Citrix Melio provides unified management and scale-out of hybrid storage to enable critical workloads such as virtualization, VDI, databases and file and web-servers to be dynamically distributed, spanning shared pools of physical, virtual and cloud servers and storage.

Melio 6 is the enterprise storage and data virtualization software platform for high availability and scale-out of XenDesktop and XenApp. With the launch of Melio 6, we are extending our position as industry leaders of business mobility and introducing business continuity at the data and storage layer. Melio 6 will let customers improve the economics and elasticity of their existing server and storage infrastructure, creating the perfect converged or hyper-converged IT environment.

Melio 6 will be offered to the Citrix customers looking for desktop and app solutions to reduced image management, high availability of PVS/MCS, databases and user profiles. Melio 6 will also be available to customers with more than one location for geo-distribution of data and those moving toward hyper-converged infrastructure.

Melio 6 is a major upgrade. It includes a new Citrix user interface and optimized performance and scalability for hyper-converged architectures. The Enterprise edition includes the new patent-pending, storage protocol ISA—Citrix’s Independent Storage Architecture.

Melio ISA identifies storage resources on all Melio-powered servers on the network and aggregates them into a common storage pool, which is then shared by all servers providing the high availability customers expect. This means no more dependency on external storage or expensive and proprietary connectivity. Through ISA, customers get true storage economics, equivalent to the cost savings and ease of use provided by cloud vendors.

Citrix Melio will continue to work well for any SAN/DAS and hybrid storage environments. Customers will get high availability for PVS/MCS, SQL and file servers and, by activating Melio’s enterprise features, they can provide the application services their business users need. It also allows customers to set up multi-site environments for geo-distributed data or disaster recovery (DR), providing availability and guaranteed and accelerated access to applications and data.

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