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Coraid EtherDrive solutions work seamlessly in your environment to delivery unprecedented price-performance, flexibility, and simplicity. EtherDrive was designed specifically for modern application environments, without the mainframe-era baggage of legacy SAN solutions.
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VirtualizationVirtualization has transformed the data center and is changing all aspects of IT operations – including greater demands on storage and availability, and unexpected bottlenecks in performance. Current SAN technologies (Fibre Channel, iSCSI) are too expensive, too complex, and poorly adapted for dynamic virtualization workloads. EtherDrive was purpose-built for these challenges. Coraid has radically simplified virtual storage networking with AoE (ATA over Ethernet) which runs on top of Ethernet, enabling unique advantages for virtualized environments: Massive bandwidth to disks, less head contention, more independent disk heads, unlimited scalability (>60k nodes). |
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Cloud StorageCoraid is popular among hosting companies for obvious reasons – commodity storage economics, high performance and extreme flexibility are mission critical. Because ISPs and SSPs are hosting other people's data, service level requirements must be met at all times, requiring assurance of performance and reliability in their SAN storage solutions. This industry is quickly discovering that EtherDrive is not only fast, reliable and easier to manage, it allows them to scale non-disruptively as their business evolves. |
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High Performance Computing
The unique and growing challenges of High Performance Computing (HPC) and High Performance Virtual Computing (HPVC) environments are a natural fit for Coraid's scale-out architecture. Coraid customers have employed EtherDrive in large-scale supercomputing environments for human genome research, energy research, and government security applications. |
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Video/Network SurveillanceStorage for video and network surveillance is a high-growth market. This is another industry equally sensitive to costs and high throughput rates – with just-in-type capacity growth options. In the rapid shift from analog to digital video, a huge market has been created seemingly overnight for solutions such as EtherDrive, with affordable, high performance scale-out architectures. High-definition digital cameras are producing between 4-5x the amount of data as standard cameras. (Example: 100HD cameras can easily produce 300TB per week, quickly moving into the petabyte range.) Administrators of these systems are seeking less expensive, highly scalable storage where trade-offs in retention times are not necessary just to accommodate budgets. |
