Corporate Overview
Inventor of Shared Internal Storage (SIS), Seanodes is changing the face of network storage technology.
Exanodes - Seanodes SIS platform - runs as a Storage Virtual Appliance and radically alters the economics and possibilities in data storage and server virtualization.
Recognized as a Gartner "Cool Vendor", Seanodes has earned multiple awards from both industry analysts and the media for its outstanding technology that virtualizes storage assets to convert unused internal disks and Direct Attached Storage (DAS) into a shared storage array.
The Exanodes Concept
Exanodes is a unique solution that enables storage virtualization by converting internal disks and Direct Attached Storage (DAS) into a virtual shared storage array.
This solution helps IT managers redefine the economics of storage avoiding the investment in traditional SANs which are between 6 to 10 times more expensive.
This Shared Internal Storage (SIS) is :
- Affordable - because external storage needs (SAN or NAS) are greatly reduced or even eliminated,
- Simple - with a non-intrusive, user friendly, software only solution
- Scalable - by enabling massive numbers of internal disks to be managed as a single shared storage pool,
- Reliable - through fault tolerance mechanisms that include self-healing capabilities,
- High-Performance - by taking maximum advantage of the parallelism of the infrastructure and by allowing a sustained read or write performance of several gigabytes per second.
These features are the result of the implementation of our unique RAIN feature (Redundant Array of Independent Nodes) which adapts the RAID philosophy to nodes architecture.
Exanodes Shared Internal Storage enabled software is set to transform network storage with new standards for affordability, simplicity, scalability, reliability and performance at levels that are unprecedented in the commoditized and virtualized datacenter.
Exanodes VM Edition
Exanodes VM Edition unlocks the storage resources of up to 32 VMware ESX servers, aggregates them and turns them into a reliable, high-performance, highly available iSCSI virtual SAN in minutes.
By doing so it leverages the benefits of the advanced features available in VMware Infrastructure (VMware vMotion, High Availability) without the cost and complexity associated with external storage solutions usually required to do it.
Benefits for Virtual Machine Environments
Exanodes VM Edition redefines simplicity with installation, configuration and deployment measured in minutes rather than days for typical SAN deployments.
It complies with the majority of virtual machines storage needs in supplying shared storage from servers internal disks (VM migration, high availability, dynamic server provisioning).
In allowing the virtualization of physical servers internal hard disks, Exanodes provides the virtualization layer that VM managers lack.
