Seanodes Named `Cool Vendor in Storage’

Leading Analyst Firm Chooses Company as One of Five ‘Interesting, New and Innovative Vendors’ in 2008

Seanodes, the leading developer and inventor of Shared Internal Storage solutions, is one of five companies named as a “Cool Vendor” by leading analyst firm Gartner Inc. in an April first 2008 report entitled “Cool Vendors in Storage, 2008” authored by principal research analyst Donna Taylor.

The Gartner report included Seanodes’ SIS technology as “an alternative to traditional external storage capacity expansion” as part of its look at storage vendors providing storage options outside the mainstream.

“We are pleased to have earned the recognition of such a prestigious analyst firm as Gartner and are proud to be included in this year’s ‘Cool Vendors in Storage’ report,” said Jacques Baldinger, CEO of Seanodes. “To be among the short list of companies thought to be reasonable alternatives to traditional storage vendors is indeed an honor and one we intend to live up to by continuing to provide customers with the ability to reclaim underutilized internal disk capacity residing in their own servers, enabling them to reduce costs, complexity and management issues inherent with unstructured data sprawl found in many of today’s storage infrastructures.”

Exanodes virtualizes application server disks across a server infrastructure eliminating the need for dedicated storage hardware setting new and unrivaled standards for performance, reliability and availability through self healing features, and costs through re-utilization of existing, unused commoditized disks of application servers.

About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About Seanodes

The inventors of Shared Internal Storage (SIS), 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.

Contacts

Seanodes
Frank Gana, Business Development Director
+33 141 22 1380
gana {at} seanodes(.)com
or
JPR Communications
Dan Miller, 818-386-0403
danm {at} jprcom(.)com