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CORAID - A Disruptive Technology In The World Of Storage: Page 2 of 2

CORAID has been shipping products since 2004 and has over 1,100 customers using various CORAID products. The company has been in business since 2000 and has focused on delivering products that provide price/performance characteristics which enable customers to have a choice between low cost with speed and increased costs with more platform based functionality. The new SRX series pricing starts at $500 per terabyte and scales to multiple petabytes. The company claims that the SRX delivers 5 to 8X greater performance compared to Fibre Channel and iSCSI SAN storage solutions.

It does appear that the SRX arrays are simpler to deploy that Fibre Channel arrays. While I certainly believe the company's performance claims, CORAID would greatly benefit from supporting independent performance analyses which compare and contrast the performance claims. These could be especially helpful for the company as it embarks on positioning the SRX in the omnipresent Cloud space. From a Virtual Server perspective, the SRX and HBA's are already rocking-and-rolling in the VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V environment and they are completing beta testing now in the Linux/Citrix Zen environment (desk top and server) - that, from all indications, will ship this quarter.

In my opinion, as the company enters new application environments more storage platform-based software functionality will be introduced that could enable this product line to be a serious contender in the enterprise storage space where platform functions such as snapshots, consistency groups and a selection of remote replication capabilities are the norm. CORAID appears to be focused, ready and planning for a long stay in the storage market. CORAID has entered the high performance storage ball game, stepped up to the plate, and is ready to hit the ball out of the park with its new SRX series array and host bus adapters. For those with the need for speed at the storage level, CORAID should be on your short list.