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Don’t Let Virtualization Spoil Your SQL Server Environment – Sanbolic to Explain How to Overcome Common SQL Server Virtualization Obstacles

Tue, 08 May 2012 23:04:49 EDT

Sanbolic To Also Demonstrate How To Achieve A Complete Enterprise-Class VDI Environment In Less Time, With Less Effort, and Lower Upfront Costs At Citrix Synergy 2012 (Booth 711) Wednesday, May 9, 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Eastern Time Sanbolic Webinar: SQL Server Virtualization with Sanbolic Melio Virtualization provides a tool for consolidating SQL Server environments, [...]

Sanbolic Marks Another Record Quarter — Enjoys 110% Increase in Sales (VDI-Strategy Magazine, 4/24/2012)

Fri, 04 May 2012 03:19:52 EDT

"State University of New York, Upstate Medical University(SUNY Upstate) depends on Sanbolic Melio to provide high availability for its Citrix PVS server, EMC storage based enterprise compute environment. "By decoupling the data management respons

Sanbolic to Add Integration with System Center 2012 to Provide Distributed Data Management in Private Clouds (ThomasNet News, 4/17/2012)

Fri, 04 May 2012 03:19:50 EDT

"Melio Enterprise Supports System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager, and Will Provide a System Center Operations Manager Management Pack, PowerShell Commandlets, and a System Center Orchestrator Integration Pack" (Read article.)

Scalable NAS Buying Guide (InfoStor, 4/25/2012)

Fri, 04 May 2012 03:19:47 EDT

"There is no shortage of options in the scale-out NAS marketplace. Therefore, when considering scale-out NAS, it is critical to define what you are looking for. Gridstore, Sanbolic and Nexenta are pushing the envelope on scale-out NAS to deliver uniq

Sanbolic Products Now Support System Center 2012 (TMCnet infoTECH Spotlight, 4/19/2012)

Fri, 04 May 2012 03:19:44 EDT

"Sanbolic, a maker of software to manage storage solutions under Microsoft (News - Alert)System Center, has announced the availability of updated versions that now support System Center 2012. Its Virtual Manager solution is available today, whi

Sanbolic is adding integration with System Center 2012 to Provide Distributed Data Management in Private Clouds (Ervik.as, 4/24/2012)

Fri, 04 May 2012 03:19:39 EDT

"Sanbolic, a market leader in distributed data management, today announced support for System Center 2012. System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager is available today, and System Center Operations Manager and System Center Orchestrator support will

Scalable NAS Buying Guide

Fri, 04 May 2012 03:19:00 EDT

"ShareCenter is a new Melio Enterprise software file serving module from Sanbolic aimed at Windows Server environments. It is designed for large enterprise virtual and cloud environments. It enables them to consolidate file serving workloads onto c

110% Increase in North American Sales for Sanbolic

Fri, 04 May 2012 03:19:00 EDT

"VDI deployments can impose a tremendous strain on storage infrastructures. Frequently in fact, VDI installs are derailed by unexpected storage cost, complexity and performance degradation," said Rich Brumpton, director, National Virtualization Practice, MTM Technologies, Inc., national provider of IT solutions and services including virtualization, unified communications and managed services. “We eliminate this challenge for our customers,

Sanbolic Marks Another Record Quarter – Enjoys 110% Increase in Sales

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:10:27 EDT

Strategic Partner MTM Technologies Seeing Huge Uptick in Demand for Sanbolic Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Solutions Waltham, MA – (April 24, 2012) – Sanbolic®, the market leader in distributed data management, today announced that Q1 2012 marked yet another record quarter for the company, with a 110% increase in North American sales over Q1 2011. [...]

Sanbolic Integrates System Center 2012 with Melio Platform (TalkinCloud, 4/13/2012)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:10:22 EDT

"Distributed data management firm Sanbolic has announced its support for Microsoft System Center 2012. Sanbolic’s System Center (SC) Virtual Machine Manager is now generally available, and the company plans to release its SC Operations Manager an

Sanbolic adds integration with System Center 2012 to offer distributed data management in private clouds (Computer Technology Review (CTR), 4/18/2012)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:10:18 EDT

"Sanbolic Inc., provider of distributed data management offerings, announced Tuesday support for System Center 2012. System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager is available, and System Center Operations Manager and System Center Orchestrator support

New Products: Tegile Systems, Sanbolic, and Idera (SQL Server Pro, 4/18/2012)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:10:12 EDT

"SANBOLIC ANNOUNCES SHARECENTER FILE SERVING MODULE Sanbolic has announced the availability of ShareCenter, a file serving module that's developed for the company's Melio Enterprise." (Read article.)

Simple Pitch Makes Editor Weep With Joy (scheierassociates.com, 4/9/2012)

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:59:21 EDT

“Well, not quite weep. But simple and straightforward is the best way to explain a product to busy editors and prospects. A recent eight (count ‘em, eight!) slide deck from data management vendor Sanbolic shows how it’s done.” (Read blog.) Tweet This Post

New Products: Check out the latest products from Melissa Data, Wise Coders Solutions, MobiForms, Red Gate, and Sanbolic. (SQL Server Pro, 2/17/2012)

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:10:45 EDT

“SANBOLIC RELEASES APPCLUSTER 2.0 Sanbolic has announced the release of AppCluster 2.0, a SQL Server module that extends workloads across physical, virtualized, and cloud environments. New enhancements include live data migration within physical and virtual environments and the ability to automatically or directly manage distribution of workloads across physical and virtual storage assets. In addition, [...]

NAS Vendors Seek Mid-Market, Target MSPs (MSPmentor, 3/22/2012)

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:10:41 EDT

"Network attached storage (NAS) can pose problems for MSPs with small and mid-sized business customers. MSPs may find themselves stranded between low-end, retail-channel devices in the sub $800 range and, on the other end of the spectrum, half-millio

Products of the week 3.12.12 (Network World, 3/12/2012)

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:10:36 EDT

"Product name - Melio ShareCenter Key features - ShareCenter, designed for large virtual and/or cloud environments, transforms proprietary NAS infrastructures into scalable, highly available and cost effective file serving environments. More info

Sanbolic to Present “How to” on Leveraging Commodity Hardware to Transform Expensive and Complex Windows Server Environments

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:10:25 EDT

Sanbolic to Showcase Award Winning Melio, Distributed Data Management Software Suite, at MMS 2012, Microsoft Management Summit Don’t Miss Sanbolic’s Additional Webinars, Featuring Tips on How to Lower Costs, Increase Availability and Enhance M

Sanbolic Transforms Siloed Windows Servers (StorageNewsletter, 3/14/2012)

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:08:26 EDT

“Sanbolic, Inc., in distributed data management, announced theavailability of ShareCenter, a new Melio Enterprise software file serving module that transforms siloed Windows Server environments into NAS solutions at a fraction of the cost of traditional approaches.” (Read article.) Tweet This Post

Cost and Complexity: Game-stoppers for VDI (Ervic.as, 3/19/2012)

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:08:22 EDT

Two of the biggest impediments surrounding VDI deployments, we know, are cost and complexity… and understandably so, seeing how both can have such a detrimental effect on the overall ROI of VDI. (Read post.)

Strategic Partner Announcement: MCPc Enables Mobile Business With Anyplace Workspace (MarketWatch, 3/19/2012)

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:08:13 EDT

The anyplace workspace initiative is endorsed and backed by technology leaders, including... Sanbolic... (Read press release.)

Time to Consolidate NAS Systems (ITBusinessEdge, 3/6/2012)

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:03:11 EST

“One of the reasons that storage is difficult to manage is that Windows servers don’t scale all that well. As a result, IT organizations wind up investing a lot of money in network attached storage (NAS) systems.” (Read article.) Tweet This Post

No More Read-only LUNs in PVS, Sanbolic Melio Offers Consolidation, Scalability and Performance for PVS (BrianMadden.com, 2/28/2012)

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:03:08 EST

"While browsing the Citrix® Support Forums last week, I came across a posting that was written by a Citrix® customer who had recently upgraded his Provisioning Services™ (PVS™) farm from version 5.6 SP1 to version 6.0 and was disappointed to fi

Sanbolic Consolidates Windows Server Boxes for NAS (Silicon Angle, 3/5/2012)

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:03:03 EST

"Today, Sanbolic is hoping to live up to at least some of the standards set forth by the storage giant with its latest launch. ShareCenter is the latest addition to the company’s Melio Enterprise suite, and is a file serving module that’s desig

Sanbolic Takes File Serving to the Next Level… (Virtual Strategy Magazine, 3/5/2012)

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:03:01 EST

"By eliminating the need for expensive and problematic proprietary hardware and management interfaces, customers can enjoy dramatic capital and operational (CapEx and OpEx) savings." (Read article.)

Sanbolic Consolidates Siloed Windows Servers into Highly Scalable NAS (ESJ.com, 3/5/2012)

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:02:58 EST

"Sanbolic, a distributed data management solutions provider, has released ShareCenter, a new Melio Enterprise software file serving module that transforms siloed Windows Server environments into highly scalable, network-attached storage (NAS) solutio

Sanbolic Takes File Serving to the Next Level… (FierceCIO, 3/5/2012)

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:02:55 EST

"A very high percentage of Windows Server shipments are installed in file serving environments – yet, Windows does not scale. Consequently, silos of Windows Servers have become commonplace in most enterprise IT environments, resulting in extremel

Sanbolic Conjures Scalable NAS from Windows Server (InfoStor, 3/2/2012)

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:02:46 EST

"Michailov says his company is doing for Windows Server-based file serving environments "what VMware did for computer servers." He adds, "The value is in the hypervisor, the server is sheet metal." For Windows Server, that sheet metal typically takes

Best Practices for Addressing SQL Server Sprawl

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:15:00 EST

Will Explain How to Decouple SQL Server from Rigid Server and Storage Binding, While Lowering Management Cost and Complexity Don’t Miss Sanbolic’s Additional Live Webinars in March on: “Extending the Benefits of Virtualization to Local Storage for Private Cloud Deployments” and “Citrix PVS 6.0 and Sanbolic Melio 4 – A Winning Combination!” Wednesday, March 7, [...]

Sanbolic Takes File Serving to the Next Level – Transforms Siloed Windows Servers into Scalable, Highly Available and Cost Effective File Serving Environments

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:16:00 EST

Designed For Large Virtual and Cloud Environments, ShareCenter Seamlessly Consolidates File Serving Workloads onto Commodity Hardware, Eliminates Single Points of Failure and Centralizes Provisioning, Management and Quality of Service (QoS) Waltham, MA – (March 5, 2012) – Sanbolic®, the market leader in distributed data management, today announced the general availability of ShareCenter™, a new Melio™ [...]

Sanbolic Transforms Siloed Windows Servers

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 01:03:00 EST

"Designed for large enterprise virtual and cloud environments, ShareCenter enables customers to seamlessly consolidate file serving workloads onto commodity hardware, as well as centralize provisioning, management and quality of service (QoS) capabil

Sanbolic Melio ShareCenter Software File-Serving Module Now Available

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 01:02:00 EST

"ShareCenter is designed for large enterprise virtual and cloud environments enabling customers to seamlessly consolidate file-serving workloads onto commodity hardware. Additionally, it centralizes provisioning, management, and quality of service (Q

Sanbolic Takes Home Silver in Prestigious SearchStorage.com and Storage Magazine, 2011 Products of the Year Awards

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:06:28 EST

Sanbolic Melio v3.5, Distributed Data Management Solution, Singled Out as One of the Best Data Storage Products of 2011 Watertown, MA – (February 16, 2012) – Sanbolic®, the market leader in distributed data management, today announced that its Melio v3.5 software has been named the Storage System Software category Silver Winner in the prestigious SearchStorage.com [...]

Sanbolic Inc. Melio V3.5 (SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine, 2/10/2012)

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:13:55 EST

“Sanbolic Melio V3.5 is the storage system software category silver winner in Storagemagazine’s/SearchStorage.com’s 2011 Products of the Year competition. Read our 2011 guide to the best data storage products to review all the winners.” (Read article.) Tweet This Post

Best data storage products 2011 (SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine, 2/10/2012)

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:13:52 EST

"The 2011 Products of the Year recognizes the best storage products in the categories of backup and DR software/services, backup hardware, networking, storage management tools, storage systems and storage system software." (Read article.)

Best Practices for Building a Private Cloud

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:08:00 EST

Will Also Discuss How to Extend the Benefits of Server Virtualization to the Storage Layer and In Doing So Lower Costs, Improve Availability and Simplify Management Wednesday, February 8, 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Eastern Time Sanbolic Webinar: Building a Private Cloud with Microsoft® Hyper-V™ and Sanbolic Melio For customers building a Microsoft-based private cloud [...]

Q4 2011 Marks Completion of Record Year for Sanbolic

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:05:42 EST

2011 Overall Sales 50% Greater than 2010, Sales Grow in North America by 54%, EMEA by 59%, with the Average Deal Size Growing 54% and Services Revenues Growing by 54% David Morrison, Founding Partner of Lee Equity Partners, Joins Sanbolic Board of Directors (BOD) Watertown, MA – (January 31, 2012) – Sanbolic®, the market leader [...]

Sanbolic Melio Version 3.5 Named Finalist for 2011 Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com Products of the Year Award

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:09:12 EST

Distributed Data Management Solution Named Finalist for its Integration of Complex Storage Concepts into Workload and Storage Agnostic Offering – Customers Benefit From Increased Levels of Infrastructure Flexibility and Responsiveness, While Minimizing Cost and Complexity Watertown, MA – (January 24, 2012) – Sanbolic®, the market leader in distributed data management, today announced that its Melio [...]

Storage system software: 2011 Products of the Year finalists (Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com, 1/19/2012)

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:05:05 EST

Sanbolic Inc. Melio v3.5 Sanbolic’s Melio v3.5 suite integrates a clustered file system, volume management, resource provisioning and quality of service into a workload-, hypervisor- and hardware-agnostic data management platform. New features include extended hypervisor support, local server storage sharing, synchronous and asynchronous mirroring and replication, and increased scalability. (Read article.) Tweet This Post

Sanbolic to Discuss the Advantages of Deploying XenApp and XenDesktop with PVS 6.0 and Melio 4 (BrianMadden.com, 1/10/2012)

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:07:57 EST

“Interested in learning about the benefits of deploying XenApp and XenDesktop with PVS 6.0 and Sanbolic Melio 4? Sanbolic is hosting their first webinar of the new year tomorrow morning (Jan. 11th) at 11:00AM EST. / 8:00AM PST. The webinar, titled “Citrix Read More…” (Read article.) Tweet This Post

2012: IT Executives and the Channel Will Demand Non-Proprietary, Comprehensive Storage Virtualization Solutions (VMblog, 1/10/2012)

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:07:55 EST

"By leveraging solutions that provide these capabilities, customers can embark upon an efficient and effective storage virtualization initiative, which among other things, can truly mark the beginning of a highly productive, and potentially profitab

How Organizations Around the World Deployed XenDesktop with Ease in 2011 using Sanbolic Melio (BrianMadden.com, 1/4/2012)

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:07:52 EST

"Happy New Year Everyone! For my first post of the new year, I wanted to provide a brief synopsis of what Citrix XenDesktop customers were able to achieve in 2011 using Sanbolic’s Melio Distributed Data Management software. Hundreds of Citrix custo

Sanbolic to Discuss How to Achieve Maximum ROI on Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp Deployments

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:07:49 EST

Will Also Review How to Maximize SQL Server Consolidation Efforts In Order To Dramatically Reduce Overall Cost and Management Complexity Wednesday, January 11: 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Eastern Time Sanbolic Webinar: Citrix PVS 6.0 and Sanbolic™

2012: Veni, Vidi, VDI (Network Computing, 12/30/2011)

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:03:38 EST

“Analyst Marc Staimer, president and CDS, Dragon Slayer Consulting, was more terse in his desktop virtualization expectations for 2012. “As far as VDI goes, I would strongly recommend they use something like Atlantis Computing, Sanbolic, or Alacritech.”” (Read article.) Tweet This Post

Sanbolic Chosen to Join Microsoft High Potential (HiPo) ISV Managed Partner Program (VDI Strategy Magazine, 12/12/2011)

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:03:36 EST

"While this announcement certainly serves as an enviable endorsement for Sanbolic, bottom line - it is extremely significant news for the channel," said Eva Helen, Co-Founder, President, and COO, Sanbolic. "Moving forward, channel partners will n

Sanbolic Melio Ingredient in Intel ESAA (StorageNewsletter, 12/21/2011)

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:03:33 EST

"We included Sanbolic's Melio unified data storage management software as a key component in the 'How to Build a Microsoft Cloud Solution' reference architecture because it can enhance application availability, scalability and performance for critica

Sanbolic: AppCluster V2.0 (StorageNewsletter, 11/30/2011)

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:03:31 EST

"Achieving true SQL server consolidation is much more than just virtualized SQL instances. SQL consolidation should also deliver clustering, high availability, and load balancing on top of the newly consolidated footprint," said Laura DuBois, Program

Virtual desktop software aims to help storage VDI performance (SearchVirtualStorage and SearchStorageUK, 12/13/2011)

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:03:29 EST

"Sanbolic Melio VDI is host-based data management software that supports Citrix’s XenDesktop VDI, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere server virtualization platforms. The Melio VDI platform includes several applications." (Read article.)

Sanbolic’s Melio named ‘key ingredient’ in Intel cloud solution guide (SearchCloudStorage, 12/14/2011)

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:03:26 EST

"Sanbolic Inc.'s Melio software platform has been included as a "key ingredient" in the Intel Enabled Solutions Acceleration Alliance (ESAA) "Build a Private Cloud with System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0/Policy-Based Power

Sanbolic Sets Date for Webinar: How to Achieve SQL Server High Availability (HA) for Citrix XenDesktop (TMCnet, 12/7/2011)

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:03:24 EST

"According to a release, Citrix XenDesktop 5.x requires SQL Server for the Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) and XenDesktop databases. If these databases become inaccessible, administrators can't see or manage their PVS Farms and users can't establi

Intel Enabled Solutions Acceleration Alliance Selects Sanbolic Melio (Green Technology World (TMCnet), 12/8/2011)

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:03:22 EST

"Sanbolic, a provider of distributed data management, announced that its Melio software platform is included as an ingredient in the Intel Enabled Solutions Acceleration Alliance Build a Private Cloud with System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-S