Monroe County School District Selects Coraid

Coraid,
Inc., announced that Monroe County School District of Key
West, Florida has selected Coraid EtherDrive for their Ethernet SAN storage to
support their virtualized server environment.

Coraid’s Ethernet SAN solutions provide enterprises of all
sizes with flexible, scale-out, orage. Using software, off-the-shelf hardware and standard Ethernet, Coraid EtherDrive
storage arrays provide lower OPEX and a 5-8x price-performance advantage over
legacy storage. EtherDrive is ideally suited to dynamic computing, virtualization,video and cloud computing environments.

Coraid Ethernet SAN leverages raw Ethernet with ATA over
Ethernet (AoE) and the CorOS distributed storage operating system to deliver
better than Fibre Channel performance at up to 1,800 MB/S of throughput using
low cost, industry standard hardware. The arrays scale to multiple petabytes
with a flat Ethernet topology and connectionless, parallel design. Deployment
and configuration of EtherDrive is 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’s disk-portability technology,
which allows users to swap drives between arrays for upgrades, service
reconfiguration, data transfers or disaster recovery on the fly.