archived press 2004
Sanbolic Announces LaScala™
LaScala™ Clustered Volume Manager Increases Flexibility and Performance of Shared Storage

Watertown, MA April 5, 2004 – Sanbolic, a developer of advanced clustered file systems for networked storage, today announced LaScala, a clustered transactional volume manager.

Sanbolic adds LaScala to its product line of advanced software and file systems for shared storage solutions. These products serve the needs of large enterprise data centers as well as high performance shared file applications such as high definition video.

LaScala is a host-based volume manager that simplifies management and improves flexibility and reliability of shared storage environments. The new volume manager provides greatly improved disk management capability when used as a stand-alone product with native file systems. 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 OS 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.

LaScala incorporates fault-tolerant symmetrical clustering mechanism based on leased locks, fine-grained distributed opportunistic locking, and Object Oriented transaction management technology. LaScala provides easy-to-use disk management, including online configuration, repair, hardware changes and other maintenance of shared logical volumes. These volumes may be arbitrary combinations of volume sets, stripes, mirrors, RAID 5, etc. The configuration operations are fault tolerant by the use of journaling for all operations.

An initial customer installation has achieved greater than 1 GB/sec throughout to a shared volume from 5 Windows-based nodes. The second release will support concurrent access to shared volumes from hosts running heterogeneous operating systems.

LaScala is available now and will be sold through selected distributors and system integrators worldwide.

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, LaScala, a symmetrical cluster volume manager, and Kayo, volume sharing software. 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.

Copyright © 2004 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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