Ikomm Deploys Sanbolic Melio VDI Software

Sanbolic
Inc. announced that Ikomm AS,
an application services provider, has deployed its Melio
VDI software solution in order to streamline management, protect
and extend the capabilities of its virtual desktop environment.

With this solution, the company has
eliminated single point-of-failure, enhanced server and storage
utilization, and can create available and scalable shared storage
that enables and extends the capabilities of Citrix Provisioning
Services.

Operating over 800 applications,
accessed by over 12,000 clients, from more than 310 locations across
Norway and Scandinavia, Ikomm’s on-demand software offerings, or
SaaS, enables its business, government and consumer customers to
plug-into applications that would have previously proven far too
expensive to utilize from a capital and/or operational standpoint.
Its clients have come to depend on Ikomm to ensure access to their
data, from anywhere they have Internet access, as if they were
accessing it from their office (i.e., mail, applications, documents,
desktop, etc.).

Clients trust the company to ensure all
applications and information hosted in the Ikomm data center are
protected and secure, methodologies and professional expertise
delivered from its team of 50 trained and experienced professionals,
each of whom are dedicated to meeting and exceeding customer
expectations. For customers, outdated technology, carbon
footprint/emissions/power management, as well as unforeseen IT
challanges and associated business complications, are a thing of the
past. IT becomes predictable, environmentally friendly and
profitable.

Recently, Ikomm embarked on an endeavor
to find a more efficient and cost effective method for deploying
their XenApp Server farm. Citrix Provisioning Services was chosen to
deploy its 200+ XenApp Servers. This was a service dependent on two
provisioning servers. Ikomm therefore needed true HA. Its first
attempt to meet this goal led them to Microsoft Cluster Server,
however they soon learned that this technology would require them to
map the disk using the network share and this would cause the server
to not cache data in memory. This of course was unacceptable. After a
bit of research and conversations with peers, it turned to Sanbolic’s
Melio VDI management software.

"Traditional storage options
for PVS HA, including replication, would have introduced data and
storage management complexity that would have meant higher cost.
Likewise, file shares would have introduced a single point-of-failure
that would have rendered PVS HA useless should the server hosting the
file share go offline for even a moment," said Kristian
Helseth, senior Konsulent Leveranse & Utvikling, Ikomm. "Sanbolic
Melio has greatly simplified Ikomm’s data and storage management
while ensuring no single point-of-failure, and enhanced resiliency to
ensure desktops and servers are able to maintain uninterrupted access
in the event of a failure."

"With Sanbolic Melio VDI, Ikomm
has been able to create highly available and scalable shared storage
that enables and extends the capabilities of Citrix PVS. Its
administrators can now create, manage, deliver and maintain virtual
disks (vDisks) for HA and load balancing without the challenges
typically introduced by other storage options such as replication,
file shares or proprietary hardware-based file serving appliances,"
said Eva Helen, co-founder, president and COO, Sanbolic. "Moreover,
additional benefits are enjoyed, such as reliable vDisk protection,
improved desktop and server performance, and dynamic infrastructure
scale to support environments comprised of hundreds of servers and
thousands of desktops."