[August 26, 2011] Coraid Releases Management Platform Tweet Aug 26, 2011 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Coraid, a developer of Ethernet SAN solutions, announced Coraid EtherDrive SAN Manager 1.5, Coraid's newest management platform. "Modern data centers are moving to automated cloud architectures, but they can't get there with legacy storage. Coraid's scale-out platform builds simplicity and performance into the network and storage arrays, and our new EtherDrive SAN Manager ties them together with automation and visibility across all resources," said Kevin Brown, CEO of Coraid, in a release. "Managing petabytes of shared storage is now as simple as managing local disk." The platform provides integration with VMware vCenter Server and Microsoft VSS and pools storage resources for simplified storage operations. Coraid's Ethernet SAN platform eliminates multiple layers of traditional SAN complexity, and ESM enables automation in virtualized and cloud computing environments. Coraid EtherDrive SAN Manager uses the scale-out architecture of EtherDrive and the shared global namespace of Coraid's CorOS operating system to monitor and configure up to petabytes of storage as a pooled resource. EtherDrive SAN Manager includes the Coraid ESM for vCenter Plug-in, which provides VMware administrators visibility and control over virtual machine storage, including virtual machine-to-storage mappings and the coordination and scheduling of array snapshots for data protection. The platform also includes Microsoft VSS integration to communicate with Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft Hyper-V to quiesce applications before storage snapshots. Coraid is a Gold Sponsor of VMworld 2011 and will be demonstrating new products at the event. The products will be available in the fourth quarter. Coraid is a provider of EtherDrive storage solutions. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]