Sanbolic Announces New Support for Large Enterprise Storage Environments.

Melio Clustered File System 2.2 Now Supports GPT Disks, Check Disk, and Quality of Service Management, and Demonstrates Scalability to Clusters of 64 Servers

WATERTOWN, Mass. -- Sanbolic, Inc., a leading developer of software to simplify and share storage area networks (SANs), today announced important new functionality for Melio Clustered File System 2.2 (Melio FS 2.2), which is designed for large shared SAN storage environments.

Melio FS 2.2 now supports GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks, which were introduced with Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 to enable very large storage disks with large numbers of partitions. Sanbolic's Melio FS 2.2 and LaScala volume manager can support as much as 18 million terabytes in a single file system. Sanbolic has also added check disk functionality to its Melio FS 2.2, providing an efficient tool for maintaining file system integrity in very large storage environments. Melio's new quality of service feature allows administrators to dynamically assign bandwidth to high performance and critical applications, providing flexibility and the ability to meet even the most demanding peak performance.

Sanbolic's Melio FS 2.2 and LaScala volume manager enable end-users to aggregate multiple storage arrays into a centrally managed pool of storage and provide multiple servers concurrent read and write access to data over Fibre Channel or iSCSI connections. Melio FS 2.2 and LaScala are designed for intuitive ease-of-use by Windows administrators and support key Windows data center technologies, including Microsoft clustering services.

"Melio is designed for customers using SAN in Windows data center environments," said Momchil Michailov, a founder of Sanbolic. "These file system additions give administrators tools for creating and effectively managing very large storage environments, while improving the utility and flexibility of storage resources."

One key application for Melio FS 2.2 is large file serving installations using clusters of servers running Windows Storage Server 2003 R2. Sanbolic has demonstrated up to 64 servers clustered into a common file system on a SAN, and larger clusters can be supported. Client systems can access the shared data through any of the servers using Common Internet File System (CIFS) or Network File System (NFS), providing scalability and high-availability. Input/Output (I/O) performance scales linearly as additional storage servers are added to the cluster. Additional servers or storage can be added dynamically while data remains accessible.

"Sanbolic's products integrate well with Microsoft's Windows Server technology and add important functionality for applications such as creating very large file serving environments and dynamically migrating Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 across physical hosts," said Dr. Claude Lorenson, group product manager, Storage Technologies at Microsoft Corp. "We are very pleased to see that Sanbolic continues to enhance the functionality of its clustered file system technology and systematically supports new Microsoft Windows platform components."

Sanbolic software currently supports Microsoft Windows Server 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Microsoft Windows Server 2003, including Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2. Sanbolic distributes its product solutions worldwide through a network of distributors, original equipment manufacturers, value-added resellers and system integrators.

Sanbolic will show its products at Storage Decisions in New York in the Microsoft Pavilion, Booth 900D, September 27-29. The demonstration will highlight the use of Melio FS 2.2 to enable dynamic migration of Microsoft Windows Virtual Server 2005 state across physical hosts.

About Sanbolic, Inc.

Sanbolic, Inc is a Watertown, Massachusetts-based company that provides software for sharing and simplifying shared SAN storage environments. Networked storage is one of the fastest growing segments of the information technology market. Sanbolic products address the growing customer need for tools that simplify data storage management, increase system flexibility and enable shared access to information in a reliable, scalable and secure data environment. Further information about Sanbolic can be found on its website www.sanbolic.com.