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NEWS - 16 Aug 2005 |
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Coraid’s EtherDrive Storage Appliance Wins LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award for Best Storage Solution
SAN CLEMENTE, CALIF., Aug. 16, 2005 - Coraid was honored at the
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo last week as the winner of the Product
Excellence Award for Best Data Backup or Storage Solution. Coraid's
SATA+RAID EtherDrive Storage Appliance was selected as an innovative
Storage Area Networking technology that offers unique value for the
open source community.
EtherDrive Storage uses the open AoE (ATA over Ethernet) protocol which
is now included in the Linux 2.6 kernel. It provides Linux with the
simplest, most efficient and lowest cost means to access networked
storage.
"Coraid is very proud to receive this award in the highly competitive
field of storage appliances," said Jim Kemp CEO of Coraid, Inc.
"EtherDrive storage has been validated and deployed by businesses,
universities and government agencies throughout the world where
massively scaleable and affordable storage is required."
The LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards are the industry standard for
innovation in the Linux community. IDG World Expo honors the developers
of outstanding products, which represent the very best technology
available to users of Linux and open source.
Coraid offers three EtherDrive storage product categories:
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Storage Appliances - provide a shared Ethernet interface for multiple
disks. These simple to use appliances provide a bridge between the
disks and Ethernet using AoE and RAID. Each disk is individually
accessible on the network (JBOD) or can be configured into RAID sets
presenting one or more logical EtherDrive storage devices to the
network.
- Storage Blades -
provide a separate Ethernet interface for each disk. The blade's
processor (one processor/disk) provides a bridge between a single disk
and Ethernet using AoE.
- RAID Appliances
- provide RAID abstraction and present logical EtherDrive storage
devices assembled from EtherDrive Storage Appliances or EtherDrive
Storage Blades.
About Coraid
Coraid designs and manufactures innovative networked storage
appliances. The "power of simple" makes its storage products
affordable. Coraid developed the open ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) protocol
which is used by EtherDrive storage products. The powerful and
efficient protocol leverages the cost advantages of Ethernet to provide
true networked storage. For more information please contact Coraid at
877-548-7200 and visit http://www.coraid.com.
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Contact:
Daly-Swartz PR for Coraid
Jeffrey Swartz, 949-492-0075
jeffreyswartz@dsprel.com
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