Seanodes Named Finalist in First ‘Green Strategy Awards’

BOSTON, May 28 /PRNewswire/ — Seanodes, the creator and leading developer of Shared Internal Storage solutions, today announced that it has been named a finalist in Virtual Strategy Magazine’s first-ever “Green Strategy Awards.” Online voting is currently underway through May 31 to determine the winner from among the 10 companies vying for honors.

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Finalists of the “Green Strategy Awards” were chosen by the publication’s editorial staff based on criteria of how a company’s virtualization products helped solve critical business needs while minimizing their environmental impact, as well as how the company is a good environmental citizen in regards to its internal operations and within its community. Seanodes was selected for its ability to reduce corporate carbon footprints, lessen the need for power consumption and extend the life of the data center by aggregating, organizing and consolidating storage devices within application servers via its Shared Internal Storage concept.

As businesses look for greener alternatives that reduce power consumption, capital and operating expenses, Storage Virtual Appliances such as Seanodes’ Exanodes VM Edition can maximize the network’s wasted disk capacity, and eliminate the need for over-provisioned external RAID storage with its excessive space, power and cooling costs. Users enjoy the full benefits of server virtualization and can leverage VMware features such as vMotion, Storage vMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduler, VMware High Availability, and VMware Consolidated Backup without complex, cost-prohibitive storage hardware.

“Companies today are looking at ways to not only reduce hardware and management costs but also the over-provisioning of floor space, power consumption and cooling costs associated with wasted internal capacity,” said Frank Gana, Seanodes business development director. “We are proud that Seanodes has been recognized for its ability to minimize these wasteful operations through our Exanodes solution as well as honored among the most ‘green’ companies in the virtualization marketplace by Virtual Strategy Magazine. We are pleased to do our part in making data centers less impactful to the environment while remaining a good corporate citizen within our community as well.”

Virtual Strategy Magazine is the first news and information portal focused exclusively on virtualization technologies. It engages industry experts to provide the most compelling content, making it a dynamic resource for those who need the latest information to ensure reliability, stability, flexibility and scalability in virtualization implementations. Those interested in voting for this year’s “Green Strategy Awards” can do so on the publication’s website at

http://www.virtual-strategy.com/Green-Strategy-Awards-1st-Annual.html

About Seanodes

The inventors of Shared Internal Storage (SIS), Paris-headquartered Seanodes is changing network storage technology. Seanodes’ SIS platform Exanodes runs as a Storage Virtual Appliance and radically alters the economics and possibilities in data storage and server virtualization. Seanodes, a Gartner ‘Cool Vendor,’ 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.

    CONTACT AGENCY:         CONTACT CLIENT:
    Dan Miller              Frank Gana
    JPR Communications      Business Development Director
    818-884-8282            +33 141 22 1380
    danm@jprcom.com         gana@seanodes.com

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