Coraid Unveils Speedy Block Storage Appliances

Coraid Inc. announced the EtherDrive SRX6000 Series, its latest and fastest block storage appliances.

Aimed at cloud and enterprise data centers, the new storage appliances deliver enhanced performance, improved scalability and increased functionality by offering more than double the throughput and up to five times the IO/s compared to previous models. Fueled by a faster processor, new bus architecture and the new CorOS 7.0 software release, the SRX6000 now delivers over 700,000 IO/s in a single chassis and over 4,800MB/s of throughput.
 
Flash storage has emerged as a significant game-changer for enterprise storage, delivering performance acceleration and dynamic control in shared storage environments with variable performance requirements. Unfortunately, customers face a confusing range of specialized flash products that add yet more complexity to their storage architectures and introduce another tier of storage to manage.
 
In contrast, the SRX6000 democratizes flash by delivering versatility and performance in a ‘one-tier-for-all’ storage architecture, combining commodity economics for both SSDs and HDD drives. It offers flash performance in a scale-out architecture, leveraging the power of connectionless, massively parallel layer 2 Ethernet. The new array provides simplified management and programmability, without requiring customers to buy yet another tier of custom storage arrays.
 
The SRX6000 is the core of Coraid’s high-performance product line, delivering scale-out network storage for block workloads, as well as capacity for Coraid ZX file storage products. Customers can quickly and non-disruptively deploy SRX6000 systems on the same network as current EtherDrive SRX Series storage systems to deliver enhanced performance, improved scalability and increased functionality. Now in its third year of production deployments, with thousands of units shipped, SRX-Series is a stable and production-hardened storage solution.
 
"Over the past ten years, enterprises have seen enormous gains in scalability, flexibility and affordability as they migrated from proprietary, monolithic server architectures to architectures that are virtualized, open source, standardized and commoditized. The same pattern is playing out in the storage sector," said Doug Dooley, VP of product management, Coraid. "Flash is a tremendous enabler for scale-out storage, because small modular arrays can now outperform large legacy storage arrays with thousands of HDDs. By giving customers the flexibility to maximize the performance of all drive types in a single platform, all accessed over simple layer 2 Ethernet, the Coraid EtherDrive SRX6000 Series helps customers integrate flash performance into their core storage environments."
 
"Coraid continues to raise its own, already impressive bar for performance, scalability and price point with its new EtherDrive SRX6000 platform," said Mark Peters, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "The combination of an increase in throughput and a boost in solid-state IO/s with a true scale-out architecture makes the EtherDrive SRX6000 worthy of consideration in a broad range of private, public and hybrid cloud deployments."
 
EtherDrive SRX6000 Series appliances are available for order, with all-flash configurations starting at over $5/GB and less than $0.10/IO/s.