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.

 

Hi all,

It’s me again. Last week, I submitted a blog on the Citrix Community blogs site that I wanted you to know about. It describes the value-add Sanbolic Melio2010 brings to Citrix virtual solutions, i.e., enhancing their performance, scalability, manageability and availability. I also included references to several papers that you should find helpful, particularly if you are in the early planning and design phases of deploying Citrix solutions such as XenDesktop and/or XenApp that will be provisioned on-demand via Citrix Provisioning Services.

To visit the blog, click here: http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2010/08/12/Enhancing+Citrix+XenDesktop+and+XenApp+with+Sanbolic+Melio+2010

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Andy

 

Howdy all,

It’s time for another exciting episode of… “What Sanbolic Melio 2010 can do for you!”

And it’s all right here in this white paper – http://www.sanbolic.com/pdfs/HA_Options_for_Citrix_Virtual_Solutions.pdf.

If you’re a distributor, reseller, systems integrator, or current or potential Citrix customer in the planning and design phases of deploying XenDesktop VDI and/or XenApp application delivery solutions, the information found in this paper couldn’t be more timely. This paper describes the storage options most frequently considered by organizations looking to achieve high availability for their virtual desktops and XenApp servers streamed from Provisioning Services. After reading through the paper, it should be fairly obvious that of all the options, only the Sanbolic Melio 2010 option offers organizations high availability for virtual desktops and XenApp servers as well as:

1. Simplified maintenance of vDisks by consolidating all vDisks onto a single volume on SAN storage.

2. Enhanced performance using stripe sets (leveraging multiple storage controllers, caching and addition spindles) to improve the user experience.

3. Quick and seamless scale out for XenDesktop and/or XenApp infrastructures, with little effort and no interruption in user productivity.

4. Enhanced utilization of storage resources, allowing organizations to save money on disk drives.

5. Protection for vDisks using VSS-based snapshots of shared volumes or individual vDisks.

If your interest in Sanbolic Melio 2010 is piqued by the information presented in the white paper and you’d like to see a live demonstration of how Melio 2010 enhances these solutions, please contact us at sales@sanbolic.com and one of our sales representatives would be happy to schedule a demonstration for you.

Cheers,

Andy