Storage Appliance: AoE Storage Moves Out Of The Rack With New Desktop Model
Coraid's ATA-Over-Ethernet Low-Cost Network Storage Tower Now Available
Coraid Inc. today announced the newest member of its low cost, high capacity storage appliances. Coraid delivers true networked storage over standard Ethernet and is based on the innovative open AoE (ATA over Ethernet) protocol. Today, the company is introducing an easy-to-deploy, free standing tower configuration of the popular SR1521 EtherDrive Storage Appliance.
"Not all customers want rack mounted storage equipment, especially in an office environment. The newly configured SR1521T suits those customers that need powerful and scalable network storage readily available at the departmental level," said Coraid CEO Jim Kemp. "A single SR1521T EtherDrive Storage Appliance can provide 11.25TB of shared storage on the network, as your needs grow, you simply add more SR1521T's to the network using standard Ethernet. The introduction of the SR1521T allows us to accommodate users that want the convenience and flexibility of low cost desktop storage".
AoE is a block level storage protocol that is simpler to implement than other SAN technologies and at considerably less cost than iSCSI and FibreChannel solutions. AoE is a non-routed protocol, therefore eliminating the need for TCP/IP processing overhead or expensive network adapters. Servers simply connect to EtherDrive storage appliances using ordinary Ethernet connections. AoE is native in the Linux 2.6 kernel and software drivers are available for Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris, and FreeBSD.
The SR1521T is the newest member of Coraid's EtherDrive Storage product line. The Coraid Storage Tower can hold up to 15 standard 3.5-inch SATA (serial ATA) drives. Hard drives are hot swappable. The SR1521T is available now and is priced at US $4,495. Customers are able to buy disk drives of their choice.
About Coraid, Inc.
Coraid designs and manufactures innovative, networked storage appliances. Coraid developed the open source ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) storage protocol now included in the Linux kernel. The AoE protocol is a scalable, low cost alternative to iSCSI and FibreChannel and is the foundation for EtherDrive storage appliances. Coraid products utilize the cost advantages of Ethernet to provide true-networked storage for well under $1 per Gigabyte. Coraid's SR1520 EtherDrive® Storage platform won the Product Excellence Award for Best Data Backup and Storage Solution at the Linux World Expo 2005 in San Francisco. For more information please contact Coraid at +1-706-548-7200, email sales@coraid.com or visit www.coraid.com.