Hostway
Expands Second Tier Storage with EtherDrive Storage
Blades [February 2, 2005]
San
Clemente, CA, February 2, 2005-Global Web hosting leader
Hostway provides online presence management to over
300,000 customers. Hostway's services are designed to
meet the needs of customers large and small, from individuals
to corporate giants. Services include domain name registration,
email Web hosting, Web site hosting, ecommerce Web hosting,
dedicated servers and collocation. Hostway supports
web sites using both Linux and Windows platforms. Like
many hosting companies, Hostway constantly searches
for ways to lower costs, especially those pertaining
to storage.
Hostway
has found a low cost and highly scaleable solution for
their storage expansion through the use of EtherDrive
Storage Blades. Coraid's EtherDrive Storage Blades offer
economically scaleable block storage that uses simple
Ethernet networking. Through Ethernet connections, EtherDrive
attaches additional disks to servers and prevents having
to expand storage by purchasing additional costly servers.
Currently,
Hostway utilizes Coraid's EtherDrive Storage Blades
for their second tier--disk to disk backup to provide
data protection. The simplicity of use as well as the
flexibility of system configuration makes EtherDrive
an ideal choice for second tier storage where disks
on the server are backed-up by the disks in EtherDrive's
storage blades. An exceptional benefit to EtherDrive
is that it allows independent servers to share data
stored in EtherDrive Storage Blades.
Coraid's EtherDrive Storage Blades provide a low cost
networked storage solution using Ethernet connections
between the server and a shared storage array (pool).
Multiple servers can access a common disk storage system
eliminating wasted captive storage. This also allows
servers to be sized to meet their application load,
not by how much storage capacity they can hold. With
EtherDrive Storage Blades, the storage pool can be expanded
easily with simple Ethernet connections. Storage array
performance is limited only by the number of disks configured
for RAID stripping and the speed of the Ethernet connection
at the server. EtherDrive Storage Blades are Direct
Network Attached (DNA) block storage. DNA provides an
Ethernet interface for hard disk drives. Coraid offers
an optional EtherDrive RAIDBlade/20 Controller for users
that don't want to use Linux software RAID.
About
Coraid
Founded
in 2000, Coraid is focused on developing, manufacturing,
marketing and supporting innovative solutions for networked
storage. The "power of simple" makes our storage
products easier and more affordable for any server application.
Coraid developed the Open Standards-based ATA-over-Ethernet
(AoE) protocol which it has implemented into its EtherDrive
storage blade products. This powerful and efficient
protocol leverages the cost advantages of Ethernet to
provide true networked storage. For more information
please contact Coraid at 877-548-7200 and visit our
web site at http://www.coraid.com.
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