| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Data Storage |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Founder(s) | Brantley Coile |
| Headquarters | Redwood City, California, Athens, Georgia |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | CEO: Kevin Brown Chairman: Audrey MacLean CTO: Brantley Coile EVP WW Sales: Carl Wright VP Sales: Josh Leslie VP Engineering: Alan Beltran VP Marketing: John Gilmartin |
| Products | EtherDrive SRX, EtherDrive VSX, EtherFlash, NAS, AoE, SAN |
| Website | www.coraid.com |
Coraid, Inc. is a storage vendor that provides Ethernet SAN solutions, headquartered in Redwood City, California[1].
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The company was founded by Brantley Coile, who previously invented the Cisco PIX firewall and Cisco LocalDirector products.[2] Coile began the R&D phase of the company in 2000 after leaving Cisco, and developed the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) protocol, which enables storage networking using raw Ethernet frames for transport. The AoE protocol was released to the Linux community, and has been included in the Linux kernel since 2005[3][4], starting with version 2.6.11.
From 2004-2009, the company primarily sold its EtherDrive family of storage arrays into the Linux market. In 2009, the company entered the virtualization storage market with support for VMware ESX environments.[5] In January 2010, the company announced its first round of institutional financing, $10 million from two venture capital funds[6][7], as well as new management and an advisory board. The company also moved its headquarters to Redwood City, CA in early 2010. In November 2010, Coraid secured an additional $25 million in Series B funding.[8]. A $50 million Series C was closed in November 2011.
The company has over 1,500 customers in sectors including aerospace, manufacturing, media, telecommunications, healthcare, hosting, and government.[9] The company’s Ethernet SAN solutions based on AoE compete with Fibre Channel and iSCSI products using block-based storage.
In September, 2011 Coraid introduced their EtherFlash™ solution at VMworld 2011. Coraid's EtherFlash combines high performance flash drives with the scalable architecture of EtherDrive, delivering low-latency access to flash drives containing up to several petabytes of storage.[10]