Sanbolic and LSI Logic announce alliance

Sanbolic and LSI Logic have announced a strategic relationship to produce joint product certification of Sanbolic's Melio FS file system and their Kayo volume sharing software with a complete line of LSI Logic Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs).
The alliance provides a framework for SAN interoperability, performance and scalability enhancements for media-rich applications in clustered environments.
Melio FS is a highly scalable file system that is expected to be initially used in large file applications for shared or clustered environments. In these applications performance and shared access to data is a requirement of the workflow process.
The integration of Sanbolic's Melio FS and the Fusion-MPT (Message Passing Technology) based LSI Logic 2 Gb/s, dual-channel LSI44929O Fibre Channel storage adapter in media-rich applications provides the performance and scalability required to deliver as much as 360MB/s of sustained read and write throughput per system in a cluster.
"Customers with performance driven, media-rich applications are using Melio FS to provide shared access to their data from multiple systems for non-linear editing, video & audio streaming where very high data throughput is mandatory. LSI Logic HBAs provide the additional performance that our customers require," said Chris Hurley, vice president of sales and marketing at Sanbolic.
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