Cloud Silos?
By: Momchil Michailov
Silos, or portions of IT infrastructures or applications that exist on their own, have long been a headache for IT professionals as separate management, back up and maintenance tasks are often necessary to support each silo due to their lack of integration with the rest of the IT process. Deploying a new server and/or application is relatively easy (just like it is to add new VMs) and before you know it, your datacenter is inefficient, expensive and extremely difficult to manage. These are the difficulties virtualization promised to address and now, so too does the “cloud.”
What users don’t quite understand is that the cloud provides an excellent platform for better utilization, application integration and data sharing. But unless it is planned well, it could end up being just as complex as your standard datacenter – with lots of individual silos.
One of the big issues we often hear from customers is that they have to pay a lot of maintenance fees to keep their applications and silos alive under the presumption “why fix something that is not broken?”, as well as the current need to move to a proprietary cloud platform and port their applications.
The reality is… customers could realize significant cost savings by utilizing cloud infrastructures, while reducing management costs by optimizing their applications to take advantage of the liquid cloud platform vs. the silos they have today.
Sanbolic offers organizations the ability to create highly scalable, highly available public/private cloud infrastructures build on Microsoft Windows Server platforms. This allows customers to take their existing applications such as SQL, SharePoint, Web serving, File Serving, and VDI, and optimize their IT operations, integrations and data sharing by moving them to the cloud using their native OS.
You are a user of SQL and love it but as you’re scaling out your encounter performance issues and perhaps management cost increases.
You wish the solution had even more “enterprise like features” so you could consolidate and dynamically migrate databases.
Maybe you are wishing to run all of your 48 or more SQL servers in the same cluster, and expand the storage volume on-the-fly without downtime.
Did you know that you can do this with Melio?
Did you know that we also create an environment where you can load-balance, apply QoS for a specific database, and back up it up independently?
Stay with the environment you are familiar with, utilize you servers fully (as they are all active), get better utilization of your storage, and create much more flexibility in your SQL environment.
Scale out without limitations and without operation interruption, and avoid additional management cost!
Download your evaluation copy of Melio (which includes AppCluster) today to Upgrade your Enterprise SQL Environment
Where Will You Go Now?
By: Eva Helen
Dear Polyserve/HP StorageWork EFS Clustered Gateway User,
Did you know that when HP dropped Transoft (9 or more years ago) we had a product that was similar to Transoft’s volume sharing software, and I called HP and asked what they were doing with the Transoft customers. I never got a straight answer. I asked them for the Transoft customer list so that we might be able to offer them an upgrade. They had ‘lost’ the list. Over time some of these customers did come to us.
Now history is repeating itself, as history does. HP’s acquisition of Polyserve some 3 years ago brought more customers our way as the awareness of need for clustered file system for scalable file serving went up. Polyserve started their development of their clustered file system for Linux at about the same time as we started ours for Windows. Eventually they ported to Windows to address needs in scalable file serving and SQL environments.
Now this offering is no longer (according to customer sources) available from HP and once again their customers have nowhere to go. We will offer them an upgrade – in every sense! Polyserve’s technology was slightly different than ours, but a good clustered file system (especially for Linux), but because it was ported from Linux to Windows it was never as seamlessly integrated into Windows technology as Melio is. Melio was built from the ground up for Windows and we use all native Microsoft tools and familiar interfaces.
All file serving and SQL customers that are using or were considering Polyserve, we welcome you to download Melio and see for yourself where the strength in our product lies:
• support for hundreds of nodes in the same cluster (Melio first to do)
• decouple databases and instances (Melio first to do)
• create one volume for all databases
• provide quality of serve at the database level (Melio first to do)
• cluster SQL databases for high availability
• automatically migrate SQL Databases between instances
• scale out servers or storage on-the-fly
• use physical or virtual servers
• faster failover times for minimum downtime
• snapshots and mirroring can create read only volumes for reporting (Melio first to do)
And best of all – Melio is shipping 