Coraid and Transcend United Technologies Partner

Coraid Inc. and Transcend United Technologies, LLC, a Pennsylvania-based global IT systems integration and managed services firm, announced a partnership that delivers Ethernet SAN storage for Transcend United cloud services.

Transcend United engages in the assessment, design, configuration and installation of IT and communications infrastructures for organizations in the United States and internationally. The partnership will allow Transcend United to provide a range of cloud services that deliver a shared IT infrastructure.

"Economic and competitive forces are pushing our customers to seek alternatives to better align their IT infrastructure with their business needs. By offering cloud services we can make our customers more efficient and help them respond faster to ever-changing business requirements," said Stephen Benson, executive vice president of managed services at Transcend United. "We looked at several competing storage offerings and technologies, but only Coraid EtherDrive SAN provided the scalability, performance and simplicity we required. Coraid storage lets us grow our cloud programs and focus on our customers rather than worry about the hardware in the rack."

Transcend United hybrid cloud services extend infrastructure and application architectures to augment their clients' existing IT strategy. Along with engineering expertise, Transcend United provides cloud infrastructure with the scalability and elasticity clients require to achieve their business goals and improve their bottom lines. The cloud services span core practice areas of unified communications, data infrastructure, backup/recovery and mobility/wireless.

Coraid EtherDrive solutions provide enterprises with performance storage while eliminating the complexity of traditional SAN solutions. Using a scale-out SAN architecture and standard Ethernet, Coraid EtherDrive storage arrays provide lower OPEX and a 5-8x price-performance advantage over legacy storage. EtherDrive is suited to dynamic high-performance computing, virtualization, video and cloud computing environments.

Coraid leverages standard Ethernet and the CorOS distributed storage operating system to deliver higher performance than FC at up to 1800 MB/s of throughput or nearly 200,000 IOPS per array using industry standard hardware. EtherDrive scales to multiple petabytes with an Ethernet SAN topology and connectionless, parallel design. Deployment and configuration of EtherDrive are simple; a host can configure and address new storage in under 60 seconds. The scale-out design also enables a Zero-Hour Support customer-service offering based on Coraid disk-portability technology, which allows users to swap drives between arrays for upgrades, service reconfiguration, data transfers or disaster recovery on the fly.