Data management innovator Sanbolic and storage-as-a-service provider Zadara Storage have entered into a strategic agreement under which they will join together to deliver storage with high availability application clustering via such public cloud providers as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Rackspace Hosting.†
The new Sanbolic and Zadara offering will enable SMBs to leverage Zadara’s Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) service and Sanbolic’s Melio Data Management Software together with the products and services offered by public cloud providers in order to extend the availability, scalability, performance, protection, and management efficiency of SMBs’ business-critical
“Zadara’s innovative VPSA service provides customers with the same capabilities, performance, and availability of on-premise, enterprise SAN/NAS arrays without the necessity of expensive upfront capital or long-term commitment,” says Zadara co-founder and CEO Nelson Nahum. “By combining Zadara storage with Sanbolic data management software, together with the products and services provided by the biggest names in public cloud, customers can now move their business critical applications — such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Windows file-/web-serving, analytics, and VDI — into the public cloud and enjoy unmatched scalability, availability, performance, and ease-of-management at an unbeatable entry price.”
For its part, Sanbolic says the advantage of the partnership is its ability to help SMBs span on-premise data centers and cloud-based infrastructures. “Now, business organizations can easily and confidently ‘plug into’ these benefits when they leverage the combined Sanbolic and Zadara offering,” explains Sanbolic co-founder and CEO Momchil “Memo” Michailov, “and in doing so completely level the playing field and then re-dedicate the valuable expertise of their IT professionals to activities that directly contribute to the bottom-line, speed time-to-market, and increase competitive advantage.”
In related news, Sanbolic recently announced Sanbolic AppCluster for public clouds. AppCluster is a Microsoft SQL Server-specific module within the Melio software. It is designed to extend the agility, high-availability, and scalability of SQL Server workloads across physical, virtualized, and now private and public cloud environments.
“With the addition of public cloud support, customers are now able to further minimize the cost and complexity of managing SQL Server clusters while extending the economics of public cloud to one of the most widely deployed database server and information platforms in the world,” states a Sanbolic press release submitted to Channel Pro-SMB.
