Seanodes Breakthrough Storage Technology Takes Server Virtualization to the Next Level.Exanodes Software Enables "Inside-Out" SANs to Redefine Verb 1. redefine - give a new or different definition to; "She redefined his duties" define, delimit, delimitate, delineate, specify - determine the essential quality of 2. the Metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. and Economics of Shared Network Storage PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. -- Seanodes today introduced a new and revolutionary storage product that enables organizations to make underutilized internal application server storage available for the first time as a high-performance virtualized storage pool. With an architecture designed for high performance computing and enterprise environments, Seanodes' new software architecture gives IT managers the ability to easily avoid the overwhelming cost and complexities of conventional SAN and NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular network storage architectures. Seanodes' new Exanodes[TM] software transforms the storage components inside commodity application servers into high-end virtualized storage pools, enabling businesses to quickly identify and take advantage of underutilized internal storage capacity. Implementing Exanodes dramatically reduces management costs, minimizes the need for additional external network storage arrays, saving data center floor space and reducing power consumption, opening a whole new category in the Storage space: Shared Internal Storage. "The success of VMware Xen, and Microsoft's Virtual Server has been built by answering a very simple question: Why would I buy a large number of new servers when I already own so much unused processing power in my infrastructure?" said Frank Gana, Director of Business Development at Seanodes. "Exanodes is the exact symmetric: when VMware aggregates, organizes and consolidates CPUs in application servers, Exanodes aggregates, organizes and consolidates storage devices in application servers. With Seanodes' Shared Internal Storage, server virtualization (1) Running applications in separate, isolated partitions within a single server. The "virtual machine" method can run different operating systems simultaneously, whereas the "OS virtualization" method runs applications for only one operating system (see virtual machine and OS is pushed one step ahead to provide full storage infrastructure virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. and full storage infrastructure consolidation." The new Exanodes software leverages the Shared Internal Storage architecture reclaiming storage resources to provide capacity and performance scalability. Shared Internal Storage takes advantage of what IDC calls an "inside-out SAN." Exanodes' Shared Internal Storage architecture creates a self-healing, self-organizing, highly resilient storage infrastructure. Each node can function as both an application and a storage server, eliminating the need and expense of dedicated storage servers, thereby enabling the full infrastructure consolidation. Exanodes will work with any block storage devices, hard disk drives, SSD See solid state disk. , RAID and external DAS and is the only any-to-any connect shared internal storage software on the market today. 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 An overlapping of processing, input/output (I/O) or both. 1. parallelism - parallel processing. 2. (parallel) parallelism - The maximum number of independent subtasks in a given task at a given point in its execution. E.g. 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 (networking) network node - (node) An addressable device attached to a computer network. If the node is a computer it is more often called a "host". 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. "Shared Internal Storage is a true paradigm shift A dramatic change in methodology or practice. It often refers to a major change in thinking and planning, which ultimately changes the way projects are implemented. For example, accessing applications and data from the Web instead of from local servers is a paradigm shift. See paradigm. in network storage technology," said Jacques Baldinger, Seanodes' CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Exanodes shatters the SAN/NAS platform with the affordable, highly scalable, high-performance Shared Internal Storage platform that radically alters the economics and metrics of shared storage. If you have an unlimited budget, IT resources, floor space and no problem with power consumption or concerns with the environment, Exanodes is not for you." "The concept and benefits of an inside-out SAN are pretty obvious once you see them," said Laura Dubois, Program Director, Storage Software at IDC. "All the aggregate formatted capacity is available to all the application computers. No stranded capacity exists and there is no single point of failure, since mirroring across computer systems would be employed. The inside-out SAN architecture helps to validate the converged IT infrastructure model for reduced complexity and lower TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. ." About Seanodes Seanodes was founded in late 2002, the result of several years' research in the IRIT research center in France. Inventor of the Shared Internal Storage concept (SIS), Seanodes broke new ground with the introduction of its first product, Exanodes[TM]. Seanodes has received several awards since its creation (including 1st prize in the "5[c]me Concours Concours or EU concours is a recruitment competition and examination to select staff to all institutions of the European Union. Explanation of Open Competition National de Creation d'Entreprises de Technologies Innovantes," which awards the most promising young innovative French start-up of the year) for its cutting-edge patented technology. For more information: www.seanodes.com. |
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