapping value propositions around guaranteed performance SLAs and ransomware recovery.
• Nutanix: Nutanix provides hyperconverged infrastructure combining compute, storage, and virtualization with workload-aware data services. Directly comparable to Tintri's VM-centric platform, particularly around VMware alternatives and hybrid cloud — Tintri's Platform9 partnership explicitly positions against Nutanix.
• NetApp: NetApp is a leading enterprise storage vendor offering hybrid and all-flash arrays (AFF, FAS) with ONTAP. Directly comparable to Tintri as a primary enterprise storage competitor; multiple Tintri customer case studies reference replacing NetApp infrastructure.

Emerging players

• Cohesity: Cohesity specializes in data protection, backup, and ransomware recovery for enterprise and cloud environments. Comparable to Tintri's SyncVM, ReplicateVM, and immutable snapshot capabilities — addresses overlapping use cases around VM-level data protection and cyber resilience.
• Vast Data: VAST Data offers a unified data platform combining storage, database, and AI/analytics capabilities. Represents the emerging generation of AI-native storage challengers; partial overlap with Tintri's AI workload positioning and Kubernetes data services ambitions.
• Rubrik: Rubrik provides cloud data management, backup, and ransomware recovery with Zero Trust security. Overlaps with Tintri's data protection, immutable snapshots, and ransomware recovery capabilities; both target the same enterprise IT buyer seeking integrated cyber-resilient data management.

Broad incumbents

• Dell Technologies: Dell's PowerStore and PowerScale enterprise storage offerings compete broadly with Tintri VMstore. Dell is a much larger incumbent with broader portfolio (servers, networking, VMware integration), serving the same Fortune 500 buyer for virtualized workload storage.
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE): HPE Alletra (formerly Nimble/3PAR) provides enterprise storage with AI-driven management and disaggregated infrastructure. Competes with Tintri for enterprise virtualized workload storage and hybrid cloud deals, with much larger global support and services footprint.
• VMware (Broadcom): VMware vSAN provides hyperconverged storage integrated with VMware virtualization. Closely coupled to Tintri's VM-aware platform given VMware hypervisor dominance; Broadcom's VMware ownership creates both partnership tension and alternative vendor threat.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses1 record

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Tintri
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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tintri

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds8 records

Investors11 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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