French startup Seanodes has launched its Exanodes software, which transforms the storage components inside commodity application servers into high-end virtualized storage pools. "With Seanodes' Shared Internal Storage, server virtualization is pushed one step ahead to provide full storage infrastructure virtualization and full storage infrastructure consolidation," said Seanodes CEO and founder Jacques Baldinger.

“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," Baldinger said. "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 for 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,” she added.

With an architecture designed for high-performance computing and enterprise environments, Baldinger noted, Seanodes’ new software architecture "gives IT managers the ability to easily avoid the overwhelming cost and complexities of conventional SAN and NAS network storage architectures."

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