Jun 8

Where Will You Go Now?

By: Eva Helen
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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 :-)