Sanbolic AppCluster, SQL Server Solution Available To Rackspace Customers

Sanbolic, Inc. announced that
its released AppCluster with added public cloud support is available to
customers on the public cloud of Rackspace
Hosting, Inc., the open cloud company.

Sanbolic’s AppCluster with public cloud support will enable
Rackspace customers to create new and/or migrate existing SQL Server clusters
to the Rackspace public cloud. It will reduce the cost and
complexity of managing SQL Server clusters, as well as increase management control, application
agility, availability, scalability, performance, protection and security.

For any organization – regardless of size, the new Sanbolic service enables
them to delegate necessary, yet tedious and non-revenue
generating tasks, in order to re-focus the valuable time and
expertise of their IT organization on activities that directly contribute to
the bottom-line, speed time-to-market and increase competitive advantage.

For young, rapidly growing business organizations, the new service allows them
to access enterprise IT infrastructure,
which was previously beyond their reach from both an operational and capital
expense perspective – thereby helping to level the playing field between their
company and larger more established competitors.

"We provide customers
with enterprise-class hosting services to help them meet and exceed their
business and IT goals. To do so, we must provide them with the most advanced,
innovative and trustworthy solutions, while delivering Fanatical Support,"
said Christopher Rajiah, VP of WW channel sales at Rackspace. "We are excited to collaborate with Sanbolic
to allow them to make the AppCluster solution available to customers. This
effort will enable existing and future SQL Server users to confidently move
this area of their IT infrastructure into the cloud to lower the associated
costs and management burden, while enjoining high availability and on-demand
scalability."

"While increasingly
prevalent, Microsoft SQL Server presents virtually unavoidable problems
including SQL Server sprawl and the associated management complexity, low
resource utilization and escalating increases in expense. Moreover, highly
available SQL Server clusters continue to be painful to configure and
administer – especially from a storage viewpoint," said Momchil
‘Memo’ Michailov, CEO and co-founder, Sanbolic. "By combining the strength of Sanbolic’s
AppCluster with Rackspace’s uncompromising service and support, customers will
have the ability to easily, securely and affordably access a end-to-end
solution for creating and managing highly available SQL Server clusters in the
public cloud."