Coraid
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| Coraid, Inc. | |
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Athens, Georgia |
| Key people | CTO: Brantley Coile CEO: James Kemp |
| Industry | Computer Storage |
| Products | NAS, AoE |
| 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.
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"
