archived press 2004
Sanbolic, Inc. and VTEC, Inc. Partner

Watertown, Mass., and Burlington, Vermont, March 30, 2004 – Sanbolic, Inc. developer and manufacturer of software and file system for shared storage solutions, and VTEC, Inc. a leader in providing enterprise business continuity solutions, announce that VTEC will resell Sanbolic’s Melio FS (File System) as part of their SMB and enterprise storage solutions. This program allows both companies to build on their complementary strengths in the combined SAN-NAS, Microsoft Windows computing environment.

“We are starting to see a trend in the SMB and enterprise market towards customers wanting to install and run application configurations and files in a SAN using a single integrated file system whereby multiple servers have more flexible access to data,” said Bob Issenberg, President of VTEC. “Our clients look to us to help them sustain their competitive IT advantages in the marketplace. Sanbolic’s Melio FS brings new levels of flexibility to IT departments by increasing storage utilization and enhancing business applications, and databases availability. The Melio FS technology will give our customers an incredible improvement in their storage ROI.”

VTEC has identified SAN-NAS prospects where prospective users would see a doubling in storage utilization and reduced cost of ownership. Sanbolic's clustered journaling file system, Melio FS, provides customers with a storage solution that significantly reduces management time and expenses while allowing more flexible access to mission critical data. Melio FS provides unlimited scalability, and LAN integration through support of NFS and CIFS. Melio FS is also hardware agnostic supporting Fibre Channel, SCSI and iSCSI protocols.

"Melio FS was designed to dramatically enhance the use of a SAN-NAS environments. We are pleased to partner with a quality VAR such as VTEC who delivers complete solutions and bottom line value to their customers”, said Chris Hurley, VP of Sales at Sanbolic, Inc.

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

About VTEC, Inc.
Incorporated in 1993, VTEC provides complete Information Management Solutions, specializing in Enterprise Data Storage and high availability computing solutions. VTEC partners with leading manufacturers and ISV’s including HP, Marathon, Veritas, and Cisco providing expertise, knowledge, reputation and proven successes in businesses of all sizes throughout the Northeast. For more information visit www.vtecinc.com.

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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