Mandriva has become a strategic partner for Seanodes, with two main
areas of co-operation:
- availability of Seanodes' Shared Internal Storage (SIS) solution in
Mandriva Corporate Server 4;
- global technical partnership between Mandriva and Seanodes on
virtualization solutions.
This new partnership will provide a low cost storage solution both for
high performance computing and virtualized
environments. Virtualization is one of the main features of Corporate
Server 4, which includes the newest tools from Xen, SWsoft and
VMware. Exanodes, Seanodes' Shared Internal Storage solution, aims to
harmonize the use of internal disks of physical machines in an easy,
efficient and reliable way.
"As Mandriva is a strategic player in the Linux distributions market,
it was quite natural for Seanodes to work closely with Mandriva?,
explains Franck Gana, Seanodes Marketing Manager. ?The Exanodes and
Shared Internal Storage concept is a close fit not only for high
performance computing but also for virtualization. These are two
domains in which Mandriva provides efficient solutions".
By certifying and distributing Seanodes products, Mandriva further
adds to its range of partners in the server market. According to Anne
Nicolas, Mandriva Corporate Product Manager, "Seanodes' approach is
extremely interesting because it provides complete virtualization of
physical server resources. It will be a good complement for all our
virtualization tools included in Corporate Server 4".
For Mandriva, this new partnership represents an ideal way to grow the
software ecosystem for Corporate Server 4. For Seanodes, it is another
step towards developing a technological and commercial ecosystem for
High Performance Computing.
About Seanodes
Founded in 2002 and stemming from a French research laboratory,
Seanodes is a software publisher which offers data storage solutions
specifically designed to meet the demands of Linux clusters. Seanodes'
ambition is to extend the principles of distributed open systems to
the world of data storage. Exanodes, the first product put out by
Seanodes, makes it possible to drastically reduce storage system costs
while doubling performance (I/O and speed). In 2003, Seanodes won the
first prize at the CETI contest organized by the Ministry of Research
and ANVAR.
href="http://www.seanodes.com" target="_blank">www.seanodes.com
About Mandriva
Mandriva, formerly known as Mandrakesoft, is the publisher of the
popular Mandriva Linux operating system, one of the most full-featured
and easy to use Linux systems. The company offers its enterprise,
government, and educational customers a complete range of GNU/Linux
and open source software and related services. Mandriva products are
available in more than 140 countries through dedicated channels and
also from Mandriva Store, the company's online store. Born in 1998,
the company has offices in the United States, France and Brazil. More
information at:
href="http://www.mandriva.com" target="_blank">www.mandriva.com
Press contacts:
Seanodes
* Jacques Baldinger / Frank Gana - +33 (0)1 41 22 13 80 / Fax :
01 41 22 13 85
Mandriva
* Celine Harrand -
href="mailto:celine.harrand@mandriva.com">celine.harrand@mandriva.com
- +33 (0)1 40 41 97 29
* Emilie Ngo-van Do -
href="mailto:engovando@mandriva.com">engovando@mandriva.com - +33
(0)1 40 41 67 67
* Guillaume Martin -
href="mailto:gmartin@mandriva.com">gmartin@mandriva.com - +33 (0)1
40 41 17 64
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