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The inventors of Shared Internal Storage (SIS),
Paris-headquartered Seanodes is changing network storage technology. Seanodes'
SIS platform Exanodes™ radically alters the economics and possibilities in
data storage and application processing. Seanodes 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 from two continents and backed by a number of private
equity firms. More information can be found at www.seanodes.com or by calling
866-580-5515.
- editor's comments:- in June 2009 -
Seanodes
disclosed
results
of tests using entry level SSDs
with its
Exanodes
virtual SAN software.
In an ESX environment of 8 servers with 1
SSD drive per server, IOmeter benchmark results showed 36,000 IOPS (random read
4K) for a system with an overall cost under $20K (including the cost of SSDs and
Exanodes VM Edition).
“‘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”.
Seanodes says it's trying to
fix the problem of aggregating and sharing multiple low capacity, low cost
SSDs between servers without requiring special tuning skills. But I have to
say the quoted IOPS don't sound impressive to me compared to the
fastest SSDs. So
why wouldn't you use less servers and a better SSD instead?
With so
many other competing solutions in the
rackmount SSD and
PCIe SSD market - I
suspect that Seanode's solution may only provide an economic price point for a
tiny fraction of possible applications - or none at all. There isn't enough
data in the press release to be sure. |
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