Premier Health Care Services Buys Coraid SAN

Coraid Inc. announced that
Premier Health Care Services has implemented Coraid EtherDrive Ethernet SAN and
VMware solutions to virtualize and consolidate its IT infrastructure for
efficiency, agility and data protection.

Premier is an Emergency Medicine
Physician Group based in Dayton, Ohio, which partners with hospitals to improve
the quality and delivery of emergency-department patient care. Established in
1987, Premier is a provider of
physician services in the greater Midwest and Southeast.

"We were running out of storage space and
needed to replace our existing FC storage system with a solution
that would accommodate our growth of data, support our VMware server
virtualization efforts, improve storage performance and simplify our SAN
environment," said Steve Brown, director of information technology,
Premier Health Care Services. We like Coraid and ATA over Ethernet (AoE).
With AoE and 10 GbE, we didn’t have to sacrifice performance to simplify our
storage environment,".

Another
reason Premier decided to implement Coraid is for its
‘one-tier-for-all’ design, a single-building-block architecture that
supports SSD, SAS and SATA disk drives in the same chassis and allows Premier
to scale-out its storage capacity as its data needs grow.

Coraid
EtherDrive solutions provide enterprises of all sizes with flexible, scale-out,
high-performance storage. Using software, off-the-shelf hardware and Ethernet, Coraid EtherDrive storage arrays provide lower OPEX and a
5-8x price-performance advantage over legacy storage. EtherDrive is suited to dynamic high-performance computing, virtualization, video and cloud
computing environments.

Coraid
leverages raw Ethernet with AoE and the CorOS distributed-storage operating
system to deliver better than FC performance at up to 1800 MB/s of
throughput using low-cost, industry standard hardware. The arrays scale to
multiple petabytes with an Ethernet SAN topology and connectionless,
parallel design. Deployment and configuration of EtherDrive are simple; a host
can configure and address new storage in under 60 seconds. The scale-out design
also enables a Zero-Hour Support customer-service offering based on Coraid’s
disk-portability technology, which allows users to swap drives between arrays
for upgrades, service reconfiguration, data transfers or disaster recovery on
the fly.