Seanodes: Small Company Willing to Stand Up

Found on eWEEK on Friday, 27 February 2009
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We called Seanodes a "disruptive" factor in the data storage business -- not because it has a new concept, but because it has taken an older idea and refined it for the virtualized world of IT. Its shared internal storage concept clashes completely with conventional enterprise storage operations because it requires no external storage hardware.

It puts to work virtually all of a system's wasted spinning disk capacity for a hugely less power draw than a typical one that spins up numerous NAS, SAN and SATA disks and cools them in racks.

The latest development in the Seanodes package is that the product now has a business continuity feature. Whenever a disk anywhere in the system goes down or is replaced, whatever may be running on the system is not affected.

I've read about it long ago; now if this technology has matured enough to be considered stable enough for production systems, it's worth a test.