Coraid EtherCloud Storage Manager

Coraid EtherCloud Storage Manager is a software-based Storage Control Plane that provides streamlined, automated management to provision, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot Coraid storage resources.

Coraid and Arista: Scale-Out Storage and Networking for Public and Private Cloud Builders

Coraid and Arista work together to provide a scalable networked storage solution that allows businesses to effectively deploy cloud and virtualized infrastructures to manage their rapidly growing data while keeping total costs under control.

VDAS: DAS Simplicity with the Power of SAN*

Wouldn't it be great to get the best qualities of direct-attached storage and shared storage without the complexity and cost of Fibre Channel or iSCSI? Join us for a brief 30 minute webinar and learn how Coraid's VDAS solution combines the best of both worlds.

Gartner Magic Quadrant Report for General-Purpose Disk Arrays*

Coraid positioned as a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant report for General-Purpose Disk Arrays 2013

Siemens MR Magnet Technology: Coraid Ethernet SAN Delivers Reliable Business Continuity

With its legacy iSCSI storage unable to provide a reliable backup and recovery position, Siemens MR Magnet Technology needed a high performance yet scalable storage platform to seamlessly integrate with its CommVault software and tape archive.

Coraid Virtual DAS (VDAS) Technology

Coraid’s VDAS technology allows storage administrators to marry the simplicity of DAS with the flexibility, resilience and efficiency of scale-out networked storage, while eliminating tradeoffs.

Coraid EtherCloud Overview

A demonstration of how Coraid EtherCloud allows administrators to deliver storage as tiers of services with one-click storage provisioning.

ZFS: How to Break Up with Your Old NAS*

In this technically-focused webinar, we discuss the rich feature set and powerful capabilities that ZFS offers, and how it can be deployed on top of Ethernet-based block storage to create a truly scalable storage system.

ESG White Paper: The Need For – and Value of – Software-Defined Storage*

Software-defined storage is an architecture for those who need scalable, flexible, and automated storage operations to support their dynamic application requirements. Learn how the storage layer and the network fabric connecting it to the compute layer can be completely programmable and controllable through automation.

Coraid and BigSwitch: The Power of Infrastructure Programmability in the Storage Network

Coraid and Big Switch Networks work together to bring dynamic flexibility and simplicity to network storage.

The Fundamentals of Software-Defined Storage

The software-defined data center uses commodity, scale-out hardware building blocks to create pools of compute, network and storage resources that are abstracted and delivered as tiers of services that can be configured, managed and controlled entirely through software.

Coraid and CommVault: Comprehensive Data Protection

Learn how the capabilities of CommVault’s backup solution are well matched by the reliability, simplicity, and scalability of Coraid Ethernet storage solutions.

Storage Architectures for the Cloud*

In this webinar we discuss how software-defined storage can help transform storage into a flexible, distributed system built on commodity hardware and deliver one-click provisioning and self-service of storage resources.

IDC: Coraid Vendor Profile*

IDC reviews Coraid’s technological capabilities and product portfolio.

Next-Generation Storage Architectures for the Cloud

Kevin Brown, CEO of Coraid, interviewed at CloudExpo West 2012 by Jeremy Geelan of SYS-CON.tv.

Federal Webinar: Storage Made Simple*

Learn how your agency can take advantage of the massive throughput, simple scalability, elastic storage architecture, and virtualization optimization of Coraid storage solutions.

Meet Your Big Data Needs

Kevin Brown, CEO of Coraid, interviewed at Cloud Expo New York 2012 by Erik Linask, Group Editorial Director of TMC.

Coraid EtherCloud Enables Automation and Programmability

Carl Wright, EVP of Worldwide Field Operations for Coraid, interviewed at VMWorld 2012 in Barcelona by W. Curtis Preston, Truth in IT.

Customer Story: Legg Mason Capital Management

James Hancock, Director of Infrastructure Technology at Legg Mason Capital Management, discusses how Coraid provides a simple, cost-effective, enterprise-class solution that meets the company's high performance and uptime demands.

Customer Story: NotreFamille.com

Nicolas Menoux, CTO of Notrefamille.com, discusses how Coraid provides an enterprise-class solution that improves throughput to their servers, reduces complexity, and makes future growth simple and cost-effective.

Customer Story: Shutterstock

Chris Fischer, Director of Web & IT Operations at Shutterstock, discusses how Coraid solutions take away the mystery of what’s happening with the storage of the company’s massive collection of of images and video clips.

Customer Story: RackForce Networks

Tim Dufour, President & CEO of Rackforce Networks, discusses how Coraid solutions provide the ultimate in flexibility and performance for this multi-service, multi-tenant ICT service provider.

Coraid and Veeam: Redefining Backup and Replication

Learn how Coraid and Veeam work together to deliver an easy, fast, and affordable Ethernet SAN backup and disaster recovery solution.

451 Research: Coraid is Latest to Embrace ‘Software-Defined Storage’ as it Unveils EtherCloud

Simon Robinson of  writes about how the Coraid EtherCloud SDS platform offers a simple method for delivering highly programmable scale-out storage for Web applications and cloud-based services.

451 Research: Coraid Eyes Cloud Storage Opportunity, Grows Revenue Sixfold Over Two Years

Henry Balthazar of 451 Research writes about how Coraid ATA-over-Ethernet-based storage systems enable the creation of public and private storage clouds with SLAs and REST API-based resource allocation.

Coraid for Hadoop: Scale Out Storage for Big Data Analytics

Learn how organizations can simplify Hadoop operations and maintenance by deploying their Hadoop infrastructure in conjunction with Coraid Ethernet storage.

Coraid and VMware: Transforming Business Continuity

Learn how Coraid and VMware work together to provide an Ethernet SAN solution that is optimized for virtualization.

Coraid Overview Video

A 2-minute introduction to Coraid network storage solutions.

Coraid and RackForce Discuss Software-Defined Storage

Kevin Brown – CEO, Coraid, and Tim DuFour – CEO, RackForce, discuss software-defined storage with Dave Vellante at VMworld 2012

ESG: Coraid EtherCloud Review Video

Mark Peters from ESG discusses Coraid EtherCloud and the new industry trend toward software-defined storage.

Coraid ZX: Petabyte Scale NAS*

Join us for a technical look at Coraid ZX, a high-performance unified storage solution powered by Oracle Solaris ZFS and designed to work with Coraid EtherDrive scale-out block storage.

Press:Here Episode 126 – Big Data

Press:Here – the NBC weekly roundtable of interviews with Silicon Valley CEOs and entrepreneurs – talks with Kevin Brown, Coraid CEO, about how Coraid helps the world store a staggering amount of information.

Storage 3.0: How Innovation is Transforming the Storage Landscape*

Watch this webinar to learn how easy it is to implement Storage 3.0 architectures, and how other companies in your industry are able to utilize Storage 3.0 as the backbone of their dynamic public and private clouds.

Ethernet SAN: A Comparison of AoE, FC and iSCSI Protocols*

This webinar provides a technical comparison of each protocol, along with a detailed discussion of their strengths and weaknesses.

Coraid EtherDrive SRX: Block Storage

Coraid EtherDrive SRX is a family of scale-out block storage appliances that uses Ethernet SAN technology to provide low latency, high bandwidth data transfer.

Coraid ZX: High-Performance NAS

Coraid ZX is a family of NAS servers that combines an innovative and feature-rich file system with scale-out, massively parallel Ethernet SAN technology.

Dynamic Virtualization for the Public Sector*

Watch this webinar to learn how storage infrastructure impacts agency adoption of cloud architectures, which legacy systems are ill suited for deployment and the benefits agencies can gain using Ethernet SAN technology.

Taming Unfettered Data Growth with Scale-out Object Storage*

A scale-out object storage solution built on Coraid EtherDrive and Caringo CAStor technologies offers the ability to efficiently scale storage capacity to Petabytes with simplified management and low total cost of ownership.

Accelerate Video Production*

The demands of DPX, 2K, 4K, HD and 3D production work flows are causing storage costs to balloon. Learn about production companies using scale out storage solutions to accelerate their video and film projects.

Coraid Corporate Overview

Five Myths of Private Clouds

Cloud computing offers tremendous promise for IT organizations. Understanding the truth behind these common myths will help IT teams move more confidently toward their Private Cloud.

Coraid EtherDrive VSX: Storage Virtualization

Coraid EtherDrive VSX is a family of storage virtualization appliances that offers features such as mirroring, snapshots, clones, replication, thin provisioning, and wide striping.

Coraid EtherDrive HBAs

Coraid certified SAS, SATA and SSD drives and Coraid Ethernet HBAs are designed to provide maximum performance and flexibility.

Storage Infrastructure for the Cloud

Service providers need to deploy infrastructure that has superior price-performance characteristics, allows for easy automation and management, is flexible and can scale in a cost-effective manner as needs grow.

Open Storage Architectures*

Here we dissect the data center architecture of two large companies and show how an open storage architecture let them pick best-in-class file systems and object stores according to their application needs.

Sony Music: Scale-Out File Share

Sony Music Australia, Australia’s largest integrated music company, has deployed Coraid EtherDrive storage to power its online Australian website Bandit.fm, a high volume, online, digital music delivery system.

Digital Surveillance: EtherDrive Storage Solutions

Fueled by the shift to higher resolution cameras, the need for longer data retention times and the reality of flat budgets, Coraid EtherDrive storage is redefining storage economics to meet the need of digital surveillance.

Andago: XenServer Virtualization

Global software developer, Andago, selects Coraid EtherDrive storage area network (SAN) to share data and to enable all the functionality of XenServer, including live migration of virtual machines.

Ethernet SAN for Server Virtualization Environments

Coraid EtherDrive storage is purpose-built to optimize virtual storage networking. Learn how it leverages Ethernet’s low cost, simplicity, and performance to maximize server virtualization ROI.

Atlantic Media: VMware

By turning to Coraid to build an Ethernet SAN, Atlantic Media found an affordable shared storage solution for their VMware virtual server environment that was easier to use and outperformed FC and iSCSI alternatives.

Duplo International: Microsoft Hyper-V

Duplo International, worldwide provider of finishing and printing equipment, turned to Coraid and found an enterprise-class solution that outperformed Fibre Channel and iSCSI alternatives for a fraction of the cost.

Maximizing Your Virtual Infrastructure with Scale-out Storage*

With the release of vSphere 5, new features promise to simplify many day-to-day administrative tasks, but your storage architecture needs to be ready for this new operating model.

Palmer’s College: VMware

Palmer's College decided to virtualize its datacenter to save power and cooling. With a limited budget the College turned to Coraid to deploy a shared storage solution for its VMware vSphere virtualization environment.

Notrefamille.com: Microsoft SQL Database

Notrefamille.com turned to Coraid to build an Ethernet SAN for their Microsoft SQL database and found a solution that improved throughput to servers and made future growth simple and cost-effective.

Integration of Microsoft Hyper-V and Coraid Ethernet SAN Storage

Coraid EtherDrive Series disk arrays integration with the robust server virtualization offered by the Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization platform provide enterprises of all sizes with flexible, high performing storage.

Storage Switzerland: Scalability Demands of Virtual Workloads

George Crump, Senior Analyst at Storage Switzerland writes about as the number virtual machines per host increases new levels of scale-out storage are required to match the agility of server virtualization.

iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel SANs: Three Reasons Not To Choose Either*

This paper explores the benefits of Ethernet SAN and why you shouldn’t have to choose between iSCSI and Fibre Channel to address your storage needs.

Digital Media: Ethernet SAN Storage Solutions

This brief explains how Coraid EtherDrive provides unmatched price/performance and virtually unlimited growth in capacity to meet storage requirements of the latest film scanning technology.

ESG: Coraid EtherDrive Storage is ESG Lab Proven – Summary Report*

This ESG Lab Review summarizes the highlights from hands-on testing of Coraid’s EtherDrive in August, 2010 and outlines 2011 product enhancements and capabilities.

ESG: Coraid EtherDrive Review Video

Mark Peters from ESG reviews Coraid EtherDrive, an Ethernet SAN storage alternative to Fibre Channel and iSCSI systems.

Ethernet SAN Storage Virtualization: EtherDrive VSX

Read about Coraid’s new class of storage appliance that provides advanced storage virtualization for an entire Ethernet SAN, allowing IT administrators to respond to complex storage needs quickly and reliably.

ESG Lab Report: Coraid Ethernet SAN Platform*

This full report by ESG Lab discusses hands-on testing of the Coraid Ethernet SAN platform, including performance benchmarks, cost comparisons, and VMware interoperability.

ESG: The Future of Storage in a Virtualized Data Center

A virtual server can be set up in minutes; yet it takes days even weeks to configure the storage. Read this ESG Market Report about how Ethernet SAN is easier to use and faster to deploy than Fibre Channel and iSCSI.

Storage Switzerland: High Performing Virtualized Workloads Require a New Storage Protocol

Read George Crump, Senior Analyst for Storage Switzerland, LLC report about virtualization workloads and how they have different storage demands in terms of performance, scalability and cost.

Storage Switzerland: Coraid EtherDrive SRX-Series Storage Systems*

A new category of Ethernet SAN storage solutions enables a customer hat-trick, simplicity, reliability and performance. Read this briefing report by George Crump, Senior Analyst at Storage Switzerland, LLC.

High Performance Computing: Scale-Out SAN Solutions

This paper examines why the unique and growing challenges of High Performance Computing (HPC) is a natural fit for Coraid’s Ethernet SAN scale-out storage.

The Clipper Group Navigator Report: Coraid Ethernet SAN*

This report by The Clipper Group discusses the Ethernet SAN protocol used by Coraid and how Coraid has simplified SAN storage for a wide range of applications.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: Leveraging the Power of Ethernet

Learn how Coraid EtherDrive storage can deliver 5-8x price performance relative to legacy storage, providing an ideal platform for Hosted Virtual Desktops and a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

Storage Switzerland: Storage Evolution – FC SAN, IP SAN, Ethernet SAN

Yes, there’s a difference between IP and Ethernet. Read this insightful report written by George Crump, Senior Analyst at Storage Switzerland, LLC.

National Human Genome Research Institute

The National Human Genome Research Institute in Rockville, Maryland has evolved their storage to address the unique and growing challenges of handling complicated image and mathematical analysis workloads.

NASA: Arkeia Network Backup

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Ground System Development Team selected Coraid’s EtherDrive SAN storage array as the disk storage component to host their Mission Operation data.

Glossary

A glossary of terms used in network storage systems.

FAQs

Answers to common questions about Coraid Ethernet storage solutions.

Coraid Technical Documentation

A list of Coraid resource guides and best practice documentation.