- Coraid
Infobox_Company | company_name = Coraid, Inc.
company_
company_type = Private
company_slogan = The Linux Storage People.
foundation =2000
location =Athens, Georgia
key_people = CTO: Brantley Coile
CEO: James Kemp
industry =Computer Storage
products = NAS, AoE| homepage = [http://www.coraid.com/ www.coraid.com]
[http://www.coraid.com Coraid, Inc.] ofAthens, GA designs and manufactures networked storage appliances. Coraid's developers created and maintain the Linux kernel's aoe driver. Coraid developed the ATA over Ethernet network protocol.The AoE (
ATA-over-Ethernet ) protocol provides a means for a block storage device to be connected directly to an Ethernet network. An AoE device can be a single physical disk or a logical device made up of multiple disks. Logical AoE devices may be backed by redundant (e.g., RAID) storage.The simplicity of AoE allows low-cost hardware to serve as networked storage devices. Using ethernet network topology to isolate the non-routable AoE traffic is an alternative to the more complex security strategies used for managing other types of networked storage.
Related
* The ATA over Ethernet initiator is part of the mainline Linux kernel [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git;a=commit;h=3db119285eae7b420bdccf379f0e06b0c1166c2b since 2.6.11]
* [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8149 Kernel Korner - ATA Over Ethernet: Putting Hard Drives on the LAN]
* [http://www.linux-mag.com/content/view/2069/2307/ The ATA over Ethernet (AoE) Protocol]
* [http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=469 Ben Rockwood: ATA Vs. iSCSI ]
* [http://linux.sys-con.com/read/117705.htm LinuxWorld 2005 "Best Storage Solution"]
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