Sanbolic Announces Enterprise Clustered Storage Solutions.Melio FS 2008 increases performance and availability for large clustered NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular and virtual server solutions and adds support for Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Server 2008 WATERTOWN, Mass. -- Sanbolic, Inc., a leading developer of software to simplify and share SAN storage, today announced Melio 2008 and LaScala 2008, which add several new features to increase performance and availability of enterprise shared clustered storage solutions. These products also support Windows Server See Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, Windows 2000 and Windows NT. 2008, which will release to manufacturing in the first quarter of 2008. Sanbolic's products are designed to support Windows applications which benefit from central administration of a large virtual storage pool accessed by multiple physical or virtual servers, and to provide concurrent shared read and write access to a shared file system from multiple servers. Sanbolic has enhanced the scalability and availability of this storage infrastructure platform by adding support for unlimited LUN sizes and for Basic and GPT GPT glutamic-pyruvic transaminase; see alanine transaminase. GPT abbr. glutamic-pyruvic transaminase GPT glutamic-pyruvic transaminase. disk structures in LaScala Clustered Volume Manager. LaScala's architecture is also chkdsk-ready. Melio Clustered File System A clustered file system is a file system which is simultaneously mounted on multiple servers. There are several approaches to clustering, most of which do not employ a clustered file system. adds support for Multilayer chkdsk, which can run simultaneously on multiple nodes as a background operation. The new release also implements network oplocks and adds support for up to 16 processors per server. The new features enable customers to implement very large, centrally managed, highly available storage environments for both physical and virtual servers. Performance in applications like clustered NAS using Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 scales linearly as additional servers are added to the storage cluster. An eight-node cluster of the Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 platform has demonstrated 200,000 IOPS/second. Up to 64 nodes in a cluster have been demonstrated, and the company expects the products to scale to at least 256 nodes in a single cluster. The new releases also improve support for Microsoft Virtual Server A virtual machine environment for Windows servers from Microsoft that supports most x86 operating systems as guests. It is used to run multiple copies of Windows as well as Linux in a virtualized server environment. For virtualizing a user's PC, Microsoft offers Virtual PC. See virtual machine. 2005 R2 and VMware Server VMware Server (formerly GSX Server) is an entry-level server virtualization software suite from VMware, Inc., a subsidiary of EMC Corporation. VMware released version 1.0 of Server on July 12, 2006. Server is a continuation of the retired GSX Server product line. solutions. "Our customers are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. efficiency and scale as they adopt distributed storage Storing data in multiple computers or in computers that are geographically dispersed. This was an early term for storage that evolved into SANs and storage virtualization. See SAN and storage virtualization. infrastructure." said Bala Kasiviswanathan, Director, Storage Solutions Marketing, Microsoft Corp. "Sanbolic support of the Windows platform with its Melio 2008 Clustered File System and the LaScala 2008 Volume Manager will help our customers achieve this goal." Sanbolic software currently supports Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows Server 2008 Beta 3. Sanbolic distributes its product solutions worldwide through a network of distributors, OEMs, VARs and system integrators. Sanbolic will be exhibiting this solution at the Microsoft Partner Pavilion at Storage Networking World Storage Networking World (commonly called SNW) is a for data storage professionals in the United States. Sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, SNW is held twice each year. in Dallas October 15-18. 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. All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners |
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