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Seanodes' Shared Internal Storage supercharges performance for Bioinformatics
Company’s Exanodes Software Doubles BLAST Speeds, Improves Utilization to Radically Alter the Economics of Data Storage and Application Processing: Seanodes, the leading developer and inventor of Shared Internal Storage solutions for commoditized servers, today announced a 200 percent increase in BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) speeds for organizations in the Bioinformatic field that implement an Exanodes-based solution, which transforms storage components within computing nodes into a high-end virtualized storage pool by leveraging under-utilized internal storage capacity. 
One of the most widely used tools in Bioinformatics today, BLAST is an application that requires powerful processing speeds to keep pace with ever-growing volumes of data created through its analysis of statistical probability culled from searching DNA sequences and proteins or nucleotides. But as processing needs continue to increase in a highly data-intense field, research organizations are finding it tough to combat declines in performance with limited technology acquisition budgets. Exanodes helps Bioinformatic organizations quickly identify under-utilized internal storage capacity within their existing environments by enabling each node to act as both a computing and storage server, thereby eliminating the need and expense of maintaining dedicated storage arrays. Because NFS servers become harder to manage as infrastructures grow and performance speeds are limited, creating processing bottlenecks, the need for a Shared Internal Storage platform, like Exanodes, to accelerate application runs with a limited budget is becoming a necessity for many budget-conscious companies today. “You would need to spend between 8 to 10 times more money to reach that kind of acceleration by investing in additional servers or a high performance storage array,” said Jacques Baldinger, Seanodes CEO. “When we compared return-on-investment figures for Seanodes’ Exanodes versus additional servers, and the gains realized by the SIS model, we realized that Exanodes could be a really profitable investment,” said Christophe Caron, IT Manager of the French National Institute for Research in Agronomy (INRA) who evaluated the technology. “We’ll also drastically reduce future purchases of disk storage and servers dedicated to this application since we will be maximizing storage resources and making them work for us instead of being limited by them.” "Organizations requiring improvements in performance, reliability, simplicity and affordability of their storage infrastructure need only to look at their current systems and realize that by taking advantage of under-utilized internal storage capacity, they can reap the rewards of a highly efficient storage pool with less cost and complexity," said Baldinger. "With Exanodes, you can make the most of your current infrastructure by quickly identifying unused capacity and drastically reducing new investments in servers and storage while turbo-charging performance and eliminating costly bottlenecks.” Exanodes software can be installed on a wide range of hardware and application servers and can use every type of block device currently on the market (disk, disk partition, RAM disk, Solid State Disk, RAID, external DAS). Exanodes virtualizes application server disks across a server infrastructure eliminating the need for dedicated storage hardware and drastically reducing infrastructure cost.
One of the most widely used tools in Bioinformatics today, BLAST is an application that requires powerful processing speeds to keep pace with ever-growing volumes of data created through its analysis of statistical probability culled from searching DNA sequences and proteins or nucleotides. But as processing needs continue to increase in a highly data-intense field, research organizations are finding it tough to combat declines in performance with limited technology acquisition budgets. Exanodes helps Bioinformatic organizations quickly identify under-utilized internal storage capacity within their existing environments by enabling each node to act as both a computing and storage server, thereby eliminating the need and expense of maintaining dedicated storage arrays. Because NFS servers become harder to manage as infrastructures grow and performance speeds are limited, creating processing bottlenecks, the need for a Shared Internal Storage platform, like Exanodes, to accelerate application runs with a limited budget is becoming a necessity for many budget-conscious companies today. “You would need to spend between 8 to 10 times more money to reach that kind of acceleration by investing in additional servers or a high performance storage array,” said Jacques Baldinger, Seanodes CEO. “When we compared return-on-investment figures for Seanodes’ Exanodes versus additional servers, and the gains realized by the SIS model, we realized that Exanodes could be a really profitable investment,” said Christophe Caron, IT Manager of the French National Institute for Research in Agronomy (INRA) who evaluated the technology. “We’ll also drastically reduce future purchases of disk storage and servers dedicated to this application since we will be maximizing storage resources and making them work for us instead of being limited by them.” "Organizations requiring improvements in performance, reliability, simplicity and affordability of their storage infrastructure need only to look at their current systems and realize that by taking advantage of under-utilized internal storage capacity, they can reap the rewards of a highly efficient storage pool with less cost and complexity," said Baldinger. "With Exanodes, you can make the most of your current infrastructure by quickly identifying unused capacity and drastically reducing new investments in servers and storage while turbo-charging performance and eliminating costly bottlenecks.” Exanodes software can be installed on a wide range of hardware and application servers and can use every type of block device currently on the market (disk, disk partition, RAM disk, Solid State Disk, RAID, external DAS). Exanodes virtualizes application server disks across a server infrastructure eliminating the need for dedicated storage hardware and drastically reducing infrastructure cost.