CORAID® Inc., a leading developer of scale-out storage solutions with more than 1,100 customers worldwide, today announced availability for its new line of CORAID® EtherDrive® SRX-Series storage arrays, and unveiled an extended family of host bus adapters (HBA's) enabling high speed Ethernet SAN access for Windows, Solaris, and Linux environments. These new offerings further extend the price-performance advantage of EtherDrive Ethernet SAN solutions relative to legacy storage solutions.

Data visualization vendor Tableau Software, ranked by Inc. Magazine as one of the 500 fastest growing U.S. companies and one of the 25 fastest-growing software companies, has deployed EtherDrive SRX3200 appliances to support high-performance access to enterprise applications.

“Our new, free service Tableau Public has already helped hundreds of thousands of people all over the world analyze and publish data visualizations on the web – fast and flexible storage is fundamental to our mission,” said Jorge Reyes, director of operations at Tableau Software. “CORAID EtherDrive delivers an exceptional level of storage performance for us, without the complex topologies of traditional SAN solutions.”

“CORAID’s approach to storage offers an undeniable price/performance advantage over traditional SAN implementations,” said Mark Peters, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.  “With the explosive growth of server virtualization in data centers of all sizes, and the resulting increased workload that this places on storage, CORAID’s disruptive economics are sure to gain it considerably more attention.”

CORAID is redefining the fundamental economics of storage with Ethernet SAN solutions that provide enterprises of all sizes with a flexible tier of high performance, scale-out storage. CORAID’s breakthrough EtherDrive storage platform has organically amassed over 1,100 customers, including large enterprise and government organizations, since its 2005 launch into the Linux market. Using innovative software with 100-percent commodity hardware and raw Ethernet, EtherDrive storage arrays enable a scale-out SAN architecture that is ideally suited to dynamic virtualization and cloud environments. Starting at under $500 per terabyte and scaling to multiple petabytes, EtherDrive delivers a 5-8x price performance advantage over legacy Fibre Channel and iSCSI solutions, while eliminating layers of complex SAN management.