serviSMART chooses Seanodes for Storage Backbone
ServiSMART, a Portugal-based emerging service provider, has selected Seanodes Shared Internal Storage technology as the virtualized storage platform for its new cloud computing infrastructure
Boston, September 9, 2008 - Seanodes™, the creator and leading developer of Shared Internal Storage solutions, today announced that ServiSMART, a Portugal-based emerging service provider, has selected Seanodes Shared Internal Storage technology as the virtualized storage platform for its new cloud computing infrastructure.
ServiSMART is an emerging hosted services provider currently in stealth mode founded and managed by a team of experienced executives who formerly worked for some of the largest ISPs in Europe. ServiSMART is creating a fully virtualized Hosted Services/Cloud Computing and ERP Hosted Applications platform for the European market using an off-the-shelf open source Xen solution combined with its ServiSMART Infrastructure. For the storage component of its cloud computing platform ServiSMART has chosen to use the latest product from Seanodes, Exanodes™ VM Edition.
ServiSMART made the decision to go with Seanodes based on the cost, performance and the simplicity of deploying Exanodes VM Edition into a virtualized environment, according to Frederico Marques, CTO of ServiSMART. “After evaluating the Exanodes product we clearly thought that it was the ultimate solution and the only one to build a real storage cloud for our hosted services platform,” said Marques. “In terms of performance and simplicity, this solution is a perfect fit for our Hosted Services/Cloud Computing-Storage platform. And with Exanodes VM Edition we can get the benefits of high-end networked storage for half the cost of an entry-level SATA box.”
Marques also acknowledged the unmatched value proposition of the Exanodes platform, enabling ServiSMART to offer a premium service at a commodity price. “Most hosted services platforms offer a long-term/persistent storage platform, but for storage requirements when the application is running they only offer low performance, unreliable, non-networked storage for one simple reason: using traditional storage solutions, this kind of ‘premium’ service would be billed at a high price,” said Marques. “Exanodes will enable us to offer high-level storage services in terms of performance, reliability and the ability for the platform user to migrate a virtual machine from one server to another. All this for a very competitive price thanks to Seanodes’ innovative Shared Internal Storage concept.”
“The ServiSMART cloud storage platform is a perfect test bed to showcase the performance, scalability and enterprise-class availability of Exanodes VM Edition,” said Frank Gana, Business Development Director at Seanodes. “Exanodes VM Edition is a breakthrough technology that smashes the limitations of traditional approaches to enterprise storage and enables the creation of a fully virtualized infrastructure by simplifying the linkage of virtual server and storage environments.”
About ServiSMART
ServiSMART supplies hosted services, systems engineering and virtual infrastructure consulting to companies in the areas of Information Technology and Telecommunications. ServiSMART provides expertise and experience in integrating new emerging technologies for demanding corporate environments in the areas of virtualization, storage clusters, server consolidation and cloud computing.
About Exanodes VM Edition
As with previous versions of Exanodes, the VM Edition is designed to alleviate the pain points associated with network storage by enabling consolidation of an organization’s underutilized server storage into a high-performance virtualized storage pool. By combining disparate applications’ and operating servers’ storage throughout the enterprise and eliminating the need for a dedicated networked storage array, Exanodes VM Edition creates a virtual SAN to provide total server virtualization, tackling cumbersome IT issues of complexity, performance, reliability and cost head on. Exanodes VM Edition redefines simplicity with installation, configuration and deployment measured in minutes rather than days for typical SAN deployments. It requires no target management, no additional hardware, no need for external SAN storage or fabrics and no specific storage competencies. It provides a high level of performance through improved parallelism and full utilization of hardware at the user’s disposal. Exanodes offers highly available reliability through catastrophic fault tolerance that includes self-healing capabilities and less than 40 minutes to rebuild a 1TB disk. The solution is the first to help IT managers redefine the economics of storage, avoiding the investment in traditional SANs that are as much as 20 times more expensive.
About Seanodes
The creators of Shared Internal Storage (SIS), Seanodes is changing the architecture of Storage Area Networks and networked 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 the media recognizing its outstanding technology that virtualizes storage assets to convert unused internal disks and Direct Attached Storage (DAS) into a clustered shared storage array. Founded in 2002, Seanodes is headed by an accomplished team of storage industry veterans and has corporate locations in North America and Europe. More information can be found at www.seanodes.com or by calling 866-580-5515.