Caringo, Coraid Team

Caringo, Inc. and Coraid Inc. announced an unified storage infrastructure for scale-out block and object storage.

The combined solution provides customers with operational flexibility by integrating the scalability and ease of management of object storage with elastic, high-performance Ethernet SAN storage. The Caringo-Coraid solution is suited for cloud computing, large enterprises, video and big data environments struggling with the growth of unstructured data.

Combined, Coraid EtherDrive storage arrays and Caringo’s CAStor object storage enable customers to build a scale-out pool of shared storage, with software features for multi-tenant management across multiple sites.

Software applications and private cloud storage solutions enabled by Caringo can now use shared block storage from Coraid, including RESTful automation of storage provisioning.

Caringo has integrated the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) open standard into its platform, taking advantage of parallel Ethernet for performance connectivity to a pool of Coraid EtherDrive arrays.

In contrast to storage solutions based on FC and iSCSI, the joint solution delivers an elastic, automated cloud architecture that can scale out economically to handle petabytes of data, with the simplicity of DAS.

"Together, Coraid and Caringo are changing the economics of large-scale data storage," said Kevin Brown, CEO of Coraid. "Our Ethernet SAN technology offers a 5-10x price/performance advantage over legacy storage, while radically simplifying the deployment and management of these environments. Caringo has integrated with Coraid using the open-standard AoE protocol, adding a layer of powerful object storage management features that are ideal for handling massive pools of unstructured data."

"Caringo’s CAStor software is perfectly suited to handle unstructured data, and the integration of our platform with Coraid’s scale-out Ethernet SAN delivers a compelling mix of price-performance, simplicity and scalability," said Mark Goros, CEO at Caringo. "Combining the two technologies to offer a unified solution, while retaining the inherent benefits of each, means that businesses now have the flexibility to choose the best storage method with almost no impact to operational resources. We’re thrilled to partner with Coraid in launching just such a solution."

The joint Caringo-Coraid solution is available.