Seanodes Partners With Daytona Storage

Seanodes has formed a strategic partnership with Daytona Storage, a Detroit, Michigan-area storage solutions provider, to further expand the reach of its award-winning technology that virtualizes storage assets to leverage ESX servers’ internal disks and Direct Attached Storage (DAS) into a virtual iSCSI Clustered SAN.

Daytona Storage provides turnkey enterprise-class virtualization, storage, backup, archival and security solutions, as well as support and training. Founded in 2001, its strength in building complete solutions to solve customer problems, rather than just reselling products and services, led it to select key suppliers like VMware to reduce capital expenditures, improve application availability and system efficiency. With the addition of Exanodes, Daytona Storage can create and provision virtualization appliances for server, desktop and storage virtualization that are reliable, efficient and easy for end users to manage.

"Exanodes opens up the full benefits of server virtualization for our customers now, without investing in expensive storage hardware or mastering advanced software," said Robert Brumwell, President of Daytona Storage. "Seanodes is able to deliver the features and performance we need for high-end enterprise use and its ease of integration in VM environments makes it an excellent choice for an entry-level virtualization solution that is inherently scalable into the future."

In joining Seanodes’ growing network of channel partners, Daytona Storage is able to take advantage of Seanodes’ reseller program for VARs interested in combining Exanodes VM Edition with VMware.

"Daytona Storage has proven that it can successfully sell and deliver innovative turnkey solutions, and we anticipate that they will be an excellent partner as demand for storage virtualization grows," said Frank Gana, Business Development Director at Seanodes. "Their mission to reduce costs and bring maximum value to their clients allows them to capitalize on the current market opportunity for reclaiming bought but unused storage capacity and performance, particularly in the ESX environments in which they specialize."

Exanodes is ideal for small to mid-sized businesses that are transitioning to network storage, high-performance computing, and hosted storage services such as cloud computing that need to maximize capacity, reliability and performance at a lower cost than traditional network storage. Exanodes creates a virtualized storage pool that leverages server-attached storage assets and makes them available as part of a shared, scalable, and resilient storage network and enables companies to maximize the ROI of their current storage technology.