eWeek Names Seanodes a Storage 'Disrupter'.Leading IT Publication Lists Company's Exanodes Software Among Technologies That Promise 'Big Changes' to Data Storage Industry BOSTON Boston, town, England Boston, town (1991 pop. 26,495), E central England, on the Witham River. Boston's fame as a port dates from the 13th cent., when it was a Hanseatic port trading wool and wine. Having recovered from a decline in the 18th and 19th cent. -- Seanodes, inventors of a new storage paradigm for commoditized infrastructures, has been included in eWeek's "10 Disruptive disruptive /dis·rup·tive/ (-tiv) 1. bursting apart; rending. 2. causing confusion or disorder. New Storage Technologies Promise Big Changes" article that appeared on the publication's website December 7th for its "ground-breaking" storage software that enables organizations to make underutilized internal application server storage available for the first time as a virtualized storage pool. Senior writer Chris Preimesberger looked at "technologies that have emerged recently to set the industry on its ear" and highlighted Seanodes as a disrupter of "virtually all conventional storage companies that want to sell you arrays or storage servers." The company's Exanodes[TM] software reclaims unused storage capacity in application servers and puts it to work in a company's production process. "With the launch of our Exanodes software solution, we have created a whole new category of storage - Shared Internal Storage," 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. . "By dramatically reducing management costs, minimizing the need for additional external network storage arrays, saving data center floor space and reducing power consumption, we truly have created a disruptive technology A new technology that has a serious impact on the status quo and changes the way people have been dealing with something, perhaps for decades. Music CDs all but wiped out the phonograph industry within a few years, and digital cameras are destined to eliminate the film industry. that will, as eWeek said, 'set the industry on its ear.' We are appreciative of the recognition of this fact by such a well-respected publication." 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 (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 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. eWeek magazine is a strategic technology information resource that provides complete news analysis, product reviews and unbiased expert opinion that help guide IT decision-makers to the best choices for their companies, and helps them to successfully evaluate, deploy and leverage new technology solutions for competitive business advantage. The weekly publication has a circulation of more than 400,000 and covers the most critical issues, trends, people, platforms and technologies affecting business and important to enterprise-wide computing computing - computer . It is available online at www.eweek.com. ABOUT SEANODES Seanodes was founded in late 2002, the result of several years' research in the IRIT research center in France. Inventor INVENTOR. One who invents or finds out something. 2. The patent laws of the United States authorize a patent to be issued to the original inventor; if the invention is suggested by another, he is not the inventor within the meaning of those laws; but in that 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 company of the year) for its cutting edge patented technology. For more information: www.seanodes.com. |
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