Lato Networks announces partnership with Coraid

Article posted on: 09 June 2011

Today Lato Networks announces a new alliance partnership with storage vendor Coraid. Coraid has been selling its products since 2004 delivering the fundamental building blocks for scaling out storage projects for virtualization, disaster recovery, high-performance computing, and cloud storage.

Coraid are redefining storage economics by providing a radically simplified SAN topology based on ATA over Ethernet (AoE) which provides impressive price/ performance combined with massive throughput and marked ease of implementation and management.

Coraid combines off the shelf hardware, Ethernet networking and scale-out virtual storage architecture that can grow from a few terabytes to multiple petabytes with a mix of SAS/ SATA and SSD drives. The solution is designed for the emerging virtualized datacentre, with both VMWare and Hyper-V seeing Coraid as locally attached disks. In addition, functionality including mirroring, snapshot, cloning and asynchronous replication are available to meet enterprise demands.

Ethernet SAN is an extremely fast and simple method for sharing disk drives through a low latency network. Since Ethernet SAN doesn't require TCP/IP, it has less overhead, lower latency and automatically utilises all network paths. Coraid's EtherDrive storage products take full advantage of Ethernet SAN's simplicity to deliver storage that will out perform Fibre Channel and iSCSI.

Solution Highlights:

• Higher Performance than Fibre Channel at 20% of the Cost
• Performance: 1800+ MB/sec per shelf
• Provisioning of Etherdrive in less than 2 minutes from power on
• Scale-out architecture - No controller bottleneck
• Move to Elastic Cloud Architecture
• Storage can be deployed and Managed within the hypervisor - no need for Storage Admin

For more information, on Coraid products click here. 

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