Seanodes Expands Exanodes Reach With Dutch Reseller Deal

Compliant signs on to sell company’s network storage offerings throughout The Netherlands

BOSTON, June 23 /PRNewswire/ — Seanodes, creator of Exanodes(R) and inventor of the Shared Internal Storage (SIS) concept, announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with Compliant Data Management Solutions, a storage solutions provider in The Netherlands, to further expand the reach of its award-winning technology that virtualizes storage assets to leverage underused internal disks and Direct Attached Storage (DAS) into a virtual shared storage array.

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Compliant specializes in data storage and data management solutions with an emphasis on products that increase the profitability and reduce an organization’s total cost of ownership through offerings that are safe, reliable and environmentally friendly. Compliant works with strategic partners to design customer infrastructures that leverage existing IT purchases for a maximum return on investment.

“Exanodes fits perfectly into our portfolio of proven storage solutions that help companies manage data within their organization in an efficient and cost-effective way,” said Michel Van Hattum, DGA at Compliant Data Management Solutions. “With its excellence in virtualizing existing IT components and offering green alternatives to traditional solutions found in many data centers today, Seanodes is an ideal partner in providing innovative means of data storage and management that satisfies the business and operational demands of organizations now and into the future.”

Compliant is the latest addition to Seanodes’ ever-expanding roster of channel partners throughout Europe and the United States. The company recently launched a U.S.-based reseller program for VARs interested in combining Exanodes VM Edition Storage Virtual Appliances with VMware, which has been well-received by the reseller community.

“We have seen a dramatic increase in interest for Exanodes-based storage solutions, and we have been working hard to expand our distribution channel to satisfy this demand,” said Frank Gana, Business Development Director at Seanodes. “As we are 100 percent committed to the channel, it is important for us to partner with leading solutions providers, like Compliant, to successfully sell and deliver Shared Internal Storage solutions to customers throughout the world.”

Exanodes is ideal for small to mid-sized businesses that are transitioning to network storage, high-performance computing, and hosted storage services such as cloud computing that need to maximize capacity, reliability and performance at a lower cost than traditional network storage. Exanodes creates a virtualized storage pool that leverages server-attached storage assets and makes them available as part of a shared, scalable, and resilient storage network and enables companies to maximize the ROI of their current storage technology. Deploying an Exanodes-based storage back end allows companies running Seanode’s Storage Virtual Appliances, VMware for server virtualization to derive the same cost, flexibility, simplicity and other benefits in a fully virtualized computing infrastructure.

About Seanodes

The inventors of Shared Internal Storage (SIS), Seanodes is changing the face of 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 and backed by a number of private equity firms. More information can be found at www.seanodes.com or by calling 866-580-5515.

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

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