Seanodes Announced a 200% Increase in BLAST Speed

Seanodes announced a 200 percent
increase in BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) speeds for
organizations in the Bioinformatic field that implement an Exanodes-based
solution, which transforms storage components within computing nodes
into a high-end virtualized storage pool by leveraging under-utilized
internal storage capacity.

One of the most widely used tools in Bioinformatics today, BLAST is an
application that requires powerful processing speeds to keep pace with
ever-growing volumes of data created through its analysis of statistical
probability culled from searching DNA sequences and proteins or
nucleotides. But as processing needs continue to increase in a highly
data-intense field, research organizations are finding it tough to
combat declines in performance with limited technology acquisition
budgets.

Exanodes helps Bioinformatic organizations quickly identify
under-utilized internal storage capacity within their existing
environments by enabling each node to act as both a computing and
storage server, thereby eliminating the need and expense of maintaining
dedicated storage arrays. Because NFS servers become harder to manage as
infrastructures grow and performance speeds are limited, creating
processing bottlenecks, the need for a Shared Internal Storage platform,
like Exanodes, to accelerate application runs with a limited budget is
becoming a necessity for many budget-conscious companies today.

“You would need to spend between 8 to 10 times
more money to reach that kind of acceleration by investing in additional
servers or a high performance storage array,”
said Jacques Baldinger, Seanodes CEO.

“When we compared return-on-investment figures
for Seanodes’ Exanodes versus additional
servers, and the gains realized by the SIS model, we realized that
Exanodes could be a really profitable investment,”
said Christophe Caron, IT Manager of the French National Institute for
Research in Agronomy (INRA) who evaluated the technology. “We’ll
also drastically reduce future purchases of disk storage and servers
dedicated to this application since we will be maximizing storage
resources and making them work for us instead of being limited by them.”

"Organizations requiring improvements in performance, reliability,
simplicity and affordability of their storage infrastructure need only
to look at their current systems and realize that by taking advantage of
under-utilized internal storage capacity, they can reap the rewards of a
highly efficient storage pool with less cost and complexity," said
Baldinger. "With Exanodes, you can make the most of your current
infrastructure by quickly identifying unused capacity and drastically
reducing new investments in servers and storage while turbo-charging
performance and eliminating costly bottlenecks.”

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