Hosted services are faced with a tricky type of challenge for their infrastructure as it has to be easy to manage, efficient, reliable and affordable. On the server front, server commoditization and virtual machines have made it possible to fulfill these needs. However, on the storage front, being easy to manage, efficient and reliable has, to date, never been combined with being affordable. That is, before Seanodes.
Seanodes’ Shared Internal Storage (SIS) introduces a new way to share storage by reusing disks embedded in Linux and ESX servers as if they were a reliable, convenient external storage array. Even better, SIS’s high-performance allows users to overcome the most demanding throughput requirements. The combination of all these characteristics means that Seanodes’ SIS is the perfect solution for hosted service infrastructures because it is the only solution that results in a drastic reduction in traditional external storage investment needs.
The advent of Seanodes’ Shared Internal Storage means that easy to manage, efficient, reliable shared storage has suddenly become affordable.
SIS benefits for Service Providers:
Unrivaled Price/Performance ratio – 6- to 10-fold better than any other storage technology
Simplicity – installed in minutes, easy management…
Investment Protection / Hardware Agnostic – you can use heterogeneous hardware (servers, disks) and aggregate all this as a unified homogeneous pool of storage
Low energy footprint – no additional hardware to eat energy
Floor space – reusing storage resources of application and ESX servers helps to reduce the cost of the production datacenter footprint since you don’t have to allocate room for dedicated storage boxes
