Momchil Michailov

Why SSD and Flash Need More Brains to Reach the Corporate Data Center About 20 years ago, a wave of storage startups began adding intelligence (in the form of hardware and software) to commodity hard disk drives. Technologies such as hardware-base ... (more)

SQL Server Consolidation AND SQL Server Storage Consolidation

Databases are among the most over-provisioned applications in the datacenter; therefore, databases have tremendous consolidation potential. Melio provides capability to consolidate both SQL Servers AND storage, providing improved utilization, high-av ... (more)

From The V-Alliance – “XenDesktop® on Hyper-V™”: From PoC to Production at Enterprise Scale with Sanbolic® Melio™

Hyper-V is becoming an increasingly popular hypervisor, not just for server virtualization, but for desktop virtualization as well. I’ve seen more and more requests for Hyper-V with XenDesktop coming through the channel the last few months and I’ ... (more)

The Need for Software-Defined Data Management Platform

Data center architecture has been evolving rapidly as enterprise compute resources have moved from physical machines to virtualized on-premise machines to hybrid environments which incorporate cloud-based resources. VMware pioneered server virtualization in the enterprise and now describes a vision of the software-defined data center in which compute, network, and storage resources are all abstracted from the physical hardware they run on. Although VMware’s acquisition of Nicira is a step toward this goal, network and storage resources still tend to be tethered to proprietary har... (more)

Sanbolic Melio Provides Storage Live Migration for Hyper-V

Sanbolic announced on Thursday that Melio now includes the ability to dynamically migrate storage volumes between heterogeneous storage arrays without application interruption. The new capability provides customers with the flexibility to match storage resources with changing workload requirements on Windows-based physical or virtual servers, as well as to easily migrate to new storage array hardware. Sanbolic Melio is a flexible, dynamically assignable shared storage platform for physical and virtual Windows-based servers. Melio enables advanced storage management capability us... (more)