Seanodes Exanodes Boosts I/O of Solid State Disk (SSD) for Low-Cost, High-Performance...

Seanodes Exanodes Boosts I/O of Solid State Disk (SSD) for Low-Cost,
High-Performance Storage

Seanodes Shared Internal Storage design enables new markets, applications for
SSD

BOSTON, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Seanodes, the creator and leading developer of
Shared Internal Storage solutions, today announced successful testing of its
award-winning Exanodes(TM) software with Solid State Disk (SSD). Tests showed
how Exanodes maximizes SSD performance and can overcome its known pitfalls
such as inadequate capacity and complexity in networked storage. Combining SSD
and Exanodes in a single solution results in a high-density, high-performance
system suitable for environments and applications where SSDs were inefficient
or unaffordable until now.

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Exanodes' Shared Internal Storage design maximizes the investment in SSD by
aggregating the performance and capacity of all available disks embedded in
Linux-based or ESX application servers, and presenting them as a shared
storage pool accessible by any server in the infrastructure.

SSDs are difficult to aggregate and share between several servers, and their
low capacity restricts their usage to applications with correspondingly low
storage capacity requirements. These technical limitations force users to
deploy them as stranded, standalone storage capacity and restrict their usage
to only a few types of applications that benefit from their potential.

"'Traditional arrays have been designed to work efficiently with spinning
disks and can't give the promise of SSDs in terms of performance and
scalability for example," said Frank Gana, Business Development Director at
Seanodes. "This limits the usage and markets and as a consequence most people
use them as Direct Attached Storage with all the usual known problems that
come with DAS." "Thanks to Exanodes and its innovative design we can aggregate
and use SSDs efficiently, opening new markets and applications to this
technology."

Tests with Exanodes and entry-level SSDs showed outstanding performance. In an
ESX environment of eight servers with one SSD drive per server, IOmeter
benchmark results showed 36,000 I/O per second (random read 4K) for a system
with an overall cost under $20K (including the cost of SSDs and Exanodes VM
Edition).

Exanodes-enabled SSD implementations offer great promise in architectures
requiring high levels of power and performance, such as a Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure (VDI) can achieve unheard-of efficiency and economy.
High-performance computing environments such as bioinformatics, which requires
robust and sophisticated applications to create, index, organize, search, and
analyze data benefit as well.

Users interested in assessing the performance and workload gains of Exanodes
coupled with SSDs may download a free trial version at
http://seanodes.com/request-free-trial.

About Seanodes
The inventors of Shared Internal Storage (SIS), Seanodes is changing the face
of network storage technology. Seanodes' SIS platform Exanodes runs as a
Storage Virtual Appliance and radically alters the economics and possibilities
in data storage and server virtualization. Seanodes, a Gartner 'Cool Vendor,'
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 and backed by
a number of private equity firms. More information can be found at
www.seanodes.com or by calling 866-580-5515.

Seanodes and Exanodes are trademarks of Seanodes. Others may be trademarks or
trade names of their respective owners.

CONTACT AGENCY: CONTACT CLIENT:
Dan Miller Frank Gana
JPR Communications Business Development Director
818-884-8282 +33 141 22 1380
danm@jprcom.com gana@seanodes.com

SOURCE Seanodes

Dan Miller of JPR Communications, +1-818-884-8282, danm@jprcom.com, for
Seanodes; or Frank Gana, Business Development Director of Seanodes, +33 141 22
1380, gana@seanodes.com