archived press 2003
Sanbolic Powering HP Rich Media System
Melio FS used for Rich Media SAN at ENSA@Works Conference

Amsterdam, the Netherlands January 21, 2003 - Sanbolic, Inc. developer and manufacturer of clustered, distributed file system for shared storage solutions is powering the rich media demo at HP's ENSA@Works Conference in Amsterdam this week.

The HP Rich Media division is specialized in the design of solutions for the Media industry. Their demo during the event will show high resolution live video encoding, video editing and concurrent playback, on systems simultaneously sharing a common storage volume.

Underlying hardware is HP's EVA storage and EVO HP Workstations, and the applications for encoding, editing and playback applications are a mix of products such as Pinnacle Liquid, and Windows Media encoder.

To allow concurrent access of the video files on a single volume, HP evaluated file systems that embed lock management.

"We selected Melio FS because of its distributed lock management mechanism that has shown good performance when we tested it with our stress tools and analyzers, reproducing the behavior of editing stations accessing concurrently the same shared video files. The file system is one of the critical components when designing a solution for video industries; the strongest requirements from this industry are reliability, scalability in capacity with no limit in file size, scalability in bandwidth, capability to afford several systems accessing concurrently a video file and no compromise regarding the throughput accuracy. Melio FS is a very promising file system for this industry; this is why we have setup a demo with encoding editing and playback to show some of its capabilities during ENSA@WORK, our worldwide storage event," says Olivier Brun, Consultant Media Industry at HP.

Melio FS is a highly scalable, shared journaling file system that will provide heterogeneous operating system support. Melio FS will not only be used in shared or clustered workgroup environments, where performance and simultaneous access to data is a requirement of the workflow process, but also in storage administration and scalable NAS environments where management and scalability are of importance, and in intense grid-computing applications handling heavy transactions, where reliability and capacity are the main priorities.

Following the show HP Rich Media is planning to run a permanent demo of Melio FS on their proof of solution platform located in the European competence centers in Annecy and Grenoble. These two competence centers are the only ones existing inside HP at worldwide level for the Media industry, and where all their customers and partners in the Media industry come for workshops, proof of concepts, benchmarks, and solution design.

About Sanbolic
Sanbolic, Inc. is a privately held company incorporated in 2000 and located in Watertown, Massachusetts. Sanbolic, Inc. provides the market with software and file system for access and management of shared data. The product offerings are Kayo, volume-sharing software, and Melio FS, a shared file system. For more information on Sanbolic please visit www.sanbolic.com.

About HP
HP is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and businesses. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. HP completed its merger transaction involving Compaq Computer Corporation on May 3, 2002. More information about HP is available at www.hp.com.

Copyright © 2003 by Sanbolic. Sanbolic, Kayo and Melio FS are registered trademarks of Sanbolic, Inc. All other company and product names contained herein are trademarks of the respective holders.

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