Sanbolic

1. Sanbolic Enabling The Always-On Enterprise July 2011

2. About Sanbolic Sanbolic Founded 10 years ago to bring distributed computing concepts to the storage layer Recent Market Development Virtualization and cloud workloads are pushing the market in our direction Why Sanbolic? Unpredictable application requirements are exposing the limitations of current storage topologies Sanbolic Melio Purpose-built to alleviate the data management and performance challenges encountered in increasingly distributed physical and virtual application environments.

3. The Application/Storage Disconnect Private Cloud Virtual Desktop Windows Workloads The Unintended Consequences • Application inflexibility • Inconsistent performance • Inability to scale cost effectively • Multiple single points of failure • Hypervisor lock-in • Security exposures • Inefficient storage utilization • Increased storage capex • Increased storage opex • 86% of server workloads will be virtualized by 2018 • (Gartner 2010) Virtualization Shared Storage “As the deployments of virtualization continue to grow, the storage community must step up to the challenge of delivering storage solutions that address the emerging challenges of virtualized environments.” IDC, August 2010

4. The Storage Mandate • Increased Efficiency • Design architectures that reduce storage footprint, reduce overall cost, and increase resource utilization • Increased Flexibility • Make provisioning, allocation, and reclamation of storage part of the solution • Increased Agility • Build storage products that allow admin to dynamically manage systems for performance and capacity without added complexity • Central Management • Provide tools to report and monitor the whole environment • Granular Data Protection • Deliver data protection solutions that protect VM’s and data and allow for granular recovery of data at the hypervisor and application level • Enhanced QoS • Support QoS at the VM level as well as throttle when VM bursts Source: IDC, August 2010

5. The Sanbolic Approach Sanbolic’s software integrates complex storage concepts into a workload, and storage agnostic offering. The Melio platform augments a customers existing IT infrastructure to enable a more application-aware shared storage architecture. Private Cloud Virtual Desktop Windows Workloads Melio’s Data Management Platform Clustered File System Clustered Volume Mgmt. Resource Provisioning Distributed Data Protection Quality-of-Service Operating System Hypervisor Shared Storage Key Benefits • Enhance and extend existing storage investments • Improved infrastructure flexibility and responsiveness • Centralized data access toimprove utilization and ensure HA • Dynamically provisions volumes, data protection levels, and QoS to ensure consistent application performance and align with user-defined policies • Single management framework to reduce storage related costs and complexity • Multi-hypervisor and Multi-Site support

6. Sanbolic Solution Portfolio

7. 600 Customers Across Verticals & Geos

8. Sanbolic & Windows ApplicationsUnbreakable Apps The Problem • Scaling and protecting mission critical Windows workloads is an ever-increasing burden for enterprises large and small • Conventional server consolidation and high availability solutions are costly and inefficient The Solution • The Melio storage management platform delivers high availability, improved performance, and increased scale for business critical Windows applications including SQL , Sharepoint and file/web serving • Melio’s symmetrical clustered file system and centralized volume manager consolidate server footprint, while improving storage agility and simplifying management Key Enhancements • Embedded Storage quality of service • No SPF via inherent system redundancy • Support for industry leading backup utilities • Create a software-based SAN out of industry standard servers Why customers should care? • Melio hardens the Windows Server platform into a highly available enterprise solution that is centrally managed from a single console • Customers can cost effectively scale-out Windows workloads using industry standard servers and storage

9. Sanbolic & VDIMake virtual desktop a reality without breaking the bank The Problem • Virtual desktop deployments impose tremendous strain on the storage infrastructure • Installations are easily derailed by unexpected storage cost , complexity and performance degradation The Solution • Melio is the critical missing link between the storage infrastructure and a successful VDI implementation • Our USP storage management software enables a complete enterprise-class VDI environment in less time, with less effort, and lower upfront costs than previously possible Key Enhancements • Citrix-Ready certified • Melio works in conjunction with your existing application and storage infrastructure • Hypervisor agnostic • No legacy SAN, No Problem…create a software-based SAN from your existing industry standard servers Why customers should care? • Achieving a legitimate ROI on your virtual desktop investment requires flexible, scalable and cost effective shared storage • Get VDI from PoC into production, withstand boot storms, increase availability and  minimize per-seat storage costs

10. Sanbolic & Hyper-VEnabling an enterprise-ready private cloud in 30 minutes The Problem • To achieve true cloud agility, distributed computing needs dynamically scalable, service-aware, distributed storage • To achieve true cloud economics, customers can’t rely on proprietary storage architectures The Solution • Melio + Hyper-V = A simple, scalable and highly available cloud file system, optimized for geographically distributed environments • Melio dynamically provisions enterprise storage services to physical, virtual and cloud workloads spanning datacenter and desktop environments Key Enhancements • Purpose-built with native Windows integration • Full integration with Hyper-V, SCVMM, SCOM, Deployment Services, DPM & MSCS • Critical Hyper-V extensions including QoS, HA, live migration and centralized management • Tight Active Directory integration Why customers should care? • The solution is a more scalable, reliable , flexible and QoS-aware alternative to VMFS • Powerful abstraction layer alleviates dependence on expensive and complex SAN • Application-to-disk awareness enables unparalleled app agility and responsiveness • Experience 2x improvements in server and storage utilization

11. Sanbolic Virtual Storage Virtual storage creates a cost-effective shared storage architecture by aggregating under-utilized disk capacity across servers into shared storage volumes Key Features • Block-based access to shared storage pool • Centralized management • Seamless capacity additions • Server, HDD & hypervisor agnostic • Support for Live Migrations • VSS integration for reliable backup & recovery Key Benefits • SAN benefits without SAN costs • Eliminate LUN management complexity • Simple installation and deployment • Invisible to end client experience • Increased utilization of stranded server HDD’s