College of Saint Elizabeth Choosing Coraid EtherDrive

Coraid Inc. announced
that the College of Saint Elizabeth (CSE) in Morristown, NJ
has selected Coraid EtherDrive SRX
storage arrays to support its VMware environment and desktop virtualization
programs.

CSE is a four-year private college in the Catholic liberal arts
tradition providing academic programs for approximately 2,100 students of
diverse ages, backgrounds, and cultures.

"We needed to
increase storage to maintain high-performance for our fast-growing virtual
environment and to help ensure the success of our desktop virtualization
initiative," comments Brad Morton, chief technology officer at CSE.
"Coraid has developed a
high-performing, easy-to-manage and extremely cost-effective product leveraging
Ethernet SAN technology. Coupled with the company’s excellent service and
support, no other solution within our price range could compete."

CSE purchased a Coraid EtherDrive
SRX3200 with close to 30TB of capacity in four solid-state and 14
two-terabyte SATA drives. The installation and configuration of the SRX3200
took just 30 minutes, including the provisioning of storage to CSE’s VMware
test environment.

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.

Coraid
Ethernet SAN leverages low overhead, parallel Ethernet
connectivity and the CorOS
distributed storage operating system to deliver up to 1,800 MB/s of
throughput – better than FFC performance – using
industry-standard hardware.