CORAID’s EtherDrive®, the affordable network storage, provides fast SAN solutions boasting Fibre Channel speeds at Ethernet prices. Recently named among “Linux Magazine’s Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2009”, CORAID designs and manufactures innovative, affordable network storage appliances based on the open ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) lightweight network storage protocol. AoE leverages the advantages of Ethernet to transport ATA disk commands without the burden of TCP/IP overhead. Coupling Ethernet technology with SATA hard disk drives, EtherDrive® SAN solutions exploit commodity components to deliver affordable, fast SAN solutions. Compatible with Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Mac OSX, Windows and now VMware ESX 3.5, EtherDrive® SAN solutions are scalable and embrace virtualization. Shipping EtherDrive® products since 2004, CORAID boasts thousands of satisfied customers spanning a broad spectrum of the market including enterprise, government, educational institutions, and hosting service providers. CORAID was named InfoWorld’s BOSSIE Award for Best of Open Source In Storage and won the Product Excellence Award for Best Data Backup and Storage Solution at the Linux World Expo
