Silver award 2009: Seanodes Inc. Exanodes Virtual Machine Edition Virtual server technology is still wildly popular among IT organizations, but taking advantage of its advanced features requires users to have networked storage. The Exanodes Virtual Machine Edition is an approach to shared storage that doesn't require additional hardware, or an external SAN or fabric. Pricing for Exanodes VM Edition is $1,425 per ESX Server.
SearchStorage.com senior news director Dave Raffo discusses the 2009 winners in the storage management tools category, which encompasses technologies such as storage resource management (SRM) and storage-area network (SAN) management software, performance monitoring, file systems, volume management, virtualization software and security software. Products were judged by a panel of users, analysts, consultants, and Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com editors. Judges rated the products on six criteria: innovation, performance, ease of integration into environment, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value. Last year's big winner in this category was VMware Inc.'s Storage VMotion.
Silver award 2009: Seanodes Inc. Exanodes Virtual Machine Edition
Virtual server technology is still wildly popular among IT organizations, but taking advantage of its advanced features requires users to have networked storage. The Exanodes Virtual Machine Edition is an approach to shared storage that doesn't require additional hardware, or an external SAN or fabric. Pricing for Exanodes VM Edition is $1,425 per ESX Server.
SearchStorage.com's Raffo: The idea of Exanodes is to turn commodity hardware into an iSCSI storage network. So with Virtual Machine Edition, Seanodes is specifically targeting VMware ESX virtual servers. That lets customers take advantage of VMware features, such as VMotion and Consolidated Backup, without having to buy a new storage network. They can turn the servers they have now into a network and use the new storage-friendly features of VMware.
(Bronze award 2009: Bycast Inc. StorageGRID 8)
(Gold award 2009: Akorri Inc. BalancePoint 3.0)
