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Analyst Reports
- 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.
- Coraid EtherDrive Storage is ESG Lab Proven – New product enhancements reviewed*
This ESG Lab Review summarizes the highlights from hands-on testing of Coraid’s EtherDrive in August, 2010 and outlines new 2011 product enhancements and capabilities.
- ESG Lab Report*
This report by ESG Lab summarizes hands-on testing of Coraid’s Ethernet SAN platform, including performance benchmarks, cost comparisons, and VMware interoperability.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Clipper Group Navigator Report*
Coraid EtherDrive — The Shortest Path to Low-Cost Enterprise SAN Storage
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.- The Future of Storage in a Virtualized Data Center
Today, a virtual server can be set up in minutes; yet it takes days even weeks to configure the storage. IT organizations are looking for a more agile and easier to provision storage solution. Read this ESG Market Report about how Ethernet SAN storage is easier to use and faster to deploy than alternative Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage.
- 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.
Webinars
- On-Demand Webinar - Ethernet SAN: A Comparison of AoE, FC, and iSCSI Protocols (42 min.)
Coraid’s Director of Product Management, Robert Przykucki, answers which protocols are best suited for virtualization and cloud computing environments.
- On-Demand Webinar - Optimize Your Storage for VMware vSphere 5 (50 min.)
With the release of vSphere 5, VMware moves beyond the compute layer to tackle the automation of shared storage. New features like Storage DRS promise to simplify many day-to-day administrative tasks, but your storage architecture needs to be ready for this new operating model. Coraid will share its insights from investigating these exciting new features.
- On-Demand Webinar - The Top 10 Storage Questions of the Year
If you’re like most IT professionals, the beginning of the year is a time for reflecting on the last year, to do an even better job of meeting the new year’s challenges and opportunities. So whether you’re trying to do more with less, or trying to figure out how to meet the demands of a growing business—or both—shouldn’t you arm yourself with some answers to the most commonly asked storage questions of the year?
- Quick Take: Can you count on your VM backup solution? (30 min)
Make the Transformation Complete - Learn Best Practices for Backing Up Virtual Machines
Today’s virtual data centers are often mismatched with their backup systems. Data workloads are running on virtual machines, but their backup and recovery systems are still operating on legacy systems. Such a pairing is like having one foot on a roller blade and the other on crutches-- resulting in poor efficiency and unnecessary complexity.
View our on-demand webinar, Optimizing Your VM Backup Architecture, and watch as we discuss best practices for backing up virtual servers with Veeam software and Coraid storage.
Briefs
- CommVault Backup Solution on Coraid Storage
Learn how the capabilities of CommVault’s backup solution are well matched by the reliability, simplicity, and scalability of Coraid Ethernet SANs.
- Digital Surveillance Solution with Coraid Storage
Digital surveillance is the fastest growing segment of the security industry. Fueled by the shift to higher resolution cameras, the need for longer data retention times and the reality of flat budgets, new storage solutions are required to meet the needs of digital surveillance customers. Read how Coraid EtherDrive storage is redefining storage economics for digital surveillance with a new generation of Ethernet SAN storage.
- 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.
- Ethernet SAN or Fibre Channel SAN
Looking for 5-8x price/performance advantage over Fibre Channel? This technical brief examines the benefits of Ethernet SAN compared to legacy Fibre Channel.
- Ethernet SAN or iSCSI SAN
iSCSI SAN and Ethernet SAN both run on Ethernet, but here is where the similarities end. Find out what is different about Ethernet SAN.
- Ethernet SAN Technology for Digital Media Solution Brief
Digital scanners require fast, scalable storage that can match the ingest performance of the latest state-of-art scanner and scale to store the massive amount of data created by these systems. This Solutions Brief provides detailed information on how the Coraid EtherDrive Ethernet storage array provides unmatched price/performance and virtually unlimited growth in capacity to meet the storage requirements of the latest film scanning technology.
- Leveraging “The Power of Ethernet” for your Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
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.
- Scale-Out SAN for High Performance Computing
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.
White Papers
- Ethernet SAN Storage Virtualization
IT administrators require the ability to allocate storage for any application based on the latest business needs, and to do so non-disruptively, quickly and easily. 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.
- Glossary
Useful glossary of terms used in network storage systems.
- Integration of Microsoft Hyper-V and Coraid Ethernet SAN Storage
The widespread use of the Microsoft® Windows® OS in company data centers allows IT organizations to consider implementing a next-generation virtualized data center based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. 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, scale-out storage built on Layer 2 Ethernet and commodity hardware.
- iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel SANs: Three Reasons Not To Choose Either
Over the past five years storage costs have soared to more than 40% of the IT budget, and data growth is only accelerating. Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage systems are not delivering the price-performance and agility at the storage layer required to keep up with the new virtualized compute layer. IT organizations are forced to make tradeoffs between price-performance and complexity based on their application requirements. The following paper explores a third storage networking technology, Ethernet SAN and why you shouldn't have to choose between iSCSI and Fibre Channel.
Case Studies
- 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.
- 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 Fibre Channel and iSCSI alternatives.
- Duplo International - Microsoft Hyper-V
Duplo International provider of finishing and printing equipment to all types of print operations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, selected Coraid EtherDrive for its Microsoft Hyper-V deployment. By turning to Coraid to build an Ethernet SAN Duplo found an enterprise-class solution that outperformed Fibre Channel and iSCSI alternatives for a fraction of the cost.
- 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, running RHEL4 and Arkeia’s Network Backup software.
- National Human Genome Research Institute
Over the past three years, 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.
- Notrefamille.com - Microsoft SQL Database
Operating multiple web properties including France’s largest genealogy site, Notrefamille.com turned to Coraid to build an Ethernet SAN for their Microsoft SQL database and found an enterprise-class solution that was 25% less expensive than Fibre Channel, improved throughput to their servers, reduced complexity, and made future growth simple and cost-effective.
- 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 high-performance, easy-to-use, and affordable shared storage solution for its VMware vSphere virtualization environment.