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Editor's note:- Coraid was
a company in the NAS market which pioneered its own style of storage connection
technology using ethernet. (See notes below for more.) The original Coraid
company ceased operations in 2015 but the brand and the core technology
ideas and IP were acquired and resurrected in 2016 by the original founder
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Coraid - circa 2011 Coraid's
SATA+RAID EtherDrive Storage platform is an award-winning technology that is
significantly driving down the cost of SAN storage worldwide. Coraid designs and
manufactures innovative, affordable networked storage appliances based the open
ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) storage protocol. AoE leverages all of the advantages of
Ethernet to provide true networked storage at the best possible value. Coraid
was named as InfoWorld's BOSSIE Award for Best of Open Source In Storage in 2007
and won the 2005 Product Excellence Award for Best Data Backup and Storage
Solution at the Linux World Expo in San Francisco. For more information visit
http://www.coraid.com
See also:-
Coraid
- editorial mentions on STORAGEsearch.com,
Coraid
is now officially toast (April 21, 2015)
- editor's comments:- October 2011 - among
other things Coraid makes NAS
systems which run ATA storage commands over ethernet using a protocol called
AoE - which was invented by
the company's founder - Brantley
Coile - and has low latency.
In my view AoE hasn't achieved
wide market acceptance - and many vendors say it's not suitable for heavy duty
enterprise apps because of reliability and security issues - but the company
- which has attracted over $85 million so far in VC funding - says it has 1,500
customers in in 45 countries.
For another view about the company - see
George
Crump's briefing note- re Coraid (Jan 2011). |
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from Coraid - 2017 perspective |
Editor:- August 2, 2017 -
AoE (ATA-over-Ethernet) is
one of those ideas from
storage history
(AoE news coverage here on the mouse site started in 2003) which flash into
the news pages for a while and then fade away.
There's a new
article
on StorageNewsletter - interview with Brantley Coile, CEO and Founder, Coraid
- which takes you into the thinking behind the original concept and brings you
up to date with what his new company is doing now.
Among other things
in the article - Brantley
Coile talks about the mistaken business direction which Coraid took to
grow revenue after its successes in 2010 to 2012...
"...then
management made a huge mistake: they decided to change the operating systems.
Instead of using the Bell Labs technology I had used, and still use, they wanted
to switch to Solaris. Companies like Coraid can't afford to change OSes no
matter what the reason. It confuses customers. It means completely changing
developers. It stops new features as the new team relearns all the lessons the
old team had already discovered. Sales sagged. Funding disappeared." ...read
the article
See also:-
VCs in storage ,
Surviving the
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