Common problems encountered by today's SMB customers include additional management overhead, poor resource utilization and increased costs associated with deploying multiple servers (often as many as 40% of their servers) simply for file serving purposes. Using Sanbolic Melio 2010, an IT administrator can consolidate his/her existing file-serving infrastructure significantly (9:1 ratio), freeing up computing and storage resources for other uses. With Melio 2010, customers can design, implement and manage highly efficient, highly available server and storage clusters. Benefits include centralized management and enhanced utilization of server and storage resources, data protection in the form of VSS-based snapshots and the ability to quickly and seamlessly scale out file serving and storage infrastructures, all while achieving optimal performance through the use of block-based storage. |
