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Coraid, Inc. 
Type Private Industry Data Storage Founded 2000 Founder(s) Brantley Coile Headquarters Redwood City, California, Athens, Georgia Area served Worldwide Key people CEO: Kevin Brown
Chairman: Audrey MacLean
CTO: Brantley Coile
EVP WW Sales: Carl Wright
VP Sales: Josh Leslie
VP Engineering: Alan Beltran
VP Marketing: John GilmartinProducts EtherDrive SRX, EtherDrive VSX, EtherFlash, NAS, AoE, SAN Website www.coraid.com Coraid, Inc. is a storage vendor that provides Ethernet SAN solutions, headquartered in Redwood City, California[1].
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Company history
The company was founded by Brantley Coile, who previously invented the Cisco PIX firewall and Cisco LocalDirector products.[2] Coile began the R&D phase of the company in 2000 after leaving Cisco, and developed the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) protocol, which enables storage networking using raw Ethernet frames for transport. The AoE protocol was released to the Linux community, and has been included in the Linux kernel since 2005[3][4], starting with version 2.6.11.
From 2004-2009, the company primarily sold its EtherDrive family of storage arrays into the Linux market. In 2009, the company entered the virtualization storage market with support for VMware ESX environments.[5] In January 2010, the company announced its first round of institutional financing, $10 million from two venture capital funds[6][7], as well as new management and an advisory board. The company also moved its headquarters to Redwood City, CA in early 2010. In November 2010, Coraid secured an additional $25 million in Series B funding.[8]. A $50 million Series C was closed in November 2011.
Products
A Coraid EtherDrive storage cluster (SAN)
The company has over 1,500 customers in sectors including aerospace, manufacturing, media, telecommunications, healthcare, hosting, and government.[9] The company’s Ethernet SAN solutions based on AoE compete with Fibre Channel and iSCSI products using block-based storage.
In September, 2011 Coraid introduced their EtherFlash™ solution at VMworld 2011. Coraid's EtherFlash combines high performance flash drives with the scalable architecture of EtherDrive, delivering low-latency access to flash drives containing up to several petabytes of storage.[10]
External links
References
- ^ Hoovers Profile: Coraid, Inc.
- ^ Coraid Management Team Page. Coraid Web Site.
- ^ Kernel Korner - ATA Over Ethernet: Putting Hard Drives on the LAN. Linux Journal.
- ^ The ATA over Ethernet (AoE) Protocol Linux Magazine.
- ^ Coraid, Inc. Joins the VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program Coraid Press Release.
- ^ Coraid Gets $10 Million Funding To Embrace Storage Channels ChannelWeb.
- ^ Startup with all start backers aims to disrupt storage market Fortune
- ^ Cloud startup Coraid raises $25 million Reuters
- ^ Coraid Customer List Coraid Web Site.
- ^ Coraid EtherFlash Delivers Scale-Out SSD Performance Coraid Web Site
Categories:- Athens, Georgia
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