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Sanbolic Announces LaScala™ Disto - Allows Users to Manage SAN Storage Remotely

Watertown, MA., October 12, 2005 – Sanbolic, a developer of advanced clustered file system and volume management software for networked storage, today announced LaScala Disto. Sanbolic adds LaScala Disto to its product line of clustered shared volume management software and file system for shared storage solutions.

LaScala Disto is an add-on component to LaScala Volume Manager. It enables customers to remotely manage the volume structure for their entire SAN. It also provides volume and mount point scalability on top of existing LUNs, and support for Windows Volume Management (LDM) volumes.

LaScala Disto can be installed remotely on a laptop or server accessing the SAN through an Ethernet network or VPN, or locally on any server on the SAN. Administrators can use LaScala Disto to log into any domain or workgroup on the network, and then manage both volume structure and server access profiles to the storage for all servers connected to the SAN. Administrators use an intuitive WMI-based graphical interface to manage volumes.

LaScala Disto supports and manages all standard LaScala volume management functionality for SAN volumes. Volumes, volume sets, or stripe sets can be created, striped across multiple storage devices to create a single storage pool, and expanded on the fly with no IO interruption. Because LaScala was designed as a SAN volume manager, it can efficiently aggregate the storage and bandwidth of multiple controllers, and create host-mountable volumes from a virtual LUN. LaScala Disto brings simplicity and user friendliness to the SAN management by allowing users to provision volumes and assign them to user accounts on the fly using native Windows security (ACL). LaScala maintains consistent drive letter assignment across the SAN, and supports both NTFS and Sanbolic’s Melio clustered file system. The interface is intuitive to any Administrator familiar with Windows, thus minimizing the learning curve.

Additional new features in LaScala Disto includes support for volume and mount point scalability on top of existing LUN’s. It also supports management of Windows Volume Management (LDM) volumes so users can use a single user interface and volume manager to manage their SAN attached-, direct attached-, and local storage. Users can utilize LaScala Disto to configure volumes for shared data application which use a clustered file system such as Melio, as well as to manage their uniquely assigned non-shared application volumes for Exchange, SQL and other single instance applications. In addition, LaScala Volume Manager and LaScala Disto support FC, iSCSI and SCSI connectivity, so that users can flexibly match connectivity with cost and performance requirements.

LaScala Disto will be sold through selected distributors and system integrators worldwide.

About LaScala Volume Manager
LaScala is a host-based volume manager that simplifies management and improves flexibility and reliability of shared storage environments. Multiple hosts can simultaneously share access to and administer storage volumes, and volumes can span multiple storage controllers. LaScala permits centralized administration of per volume groups based on native administration rights. Assignment of host access to specific shared volumes is easily accomplished with native security tools. The volume manager can apply multiple changes in volume structure simultaneously, such as online volume creation, deletion, parameter modification, resizing by adding additional storage, or adding new hosts to a volume group.

About Sanbolic, Inc.
Sanbolic, Inc. is a privately held company located in Watertown, Massachusetts. Sanbolic’s products address the growing customer need for tools that simplify data storage management, increase system flexibility, and enable high bandwidth shared access to data. The product offerings are Melio FS, an advanced symmetrical cluster file system and LaScala, a symmetrical cluster volume manager. Sanbolic distributes its products worldwide through a network of distributors, OEMs, VARs and system integrators. Further information about Sanbolic can be found on its website www.sanbolic.com.

Sanbolic, LaScala, 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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