Coraid Introduction and Architecture

Coraid CEO Kevin Brown introduces the company and its history:

• Founded by Brantley Coyle (Cisco PIX and NAT)
• Coraid’s 10-year history, growth, funding, and management
• Financial value of the Coraid solution

Next, Carl Wright, Executive VP of Sales for Coraid, talks about the product architecture:

• Positioning Coraid in the FC and IP storage market
• Migration of high-end features down from high-end systems
• The Coraid global namespace
• ATA over Ethernet appears as a SCSI controller to hosts
• Simplicity of a connectionless datagram protocol
• LUN configuration is stored on the drives for flexibility and resilience
• Virtual software RAID
• Automation and one-click provisioning