archived press 2001
Sanbolic Announces Kayo v. 1.5 at SAN 2001
Additions to Kayo make it ideal for Enterprise SANs.

San Jose, CA, June 5, 2001 - Sanbolic, a developer of software and solutions for storage area networks, announces Kayo version 1.5 at SAN 2001 in San Jose California. The first version of Kayo, Volume Sharing Software for SANs, which has been shipping since October 2000, has been enhanced and its new features make it an ideal software for enterprise SAN solutions. Sanbolic will be showing the new version of the product at booth #220.

Kayo uses the high-speed protocol, Fibre Channel, for data transfer and TCP/IP over Fibre or Ethernet for command and control only. The automatic refresh (ARF) updates all Kayo users when a change is made to a volume. Kayo is a native NTFS solution that allows high-speed transfers, typical for the SAN, to take place without risk of data corruption. Version 1.5 supports cluster services and has a masking utility for optimized storage management. It allows automatic transfer of write privileges and point-to-point server-less backup.

The software is completely transparent to the user. The users see the volumes on the SAN as their local disks and work with them in exactly the same way as with local storage. Kayo supports software RAID 0 (striping) as well as single NTFS partitions, and is available for Windows 2000. In addition to providing information on local and managed volumes, volume owner, and volume properties, version 1.5 has disk properties included in the interface and has enhanced icons for writer and reader under "My Computer". It shows the ownership duration and a log of ownership requests.

The product is expected to start shipping during the third quarter of 2001 and will be sold through a channel of SAN integrators and OEM accounts.

About Sanbolic, Inc.
Sanbolic, Inc. located in Watertown, Massachusetts, is a developer of software and solutions for storage networking. The company was established in 2000, and released its first product, Kayo, volume sharing software, in Q4 2000. Kayo is available through SAN integrators and OEMs. Sanbolic's product works with Qlogic, JNI, Emulex, ATTO and Adaptec controllers. Sanbolic, Inc. is a participant in Eurologic's Link Alliance Program.

The following terms are trademarks of Sanbolic, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries: Sanbolic, Kayo, Melio FS. Microsoft, Windows, Windows 2000, Windows XP and the Windows logo are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

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