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CRN: 2010 Storage Superstars: 25 You Need To Know
22 June 2010
Advances in storage hardware, software, management, and virtualization technology could never have taken place without the dedication, nay, the fanaticism, of a dedicated group of Storage Superstars.

Storage Newsletter: Coraid Sold Drive Arrays to 20 Colleges and Universities
2 June 2010
Coraid Inc. announced sales of EtherDrive storage arrays to more than 20 higher education customers around the world so far in 2010.

Network World: Coraid rolls out NAS gateway products
26 May 2010
Coraid, which relaunched earlier this year with an AoE (ATA over Ethernet) appliance line, last Wednesday announced the EtherDrive Z-Series NAS appliance. The appliance combines the ZFS file system with Coraid's AoE technology and includes support for a long line of features — 10 Gigabit Ethernet, in-line deduplication, replication, snapshots, compression, automatic tiering, continuous data protection, file search and thin provisioning. The EtherDrive Z-Series is available in two models – the Z2000 and ZX3000. The Z2000 has four cores, 32GB of RAM and either eight 1G Ethernet or four 10G Ethernet ports.

SearchStorage: Coraid EtherDrive SRX Series goes upscale with Support for SSDs and 10 GbE
23 March 2010
Coraid Inc. today launched a series of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) SANs that support SAS, SATA and solid-state drives (SSDs) on the same system, which the company is targeting for highly virtualized and cloud storage environments.

GOVIT Journal: TVAR Solutions Adds Coraid Etherdrive to GSA Schedule
9 March 2010
Coraid, a developer of scale-out storage solutions with more than 1,100 customers worldwide, on Tuesday announced that the Coraid EtherDrive product family has been added to TVAR Solutions' GSA Schedule (GS-35F-0438T). Coraid storage solutions have already been deployed throughout a range of civilian, military, and intelligence agencies, and inclusion on TVAR Solutions' GSA Schedule marks a key milestone in Coraid's expansion within the U.S. Federal market. The company also recently announced a $10 million venture financing and the addition of senior executives.

Cloud Computing Journal: Coraid Unveils Partner Program
9 March 2010
Coraid Inc., a developer of scale-out storage with more than 1,100 customers worldwide, on Tuesday unveiled the Coraid Partner Network, a channel program designed to support business partners delivering Coraid EtherDrive solutions worldwide. The Coraid Partner Network offers IT solution providers with solutions, training, and support to accelerate sales of next-generation Ethernet SAN solutions into the SMB and enterprise virtualization markets.

ChannelInsider: Coraid Takes Efficient, Inexpensive SATA Storage Solution to Channel
4 March 2010
After spending its youth as a provider of storage solutions for Linux shops, Coraid is breaking out with support for multiple virtualization and OS platforms, a top management team and board members, and a new channel chief who says the company will become 100 percent indirect. Coriad's new channel chief hails from VMware and says Coraid's EtherDrive solution is economically disruptive for the storage sector.

ChannelWeb: CRN Blogs: Emerging Vendors
3 March 2010
Why You Should Care: Coraid is aiming to leverage low cost-for-performance technology and a new focus on virtualization to attract more partners and customers.

ComputerWorld: Coraid peeks out of the cloud
3 February 2010
A not-so new startup came out of stealth recently. Coraid, which was founded in 2000, announced that it has a new CEO and new funding and backing.

USA Today: Coraid raises $10M, names CEO
25 January 2010
Coraid Inc. said Monday it raised $10 million in a first round of funding and named Kevin Brown chief executive. The company said the financing came from Palo Alto-based Allegis Capital and from Azure Capital Partners, which has an office in Menlo Park.