storage founded 2000 founder brantley coile headquarters redwood city california u.s. key people ceo dave kresse cto brantley coile products etherdrive srx etherdrive vsx etherflash ethercloud nas aoe san website www.coraid.com coraid inc. was a computer data storage vendor that provided storage area network san products that used ethernet headquartered in redwood city california . 1 contents 1 company history 2 etherdrive and etherflash storage 3 zfs 4 ethercloud 5 references company history edit the company was founded by brantley coile who previously created the cisco pix firewall and cisco localdirector products . coile began the research and development phase of the company in 2000 after leaving cisco systems and developed the ata over ethernet aoe protocol which enables storage networking using raw ethernet frames for transport . the company began selling its etherdrive family of storage arrays in 2004 . the open aoe protocol was released to the linux community and has been included in the linux kernel since 2005 2 3 starting with version 2.6.11 . coraid was backed with a total of 114.3 m in funding . the company received a first 10m round of institutional financing from two venture capital funds in january 2010 4 5 at the same time introducing new management and an advisory board . the company also moved its headquarters to redwood city ca early in 2010 . coraid secured an additional 25 million in series b funding in november 2010 followed by a third round of 50m in november 2011 . 6 in december 2013 the company received its final round of 29.3 m. the company website said they had more than 1 700 customers in sectors including media hosting service providers telecommunications healthcare aerospace manufacturing and government . on january 15 2015 the register reported of sources saying the company had shut its doors but support calls were still being taken . the ceo acknowledged a funding shortfall ; however there has been no official shut down announcement as of january 23 2015 . on january 23 2015 the company sent mass emails to partners and customers alike stating that it was no longer taking orders taking support calls or honoring rma requests . on april 15 2015 the company was foreclosed and all assets and intellectual property became the property of the primary debt holder . may 2015 the brantley coile company bought all the etherdrive srx and vsx assets . they are providing continued support to the abandoned coraid customers . brantley coile s new company southsuite software released a new version of the coraid software called sr704 and is providing on going development of the aoe devices as a software only product . in august 2016 southsuite acquired the coraid trademark and domain name to re born the company as a southsuite . 7 etherdrive and etherflash storage edit aoe is a second generation san transport protocol using layer 2 of the osi model of network communications raw ethernet . a key advantage of the protocol is the ability to use standard ethernet networks and a simple yet efficient protocol that minimizes packet size . coraid designed both hard disk drive and solid state drive flash storage arrays . coraid marketed etherdrive and etherflash as a scale out architecture delivering low latency access and offering up to several petabytes of storage . the company s products competed with fibre channel and iscsi products using block based storage . support for the openstack cinder block storage service was added with openstack grizzly . 8 the driver was removed in openstack kilo due to lack of feedback to the call for ci testing . 9 zfs edit a coraid etherdrive storage cluster san introduced in 2012 against the founder s wishes the zx line of appliances provided a zfs nas interface to etherdrive storage . the zx series appliances provided ethernet san performance together with advanced features supported by oracle s file system including high availability deduplication snapshots and copy on write clones and continuous integrity checking with automatic repair and high scalability . citation needed ethercloud edit a software defined storage platform ethercloud enabled one click provisioning and automation of enterprise class san and nas storage as well as rest apis for integration into openstack and the network server virtualization and application layers . coraid also supported vmware esxi environments through the custom and self supported driver . 10 references edit hoovers profile coraid inc. kernel korner ata over ethernet putting hard drives on the lan . linux journal . the ata over ethernet aoe protocol linux magazine . coraid gets 10 million funding to embrace storage channels channelweb . startup with all star backers aims to disrupt storage market fortune cloud startup coraid raises 25 million reuters southsuite acquires coraid ip coraid coraid demonstrates software defined storage in openstack environments at openstack summit reuters removing coraid driver for no reported ci github commit configuring coraid etherdrive san appliances and deploying with esxi 5.x partner support knowledgebase 247rack . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title coraid inc. & oldid 739354825 categories companies established in 2000companies based in redwood city californiahidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from february 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 14 september 2016 at 05 52 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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