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Showing posts with label Sanbolic. Show all posts
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Monday, March 18, 2013

Sanbolic gives Melio clustered file system a distributed architecture

Sanbolic Inc. today launched its Melio 5 clustered file system and volume manager software with a new distributed architecture to turn commodity hardware into scale-out storage systems that take advantage of such flash resources as PCI Express cards and solid-state drives.

Melio 5 is host-based distributed software that creates storage nodes on commodity hardware, then clusters the nodes and provides RAID data protection capabilities for high availability. Melio 5 is designed to scale up to 2,048 nodes or 65,000 storage devices.

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Virtual desktop software aims to help storage VDI performance

It’s no secret that implementing a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) can play havoc with storage performance and cost.

Storage system vendors have developed features and entire arrays designed to help solve these problems, but third-party virtual desktop software tools can also help solve problems for organizations planning and implementing a VDI.

Software products designed to boost storage performance or reduce capacity requirements for VDI projects are available in the areas of storage optimization, predeployment analytics, virtual file systems and application management software.

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