Milwaukee County Transit System Chooses EtherDrive

Coraid, Inc. announced that the Milwaukee County Transit System has
selected Coraid EtherDrive SRX storage with 15,000rpm 600GB
SAS disk drives for its production Oracle databases.

The Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) is the largest transit agency in
Wisconsin and the primary transit provider for Milwaukee County. It ranks among
the top 50 transit agencies in the United States.

The EtherDrive storage appliances provide MCTS with a shared storage solution
that eliminates the complexity of traditional SAN solutions. Using an scale-out SAN architecture and standard Ethernet, they provide lower OPEX and faster-than-FC performance at
commodity hardware economics. EtherDrive is suited to dynamic 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 1800MB/s of
throughput or nearly 200,000 IOPS per array using commodity hardware.
EtherDrive scales to multiple PT with a flat Ethernet SAN topology and
connectionless, parallel design. Deployment and configuration
of EtherDrive arrays are simple; a user 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 DR on the fly.