Sanbolic Melio 2010 Clustered File System Provides Advanced Storage Features for Windows Server 2008 R2

The Melio Product Suite family uses a single installer and allows customers to access additional features with a license key upgrade. Melio Enterprise Suite and Melio Data Center Suite add support for concurrent shared access to all file types on a SAN volume, as well as Sanbolic's AppCluster active-active SQL clustering software and FilerScaler management software for shared-data file serving cluster. The Melio Data Center product suite also offers additional infrastructure management features, including remote volume configuration and assignment, RAID 1, dynamic volume expansion, quality of service management, and shared access to SAN application data volumes from virtual machines. Four licenses for virtual machines are included with each host license of the data center suite.

Sanbolic's software supports Live Migration on Hyper-V, and is fully compatible with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. The Failover Clustering feature recognizes Sanbolic volumes as active-active storage resources, simplifying the configuration of Windows Server 2008 R2 failover clusters. Sanbolic's Melio Enterprise and Data Center product suites can also be used with Windows application servers running on physical and/or virtual servers. Typical deployments include active-active SQL server clusters and SQL server consolidation, as well as shared-data scale out clusters of Windows file servers or web servers.

"With this announcement, customers will benefit from a shared storage solution compatible with any heterogeneous Hyper-V environment comprising Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2," said Dai Vu, director, virtualization solutions marketing, Server and Tools Business at Microsoft Corp. "Sanbolic's Melio cluster files complements Hyper-V in delivering enterprise virtualization solutions, and bringing new functionality to key Windows workloads, such as SQL Server and file serving."

Sanbolic software currently supports Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2. Sanbolic distributes its product solutions worldwide through a network of distributors, OEMs, VARs and system integrators. Sanbolic is exhibiting in the Microsoft System Center Pavilion at Tech Ed Berlin, November 9-13.

About Sanbolic, Inc.

Sanbolic, Inc is a Watertown, Massachusetts-based company that provides software for simplifying and sharing SAN storage. Sanbolic's product extends the capability of Windows applications by allowing SAN storage to be easily administered, expanded and reassigned, while supporting shared data access to improve application availability and/or application scalability. Further information about Sanbolic can be found on its website www.sanbolic.com.

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