Exanodes™ Exanodes VM Edition is among those contending for top storage management software prize of annual Storage magazine, SearchStorage.com competition
Boston, Jan. 30, 2009 – Seanodes, the creator and leading developer of Shared Internal Storage solutions, has been recognized as a finalist for the 2008 Storage Products of the Year award in the storage management software category of the annual industry competition presented by the editors of TechTarget’s Storage and SearchStorage.com. Winners will be announced later in February.
The company’s Exanodes – VM Edition was deemed worthy of consideration for the year’s best products based on criteria that included its innovation, performance, ease of integration, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value. Gold, silver and bronze winners will be determined by the TechTarget Storage Media Group editorial staff, users, industry experts, analysts and consultants.
“We are very pleased to learn that we are among the finalists contending for this prestigious industry award and are appreciative to the selection committee for understanding the innovation and value that Exanodes brings to customers worldwide,” said Frank Gana, Business Development Director at Seanodes. “Exanodes – VM Edition is an ideal example of how we provide dramatically improved economics of networked storage to organizations of all sizes through our groundbreaking Shared Internal Storage technology. We’ve already received great amounts of praise for our solution from the industry and customers alike this year but can’t help but anticipate even more recognition by being named as one of the Storage Products of the Year by TechTarget.”
Exanodes - VM Edition redefines simplicity with installation, configuration and deployment measured in minutes rather than days for typical SAN deployments. It requires no target management, no additional hardware, no need for external SAN storage or fabrics and no specific storage competencies. It provides a high level of performance through improved parallelism and full utilization of hardware at the user’s disposal. Exanodes offers highly available reliability through catastrophic fault tolerance that includes self-healing capabilities and less then 40-minutes to rebuild a 1TB disk. The solution is the first to help IT managers redefine the economics of storage avoiding the investment in traditional SANs that are as much as 20 times more expensive.
About Seanodes
The inventors of Shared Internal Storage (SIS), Paris-headquartered Seanodes is changing network storage technology. Seanodes’ SIS platform Exanodes™ radically alters the economics and possibilities in data storage and application processing. Seanodes has earned multiple awards from industry analysts and media for its outstanding technology that virtualizes storage assets to convert unused internal disks and Direct Attached Storage (DAS) into a shared storage array. Founded in 2002, Seanodes is headed by storage industry veterans from two continents and backed by a number of private equity firms. More information can be found at www.seanodes.com or by calling 866-580-5515.
