Seanodes, the creator and leading developer of Shared Internal Storage solutions, today announced that Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and a world-leading publication on technologies and solutions, has named Exanodes™ Virtual Machine Edition a winner of the 2008 Best Products and Services Award. This respected annual award honors products and services that represent the rapidly changing needs and interests of the end-users of technology worldwide. As part of the tech industry’s leading global awards program, this year’s Best Products and Services were nominated from all over the world.

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.

“Increased end-user awareness and ongoing advances in technology are helping shape better products and services,” said Rake Narang, Editor in Chief, Network Products Guide. “Exanodes is bringing improvements in IT issues of complexity, performance, reliability and cost of network storage by enabling consolidation of an organization’s underutilized server storage into a high-performance virtualized storage pool.”

“These awards go to the best technology products every year and we are honored that Exanodes has gained the Network Products Guide Reader Trust,” said Jacques Baldinger, CEO of Seanodes. “We are committed to meeting our customers’ needs by providing them with the best way to alleviate the pain points associated with network storage by offering easy connectors and integration with server virtualization solutions that extend the capabilities to application servers’ internal disks by converting direct attached storage into networked storage. This revolutionary approach delivers a rich set of benefits customers can leverage in their own VM environments.”