Sales Up 66% for Sanbolic

Sanbolic Inc. closed the third quarter of 2011 with record customer adoption – experiencing a 67% increase in average deal size and a total sales increase of 66% over the same time last year.

Contributing significantly to this growth was increasing momentum in Citrix-based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments. Specifically, Sanbolic Melio software VDI sales were up 68% over the same quarter last year, with the average deal size 46% greater.

"Sanbolic has enjoyed record growth across literally every aspect of our business – including enterprise data center, VDI and private cloud customer deployments," said Eva Helén, Co-Founder, President and COO of Sanbolic. "However, the true standout this quarter was VDI. We believe this is due to the fact that Citrix VDI deployments are increasing exponentially, which is exposing the severe limitations of the majority of today’s IT infrastructures to support such an endeavor – especially in terms of storage. In fact, VDI installations are frequently derailed by unexpected storage cost, complexity and/or performance degradation. Sanbolic Melio eliminates these risks, while augmenting the existing storage infrastructure to enable a complete enterprise-class VDI environment in less time, with less effort and at a dramatically lower cost."

"While VDI generates a great deal of industry buzz, the dirty little secret here is the unexpected storage challenges that come with it," said David Hill, Founder and Principal Analyst, Mesabi Group. "Sanbolic’s Melio VDI offering addresses these performance and availability issues without the necessity of expensive capital investments in proprietary hardware."

"The tremendous ROI that Melio delivers has earned it a place within data centers across virtually every industry vertical, around the world," continued Helén. "New Sanbolic Melio VDI customers this quarter include such industry notables as Clifton Gunderson and Michigan State University."