eWeek Names Seanodes a Storage "Disrupter"

Seanodes has been included in eWeek’s “10
Disruptive New Storage Technologies Promise Big Changes”
article that appeared on the publication’s
website December 7^th for its “ground-breaking”
storage software that enables organizations to make underutilized
internal application server storage available for the first time as a
virtualized storage pool.

Senior writer Chris Preimesberger looked at “technologies
that have emerged recently to set the industry on its ear”
and highlighted Seanodes as a disrupter of “virtually
all conventional storage companies that want to sell you arrays or
storage servers.” The company’s
Exanodes software reclaims unused storage
capacity in application servers and puts it to work in a company’s
production process.

“With the launch of our Exanodes software
solution, we have created a whole new category of storage –
Shared Internal Storage,” said Jacques
Baldinger, Seanodes CEO. “By dramatically
reducing management costs, minimizing the need for additional external
network storage arrays, saving data center floor space and reducing
power consumption, we truly have created a disruptive technology that
will, as eWeek said, ‘set the industry on its
ear.’ We are appreciative of the recognition
of this fact by such a well-respected publication.”

The Shared Internal Storage-enabled Exanodes software is poised to
transform network storage with new standards for affordability,
simplicity, reliability and performance at levels that are unprecedented
in the commoditized server marketplace. Exanodes takes maximum advantage
of the parallelism of the infrastructure by allowing a sustained read or
write performance of several gigabytes per second at a fraction of the
cost of a traditional high-end NAS storage device giving an ultra-high
performance without the addition of any dedicated storage hardware. The
extreme scalability of the Exanodes platform dramatically simplifies
enterprise storage management by enabling massive numbers of internal
disks to be managed as a single shared storage pool. Exanodes supports
ultra-fast RAID rebuilds by intelligently distributing the RAID set
across multiple network nodes so that 1TB of data can be rebuilt in
under an hour, minimizing the risks of a second disk failure during the
rebuild window. A similar rebuild with conventional disk arrays can take
days.

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