Coraid
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| Coraid, Inc. | |
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Athens, Georgia |
| Key people | CIO: Brantley Coile CEO: James Kemp |
| Industry | Computer Storage |
| Products | NAS, AoE |
| Slogan | The Linux Storage People. |
| Website | www.coraid.com |
Coraid, Inc. of Athens, GA designs and manufactures networked storage appliances. Coraid's developers created and maintain the Linux kernel's aoe driver. Coraid developed the ATA over Ethernet network protocol.
Coraid's tag line is "The Linux Storage People" [1].
The AoE (ATA-over-Ethernet) protocol provides a means for a block storage device to be connected directly to an Ethernet network. An AoE device can be a single physical disk or a logical device made up of multiple disks. Logical AoE devices may be backed by redundant (e.g., RAID) storage.
The simplicity of AoE allows low-cost hardware to serve as networked storage devices. Using ethernet network topology to isolate the non-routable AoE traffic is an alternative to the more complex security strategies used for managing other types of networked storage.
[edit] Related
- The ATA over Ethernet initiator is part of the mainline Linux kernel since 2.6.11
- Kernel Korner - ATA Over Ethernet: Putting Hard Drives on the LAN
- The ATA over Ethernet (AoE) Protocol
- Ben Rockwood: ATA Vs. iSCSI
- LinuxWorld 2005 "Best Storage Solution"
