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2012-02-11T19:26:26+00:00

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Ethernet SAN: At the Intersection of Enterprise Storage and Cloud Scale

2012-02-07T03:52:28+00:00

Business demand for technology continually increases, but businesses have no tolerance for waste. This forces IT into a survival-of-the-fittest mode, ridding the data center of underperforming products -- and storage is currently under fire.

Showing off: What’s hot or not

2012-02-01T05:27:48+00:00

2011 was a busy year for IT professionals, with many trade shows and conferences on the calendar; from SNW to VMworld via IP Expo and CeBIT, old and new events are vying for vendors and resellers’ budget and end users’ time. And although each show had a different focus, some technologies were the subject of numerous discussions across the board. So here is what we heard and what seem to be the big trends for 2012 and beyond...

Best Practice: Palmer’s College, Essex

2012-02-01T00:15:32+00:00

Would you choose to work direct with a US-based company that had no local representation? Five years ago, probably not – too risky. But for Dan Byne, IT Manager at Palmers College in Essex, that potential risk was outweighed by what he thought he could gain from such a relationship – and in the end, did.

Coraid plans further storage market disruption

2012-01-31T03:53:24+00:00

Coraid, which already claims to offer Ethernet-attached storage that offers a 5-8x price-performance advantage over legacy storage, is readying complete thin provisioning capability for an imminent launch, CBR has learned.

Commoditise storage to slash costs using AoE, says Coraid

2012-01-27T03:41:24+00:00

Thanks to x86 and other "commodity" components, users usually get good value for money from their server systems. However, storage subsystems and their connectivity remain stubbornly complex and costly. This has got to change - and for some this has started to happen.

Palmer’s College scores on virtualisation, data centre consolidation

2012-01-26T23:10:18+00:00

From 20+ servers in 2009 to just three servers now, a virtualisation and data centre consolidation project at Palmer’s College helped improve IT efficiency and save on data centre cooling costs.

Coraid and Transcend United Technologies Partner

2012-01-17T00:32:26+00:00

Coraid Inc. and Transcend United Technologies, LLC, a Pennsylvania-based global IT systems integration and managed services firm, announced a partnership that delivers Ethernet SAN storage for Transcend United cloud services.

Coraid and Transcend United Technologies Announce Partnership

2012-01-13T00:34:14+00:00

Transcend United Technologies has partnered with Coraid to provide next-generation Ethernet SAN storage for Transcend United cloud services.

Most Promising Storage Start-Ups in 2012

2011-12-27T17:09:52+00:00

For the second year we are ranking the top 15 most promising storage start-ups. It's not easy to classify storage start-ups as they are involved in completely different technologies (basic hardware and subsystems, de-dupe, cloud, archiving, etc). But we did it. This ranking is the result of the opinion of a journalist - not a consultant or an expert - following daily the worldwide storage industry considering of course the technology of each company, but also their most recent financial rounds of funding and their growth when available. Anybody else trying to the do the same ranking will get different results.

#3 Coraid: network storage appliances based on ATA-over-Ethernet

Disk-over-Ethernet startup trousers another $50m

2011-11-04T20:53:49+00:00

A year after snagging $25m in venture capital funding Coraid has gone back to the cash well and scooped up another $50m. The VCs think Coraid is going places.

Seagate Participates In $50-Million Funding Round For Ethernet SAN Maker Coraid

2011-11-04T02:54:59+00:00

Storage vendor Coraid, demonstrating that venture capital funding for IT companies is far from dried up, on Thursday unveiled a new $50-million investment in the company that included Seagate as a participant.

Coraid Raises $50 Million For Next-Gen Elastic Data Storage

2011-11-03T21:31:19+00:00

Coraid, a developer of Ethernet SAN storage solutions, this morning announced that it has closed a sizable $50 million series C round led by Crosslink Capital. Coraid’s existing investors Menlo Ventures, Allegis Capital, Azure Capital Partners and affiliates of Silver Lake all participated in the round, as well as new investors including Seagate Technology and Kinetic Ventures.

Coraid raises $50 million for cheap scale-out storage push

2011-11-03T21:00:00+00:00

Scale-out SAN vendor Coraid raised $50 million in venture funding in a Series C round led by Crosslink Capital. Seagate, Kinetic Ventures, and Silverlake AG are also new backers in this round. The seven-year-old company has now garnered a total of $85 million. Early investors were Menlo Ventures, Allegis Capital and Azure Capital Partners.

Coraid Raises $50 Million From Investor Group Led by Crosslink

2011-11-03T16:00:22+00:00

Coraid Inc., a maker of data-storage devices for businesses, raised $50 million from an investor group led by Crosslink Capital to expand its product engineering team and global operations.

Coraid raises $50M, hits 1,500 customer mark

2011-11-03T13:43:10+00:00

It is the kind of startup that doesn't feel like a startup at all, says its CEO Kevin Brown of his more than 100-employee company that now has over 1,500 customers worldwide in 45 countries.

A Look at Coraid’s Ethernet SAN Technology: No Flash in the Pan

2011-10-28T18:40:07+00:00

These days, it can prove downright daunting to keep pace with the constant strides storage vendors are making in the industry. This is especially true when it comes to flash storage, a technology that has not only emerged as a major disruptor but also spawned an array of products – many of which add unnecessary complexity to enterprise-level storage environments.

Enter Coraid, which has upgraded its EtherDrive Ethernet SAN platform to support an all-flash configuration called EtherFlash. This new solution provides high performance, low-latency access to flash drives sans the bottlenecks and limitations inherent with legacy storage and Fibre Channel networks. I spoke last week with Kevin Brown, Coraid’s CEO, about how his company is breaking new ground in the SAN space and the beauty of being able to offer an enormously flexible “one tier for all” storage product.

Coraid Acquires Yunteq

2011-10-20T22:41:54+00:00

Coraid Inc., developer of Ethernet SAN solutions with more than 1,400 customers, announced the acquisition of Yunteq, Inc., a provider of cloud orchestration software for public and private clouds founded in 2009.

Coraid Scoffs Cloud Platform Startup

2011-10-20T22:37:08+00:00

Coraid, the developer of the simplest Ethernet SAN storage, has bought cloud orchestration software maker Yunteq.

Coraid Acquires Yunteq To Add Automation To Clouds

2011-10-20T22:35:57+00:00

Coraid, a developer of Ethernet storage networking solutions, is making a bid for the cloud storage market with the acquisition of cloud orchestration software developer Yunteq.

Coraid Acquires Cloud Orchestration Vendor, Yunteq for Undisclosed Amount

2011-10-19T23:32:27+00:00

Coraid Inc., a developer of Ethernet SAN solutions with more than 1,400 customers, announced Wednesday acquisition of Yunteq Inc., a provider of cloud orchestration software for public and private clouds. Coraid’s Ethernet SAN platform eliminates multiple layers of traditional SAN complexity, providing an ideal platform for an automated, elastic storage infrastructure.

A Leading Provider Of Ethernet SAN Solutions Acquires Yunteq

2011-10-19T23:30:00+00:00

Coraid Inc., a leading developer of Ethernet SAN solutions , announced the acquisition of Yunteq, Inc., a provider of cloud orchestration software for public and private clouds. Coraid’s groundbreaking Ethernet SAN platform eliminates multiple layers of traditional SAN complexity, providing the ideal platform for an automated, elastic storage infrastructure. Yunteq’s sophisticated resource management framework and policy-driven orchestration engine automate provisioning and policies at the network, storage, and security layers, reducing operating expenses and providing an ideal complement to Coraid’s breakthrough Ethernet SAN architecture.

Cloud Orchestration Software Provider Yunteq Acquired by Coraid

2011-10-19T23:28:43+00:00

Ethernet SAN solutions developer Coraid Inc has acquired Yunteq Inc, a provider of cloud orchestration software for public and private clouds, the company said today.

Coraid Buys Cloud Orchestration Vendor Yunteq

2011-10-19T23:24:03+00:00

Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Redwood City-based Coraid develops EtherDrive storage technologies and has more than 1,400 customers. Yunteq's technology is expected to complement Coraid's Ethernet storage area network architecture.

Storage Firm Coraid Acquires Cloud Software Developer Yunteq

2011-10-19T22:14:29+00:00

Ethernet SAN solutions provider Coraid (www.coraid.com) announced on Wednesday it has acquired cloud software provider Yunteq (http://yunteq.com). The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Coraid Adds Cloud Orchestration Vendor Yunteq to its Technology Stable

2011-10-19T21:55:26+00:00

Today Coraid Inc. acquired cloud orchestration company Yunteq Inc. and plans to use the technology from the startup to accelerate its plans to build Ethernet storage-area networks (SANs) for public cloud storage providers.

Caringo, Coraid Team

2011-09-27T21:56:32+00:00

Caringo, Inc. and Coraid Inc. announced an unified storage infrastructure for scale-out block and object storage.

The combined solution provides customers with operational flexibility by integrating the scalability and ease of management of object storage with elastic, high-performance Ethernet SAN storage. The Caringo-Coraid solution is suited for cloud computing, large enterprises, video and big data environments struggling with the growth of unstructured data.

Cloud Computing Data Storage: Buying Guide

2011-09-26T21:51:00+00:00

Although many enterprises are moving applications and other processes to the cloud, data backups and storage are still often local. On-site storage seem easier to control and secure, yet it’s costly to administer and leaves organizations vulnerable should a natural disaster hit.

Moreover, bottlenecks often form at the local level, especially when integrating remote applications and assets with those managed on-site.

Most organizations with a cloud presence have an eye toward using the cloud for data storage. But with a variety of cloud storage vendors to choose from, it’s important to ask the following questions to assure valuable digital assets are managed efficiently and effectively...

Coraid mates with Caringo, producing cheap objects

2011-09-15T15:36:43+00:00

Caringo is mating its technology with that of Coraid. The object is to pair its object storage system with Coraid arrays, accessible by AoE, said to be the simplest storage network in the world.

VMworld 2011: The Momentum Continues

2011-09-06T20:03:25+00:00

Cloud remains the predominant marketing term in the IT industry. In one sense I like how it sparks innovation and new IT thinking but on the other hand it makes my stomach turn every time I hear it. I just completed a week in Las Vegas attending my 7th VMworld and most of what I saw was on par with my expectations.

Coraid EtherFlash Scale-Out Solution With SSDs, SAS, and SATA Drives

2011-09-06T20:01:38+00:00

Coraid Inc., developer of Ethernet SAN solutions with more than 1,400 customers, unveiled the EtherFlash solution, which provides performance, low-latency access to flash drives without the bottlenecks and limitations of legacy storage and FC networks.

Meet The Chief Executive Chef: Coraid’s Kevin Brown

2011-09-02T19:58:12+00:00

When things heat up in the boardroom, Coraid’s CEO Kevin Brown, heads to the kitchen. His four passions are networking, storage, virtualization AND gourmet.

Coraid Unveils EtherDrive SAN Manager 1.5

2011-09-02T19:56:13+00:00

Coraid Inc., developer of Ethernet SAN solutions with more than 1,400 customers, announced EtherDrive SAN Manager(ESM) 1.5, a management platform which provides integration with VMware vCenter Server and Microsoft VSS and pools storage resources for simplified storage operations.

VMworld 2011: Storage Products Take Center Stage

2011-09-01T06:54:55+00:00

Calif.-based Coraid showed its latest EtherFlash solution for high performance, low latency access to Flash drives.

Coraid EtherFlash Announces Scale-Out SSD Performance

2011-08-31T06:52:30+00:00

Offering high performance, low-latency access to flash drives without the bottlenecks and limitations of legacy storage and Fiber Channel networks, Coraid has introduced the Coraid EtherFlash solution, the company has announced.

Products of the Week

2011-08-30T06:50:57+00:00

Our round-up of intriguing new products from Cisco, Coraid, VKernel among others.

Quantum, Acronis target VMware backup and recovery at VMworld

2011-08-30T06:47:15+00:00

Coraid rolled out the CoraidEtherFlash array, consisting of Coraid’s EtherDrive SRX storage arrays, solid-state drives and the vendor’s new CorOS operating system optimized for managing data on SSDs.

Coraid Automates Storage Management for Virtualization

2011-08-27T07:44:19+00:00

Coraid Inc., has announced Coraid EtherDrive SAN Manager (ESM) 1.5, its newest management platform which provides integration with VMware vCenter Server and Microsoft VSS. The platform pools storage resources for simplified storage operations by eliminating multiple layers of SAN complexity and enabling automation in virtualized and cloud computing environments.

Coraid Releases Management Platform

2011-08-27T06:31:41+00:00

Coraid, a developer of Ethernet SAN solutions, announced Coraid EtherDrive SAN Manager 1.5, Coraid's newest management platform.

Coraid’s New ESM Platform Powers Up Automation In Virtualised And Cloud Computing Environments

2011-08-26T06:26:07+00:00

Coraid® Inc., a leading developer of Ethernet SAN solutions with more than 1,400 customers, announced Coraid EtherDrive® SAN Manager (ESM) 1.5, Coraid’s newest management platform, which provides integration with VMware vCentre Server and Microsoft VSS and pools storage resources for simplified storage operations. Coraid’s groundbreaking Ethernet SAN platform eliminates multiple layers of traditional SAN complexity, and ESM enables powerful automation in virtualised and cloud computing environments.

Coraid unveils automated storage management for virtualization and cloud

2011-08-25T06:21:35+00:00

Californian Ethernet SAN providers, Coraid, yesterday announced the release of Coraid EtherDrive SAN Manager (ESM) 1.5, Coraid’s newest management platform, which provides integration with VMware vCentre Server and Microsoft VSS, and pools storage resources for simplified cloud and virtualization storage operations.

Coraid Adds SSD, Management Capabilities

2011-08-23T18:41:26+00:00

Coraid, Inc., a developer of Ethernet-based SANs (storage area networks) that has roots in the Linux environment, is introducing two new products that should provide significant cost and performance benefits, says CEO Kevin Brown. “There is a 5-8x price-performance advantage and power and space savings are over and above that.”

Barryhund Administrators deploys Coraid EtherDrive storage

2011-08-08T22:26:53+00:00

Coraid Inc., a developer of Ethernet SAN offerings, announced Monday that Barryhund Administrators Inc. has selected Coraid EtherDrive for their Ethernet SAN storage.

Why fibre channel doesn’t work for cloud

2011-07-19T17:28:06+00:00

Kevin Brown, CEO for US data storage provider and leading Ethernet SAN developer Coraid, explains why data storage and new cloud computing infrastructures are often being built on an old-fashioned Fibre Channel. Time to upgrade to gain the full benefit of the cloud?

Coraid Forms Customer Advisory Council to Guide Development of Breakthrough Ethernet Storage Solutio

2011-07-18T17:30:49+00:00

With an aim toward building world class storage solution, a leading developer of Ethernet SAN solutions, Coraid Inc., has created a Customer Advisory Council, which will be represented by top executives from industry-leading companies in a wide variety of markets. The Council is expected to help the company accomplish this goal through development guidelines.

Coraid announces customer advisory council

2011-07-14T17:27:34+00:00

Coraid has announced the formation of its Customer Advisory Council. Members of the council represent top executives from industry-leading companies in a wide variety of markets including Shutterstock, Legg Mason Capital Management, Exegy, Inc., Pac-West Telecomm, Thought Equity Motion, Smartronix, and Northrop Grumman Corporation. The Customer Advisory Council will work closely with Coraid's executive team to forecast future data centre requirements; identify emerging trends in the cloud, virtualisation, and storage markets; and develop and refine product roadmaps.

ParkingSOFT Drives With Coraid

2011-07-13T17:26:17+00:00

Coraid, Inc., developer of Ethernet SAN solutions with more than 1,400 customers worldwide, announced that ParkingSOFT, in parking products and applications, has selected Coraid EtherDrive Ethernet SAN storage for their virtualization project.

Essex college deploys ATA over Ethernet

2011-07-11T17:24:49+00:00

Essex sixth-form institution Palmer’s College has deployed Coraid ATA over Ethernet SAN storage as part of a data centre virtualisation project.

In 2010 the college was offered an interest-free government loan toward its IT infrastructure, so it decided to virtualise its data centre to save power and cooling as it had maxed out the available capacity.

Coraid Offers Ethernet SAN Storage to ParkingSOFT

2011-07-06T23:06:57+00:00

Coraid, a developer of Ethernet storage area network (SAN) solutions, announced that ParkingSOFT, a provider of parking products and applications, selected Coraid EtherDrive Ethernet SAN storage for its virtualization project.

Coraid’s AoE storage approach anyone?

2011-07-01T19:14:09+00:00

Storage data communication has become too complicated and expensive. So I love it when I see a technology that genuinely reduces complexity-and saves money-without an obvious performance downside. I am sure cash-strapped small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in particular would concur.

Duplo Turns to Coraid EtherDrive

2011-06-27T20:13:36+00:00

Coraid Inc., announced that Duplo International has deployed Coraid EtherDrive technology to build a shared storage solution for a Microsoft Hyper-V environment.

The result is an Ethernet-based, enterprise-level SAN that out-performs any Fibre Channel and iSCSI alternatives, at a fraction of the cost.

Souped-up Coraid aims to change its spots

2011-06-03T22:00:16+00:00

Coraid used to be a downmarket beast, selling its Ethernet storage wares off a barrow on the street - now it's got shiny new management and has new aspirations. Can it make the transition and become a creature to be reckoned with?

Coraid laments impact of M&A on storage VARs

2011-05-27T05:58:53+00:00

Ethernet SAN vendor Coraid claims that scores of VARs have been left high and dry by the recent run of acquisitions in the storage channel.

Coraid marked the start of its EMEA expansion plans earlier this week with the rollout of its first channel programme, which already counts VARs Bell Microsystems and S3 as members.

The different ethernet storage: an introduction to Coraid

2011-05-27T05:44:40+00:00

A couple of days ago I was in an interesting call with two executives from Coraid: Kevin Brown (CEO) and his colleague Marcos Burnett (EMEA sales director). The following story is a resume of that call and a first introduction to Coraid technology and products.

Coraid launches formal EMEA partner programme

2011-05-26T05:52:08+00:00

Ethernet SAN vendor Coraid has formally launched an EMEA channel programme following steady reseller growth.

The firm has built up around 350 customers in the region and has organically grown to nine channel partners in the UK. The new programme will formalise its relationships but will forgo distribution to instead rely on a three-man team lead by Marcos Burnett, formally of ONStor, to manage partners and grow the business.

NetApp, EMC Threatened By Virtualization Technology

2011-05-24T23:15:50+00:00

"Many of these companies are seen as the next generation in data storage," said Paul Bard, research director of the Global IPO Fund of Renaissance Capital.
He says the smaller players have a flexibility advantage over EMC and others.
"The big legacy storage vendors want to embrace the new technology," Bard said, "but that requires a big overhaul of their architecture, and they don't want to cannibalize existing products."

7 Emerging Vendors in Cloud Computing Storage

2011-05-18T21:52:37+00:00

The following vendors are at the forefront of tackling the various challenges of data storage and management – from assisting small and medium-sized businesses to enabling management of the largest corpora of data to date. In alphabetical order, here are 7 emerging cloud storage vendors who could help you get a handle on your data headaches.

The Third Way

2011-04-06T21:41:24+00:00

Ethernet seems to be the way forward for storage. However, while most attention is focused on iSCSI- and Fibre Channel-based solutions, Coraid offers a viable third alternative, Ethernet SAN systems using ATA over Ethernet. SNS Europe talks to Kevin Brown, Coraid CEO and Gurdip Kalley, Business Development Manager at S3.

Disruptive Data Center Technologies

2011-03-14T20:23:48+00:00

The problem with trying to compete around a core competency in the data center is that everybody pretty much uses a variant of the same basic technologies. So while some companies are better than others in terms of the number of people they need to manage the overall data center environment, the technologies themselves are not providing a substantial competitive advantage.

However, the folks at Coraid, a provider of Ethernet-based storage area networks, and Arista Networks, which provides data center switching software that runs on top of standard Intel-class processors rather than more expensive custom processors typically found in switches developed by incumbent network infrastructure vendors, want to change the equation. The two companies have announced that they are working together to bring their respective approaches to new core data center technologies to market.

Coraid and Arista Networks Team Up

2011-03-14T20:10:35+00:00

Coraid Inc. and Arista Networks, Inc., in data center switching for cloud networking, announced that the two companies have teamed up to deliver high-performance Ethernet SAN solutions.

The combination of Arista 10GbE switches and Coraid EtherDrive storage arrays provides customers with a 5-8x price performance advantage over legacy storage, while simplifying deployment of virtualization and cloud projects.

Coraid, Arista Networks Team on Ethernet SAN Acceleration

2011-03-10T21:20:16+00:00

Roughly a year ago, Coraid offered its new EtherDrive technology that aimed to boost network speed by removing SAN bottlenecks. Now the company is working with Arista Networks for a new Ethernet SAN offering that aims for the cloud. Here are the details …

Coraid And Arista Partner On High-Performance Ethernet SAN

2011-03-10T20:30:50+00:00

Presaging a future data center with converged networking and storage, storage vendor Coraid and data switching vendor Arista Networks announced this week that they are partnering to deliver high-performance Ethernet storage area networking that the companies say could offer a five to eight times price/performance advantage over legacy storage systems, and at the same time make it easier to deploy virtualization and the cloud. The companies are doing this in two steps: first, by certifying that their products work with each other's and second, through deeper product integration in the future.

Coraid accesses storage with Arista

2011-03-08T20:28:37+00:00

Coraid is allying with Andy Bechtolsheim's Arista to accelerate access to its storage.

Customers would use Arista 10GBitE switches, such as the 7500, to get faster access to their Coraid EtherDrive arrays using the lightweight ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) protocol. This has a lower network overhead than iSCSI and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and doesn't need specialised Fibre Channel fabrics to link accessing servers and storage.

Coraid out to Redefine Storage Economics

2011-03-07T17:10:57+00:00

Imagine being a CIO. If you are then 40% of your IT budget is going into storage because you have to accommodate 50%, 60%, 70% growth in data a year.

So this guy walks into your office and promises to double your storage capacity, make it faster than ever, virtualize it, lower your operating costs and give you back half your storage budget.

If this sounds familiar then maybe you're one of the 1,300 customers of Kevin Brown, the CEO of Coraid, a start-up developing scale-out Ethernet SAN solutions.

Coraid Throws Out Standard SAN for New Age DAS

2011-03-03T01:00:23+00:00

Progressive storage software maker Coraid has taken the entire concept of tiered storage-area networks -- with all their controllers, switches, complications and bottlenecks -- and has thrown it out the window.

In its place, Coraid has simplified and optimized enterprise data storage in a manner akin to the old direct-attached storage (DAS) scheme. But this isn't your father's DAS; this is DAS, circa the 21st century.

Coraid adds virtualization to Ethernet SANs

2011-03-01T22:47:19+00:00

Coraid today introduced the EtherDrive VSX-Series of storage virtualization appliances for Ethernet SANs based on the ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) protocol and Coraid’s disk arrays. The VSX virtualization appliances bring “enterprise-class” features to Ethernet SANs, including logical volume management, synchronous mirroring, snapshots and cloning.

Coraid adds storage virtualization appliance for Ethernet SAN arrays

2011-03-01T17:24:00+00:00

Coraid Inc. today unveiled a storage virtualization appliance that adds logical volume management for pooling storage across its arrays, synchronous mirroring, snapshots, cloning and asynchronous remote replication -- advanced storage management and data protection features that were missing in its EtherDrive SRX platform that launched last year.

Could Coraid be readying for takeoff?

2011-03-01T16:42:25+00:00

Comment Coraid is that niche ATA over Ethernet (AOE) vendor that's always about to break out of its reservation but never has. That could be about to change if things we're hearing from resellers are true.

Storage Area Networking Made Simpler, Less Expensive with Coraid SRX

2011-02-25T17:09:03+00:00

Coraid brings reduced costs and simplicity to the SAN market with its SRX line of storage products, which use layer 2 Ethernet connectivity and AoE (ATA over Ethernet) to eschew the complexities and high costs of Fibre Channel and iSCSI-based SANs.

Build Your Own SAN With AoE

2011-02-07T16:48:42+00:00

When I first heard of the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) protocol, I got excited about the possibilities. Sending ATA commands directly over an Ethernet physical layer offers tremendous simplicity, flexibility and low overhead that potentially could result in astonishing performance. As the rumors of official acceptance into the Linux kernel grew louder, I waited with bated breath. I believed this would be game-changing for the storage market.

Coraid survey expose high storage costs dilute benefits of server virtualization

2011-02-02T18:55:03+00:00

Coraid Inc., a developer of Ethernet SAN solutions, announced Wednesday the results of a survey of 254 storage and IT administrators in mid- to large-size enterprises covering a variety of industries including healthcare, education, high technology, government, media and hosting. The findings suggest that the high cost of storage purchases is diluting the benefits of server virtualization.

Coraid Briefing Note: Why Not Ethernet over Ethernet

2011-01-28T15:01:47+00:00

Coraid has a very simple question to ask. Instead of converting a fibre channel protocol to run over an ethernet signal, as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) does, or converting SCSI commands to run over Ethernet, as iSCSI does - both of which use IP - why not use raw Ethernet frames as ATA over Ethernet (AoE) does? As Coraid’s CEO, Kevin Brown puts it, “TCP/IP is great when I need to send an email around the world but if I need to send storage traffic to the next rack it creates too much overhead”.

Coraid and Virteva Partner for Midmarket Cloud Offering

2011-01-14T19:35:14+00:00

Coraid, which specializes in SAN solutions, popped up over at The VAR Guy back in March 2010, when it was touting its new Ethernet SAN Solution. Now, Coraid is taking that solution and rolling it into a partnership with Virteva, an MSP that’s looking to accelerate private cloud platforms.

Coraid, Virteva join to provide cloud onramp services to mid-market

2011-01-13T19:39:53+00:00

Coraid Inc., a developer of Ethernet SAN solutions, announced Thursday a cloud storage partnership with Virteva, a Twin Cities-based IT consulting and Managed Service Provider (MSP), to both resell Coraid and utilize EtherDrive storage within the Virteva Private Cloud platform. Virteva cites the scalability, performance, and simplicity of Coraid's Ethernet SAN as key advantages over legacy storage solutions.

Dynamic Quest Leverages Virtualization To Kickstart Cloud Adoption

2011-01-10T22:20:41+00:00

Dynamic Quest, a former solution provider turned managed data center provider, is turning virtualized customer environments into cloud computing opportunities.

Venture Investors Cluster Around Storage Start-Ups

2011-01-03T23:14:48+00:00

Virtualization is pushing traditional data-storage systems past their breaking point, and venture capitalists are betting that so-called clustered storage technologies will finally have their day.

The storage network for the rest of us

2010-11-22T18:41:10+00:00

A 6 year old storage company you’ve never heard of got a $25 million VC injection last week. That’s big money. The promise: the lowest-cost and highest performance storage network in the world. Is this the storage network for the rest of us?

Coraid lands $25m funding whopper

2010-11-16T20:56:48+00:00

Venture capital funds have bet big on storage underdog Coraid, gambling – to the tune of $25,000,000 – that its new management can build a successful business out of its low-cost and simple Ethernet access storage. That is a huge bet.

The Daily Start-Up: ‘Pouncing’ On 3Par’s Competitor

2010-11-15T19:41:28+00:00

About a month after its portfolio company 3Par sold to Hewlett-Packard for $2.4 billion, Menlo Ventures led a $25 million Series B round for 3Par competitor Coraid, whose appliances enable companies to build a storage-area network using Ethernet.

Buoyed by Success of 3PAR, Menlo Leads Round for Cloud-Based Storage Company Coraid

2010-11-15T19:37:50+00:00

Fresh off of its sale of storage provider 3PAR to Hewlett-Packard, Menlo Ventures is backing Coraid Inc., a cloud-based storage solutions provider.

The Redwood City, Calif.-based company announced this morning that it has raised a $25 million Series B investment led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Allegis Capital and Azure Capital Partners. Coraid, which develops Ethernet-based storage products, previously raised a $10 million Series A round from Azure and Allegis in late 2009.

Avaya Launches Virtualization Strategy

2010-11-12T18:35:35+00:00

Communications systems specialist Avaya Data Solutions announced the launch of Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture (VENA), a data networking architecture designed to provide an end-to-end connection from the desktop to the data center. The new architecture features a ‘Virtual Services Fabric’ that spans the network and enables one-touch provisioning for a range of capabilities provided by Virtual Services Networks.

Avaya Introduces Virtual Networking Architecture

2010-11-11T16:32:21+00:00

Avaya has launched a data networking architecture aimed at assisting enterprises utilizing virtualization and other collaborative technologies to meet the growing demand for new content and business collaboration applications in and between data centers and campuses.

Avaya Unveils Virtualization Plans

2010-11-10T18:36:54+00:00

Avaya has launched a new data networking architecture that the company says helps enterprises reap the benefits of virtualization in a more simplified and cost-effective manner. This technology utilizes a new, end-to-end enterprise-wide architecture designed to help CIOs and IT departments meet the surging demand for new content and business collaboration applications

Avaya unveils switching blueprint for virtual data centers

2010-11-10T18:28:31+00:00

Avaya this week unveiled software enhancements to its switches designed to allow users to optimize the network for business applications and services through virtualization.

Coraid Announces “Zero-Hour” Support Service

2010-11-05T22:34:22+00:00

Coraid Inc., developer of Ethernet SAN solutions with more than 1,200 customers worldwide, unveiled Coraid Zero-Hour Support, a service offering that provides on-site hot-spare EtherDrive storage appliances for rapid remediation of hardware failures in mission-critical environments.

eWEEK: 16 Hot Companies Running Under the Radar

2010-10-13T00:06:23+00:00

As a matter of routine, eWEEK reporters and editors talk to companies and analysts virtually every day. As a result, we often come across a lot of fresh new ideas—or at least new takes—on conventional IT, whether it's in the data center, on your desk or in your pocket. This slide show highlights a number of companies that at least one eWEEK reporter sees as pushing the bar higher in several different markets.

SVSJ Business Journal: People On the Move

2010-10-08T00:04:46+00:00

Redwood City-based Coraid Inc. said Bob Kavner joined its board. He is the former CFO of AT&T and CEO of OnCommand Corp. He was also chairman of the board of IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco Systems Inc. in 2007, and chairman of Overture Services until the company was sold to Yahoo Inc. in 2003. He has served on a number of other company boards.

Bio-IT world: Re-Defining Storage for the Next Generation

2010-09-29T00:02:01+00:00

David Dooling, assistant director of informatics at The Genome Center at Washington University is not mincing words. But he’s not totally throwing storage vendors under the bus either. “The issue is that it’s not a single problem. It’s not just transferring data off the instrument. It’s not just doing analysis. It’s not just storing data long term. It’s not just archiving it off to some lower cost solution after a certain amount of time. It’s not just high performance. It’s not just reliability. It’s all of those things.”

Musings of Rodos: Coraid

2010-09-07T23:32:47+00:00

You meet some interesting vendors on the show floor at VMworld. One I ran into was Coraid, who have an interesting idea of not using Fibre Channel or iSCSI as the transport for storage connectivity, instead they use ATA over Ethernet (AoE). Certainly something I had not heard of before, but with all the noise around FCoE and FCoTR why not AoE.

Storage Newsletter: Coraid: “Buy a Petabyte, Get a Petabyte”

2010-09-03T23:34:00+00:00

Program first adopted by U.S. Department of Defense for 2PB private cloud under $1 million
Coraid Inc., developer of Ethernet SAN solutions with more than 1,200 customers, unveiled its Buy a Petabyte, Get a Petabyte program at VMworld 2010.

Enterprise Storage Forum: VMworld Storage Product Highlights: Round 3

2010-09-03T23:32:00+00:00

VMware’s VMworld conference had the storage world buzzing with a spate of product announcements over the course of the week. The first installment of our storage product roundup from this week’s show focused on the cloud, file-based storage and iSCSI. The second recapped the data protection, backup and recovery, business continuity and disaster recovery products unveiled at the show

Network World: Storage Alert

2010-09-02T00:00:17+00:00

Coraid also last Wednesday announced the EtherDrive SRX4200, a new SATA, SAS or SSD drive array targeted at high-performance cloud and enterprise data centers.

Storage Asia: Coraid moves EtherDrive to the cloud

2010-09-01T23:36:29+00:00

Coraid Inc. is taking its EtherDrive product line to the cloud. The vendor today launched the largest version of its enterprise SRX line, the EtherDrive SRX4200, and released a RESTful storage management interface enabling automation and scripting to make EtherDrive systems appropriate for cloud storage.

CRN: Hot Management, Data Protection Products at VMWorld

2010-08-30T23:39:26+00:00

Redwood City, Calif.-based Coraid’s new SRX4200 is a high-density, scale-out Ethernet SAN array aimed at high-performance cloud and enterprise data centers. The 4U storage appliance packs a mix of 36 SATA, SAS or solid-state drives with performance of up to 1,800 MBps. Each SRX4200 supports 72 TBs of capacity with today's 2-TB SATA drives and up to 108 TBs with future 3-TB drives, enabling more than a petabyte of storage in each data center rack. It also includes a Representational State Transfer (REST) storage management interface for managingdistributed systems using simple HTTP, XML or application-based commands. Pricing starts at less than $600 per TB.

Global Print Monitor: Coraid Unveils High-Density Ethernet SAN Array for Cloud Storage

2010-08-26T23:53:47+00:00

Coraid® Inc., a leading developer of Ethernet SAN solutions with more than 1,200 customers worldwide, today unveiled its high-density Ethernet SAN array, the EtherDrive® SRX4200. The new array is designed for high-performance cloud and enterprise data centers, packing a mix of 36 SATA, SAS, or SSD drives into a four rack-unit chassis. In addition, Coraid has released a RESTful storage management interface enabling cloud automation and scripting for the SRX4200, and this capability will also be available for other EtherDrive products.

InfoStor: Coraid upgrades AoE arrays

2010-08-26T23:49:55+00:00

Coraid's EtherDrive SAN arrays combine Ethernet connectivity with SATA, SAS or solid-state disk (SSD) drives through the use of the open, lightweight AoE network storage protocol. The AoE protocol transports ATA disk commands over Ethernet without TCP/IP overhead.

Storage Bytes Now: Coraid unveils new SAN array

2010-08-26T23:43:02+00:00

Coraid on Wednesday announced the EtherDrive SRX4200, a new SATA, SAS or SSD drive array targeted at high-performance cloud and enterprise data centers. The SRX4200 has performance of as much as 1,800MB/sec. and has multiple 10Gb Ethernet connections. Each SRX4200 has a maximum capacity of 108TB. In addition, Coraid announced an RESTful management interface for enabling cloud automation and scripting. Coraid’s Ethernet SAN runs on Layer 2 Ethernet, eliminating complex layers of legacy Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage. The new SRX4200 is available now.

Enterprise Storage: Coraid Doubles Density of Ethernet SANs

2010-08-25T23:59:15+00:00

Startup SAN maker Coraid unveiled a new ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) storage array that boasts a 50 percent capacity increase over previous models and features a set of RESTful automation interfaces for cloud storage environments.

Enterprise Storage Forum: Coraid Doubles Density of Ethernet SANs

2010-08-25T23:58:59+00:00

SearchStorage: Coraid EtherDrive array targets cloud storage

2010-08-25T23:58:53+00:00