Sony Music Selects Coraid to Store Music in Cloud

Coraid Inc.
announced that Sony Music Australia, an integrated
music company and provider of digital music consumer
services, has deployed Coraid EtherDrive storage to power its online Australian
website Bandit.fm, an online, digital music delivery system.

By unifying its massive library of music on to one storage solution, Sony Music Australia can keep pace with
growing demand for its music while ensuring HA and data protection.

It previously hosted its music on a NAS platform
but was looking for a better way to grow capacity and lower operating expenses.
It was essential that any new solution be able to scale to multiple petabytes. It hosts over five million tracks today and anticipates
needing to nearly quadruple its capacity to support continued
growth in music titles and user base, as well as to support a second site for
backup and HA.

Dustin McClung, Vice President, IS&T Asia Pacific, said: "We wanted to build an infrastructure that
would enable us to provide the ultimate experience for consumers. We needed a
high-performance system that would replace our existing NAS storage system as
well as scale and give us room to grow. We considered other storage systems,
but only Coraid offered a scale-out architecture that would allow us to simply
add capacity and performance as needed. The Coraid EtherDrive solution not only
met our price, performance and density requirements but also provided the data
protection we were looking for."

EtherDrive solutions provide enterprises of all sizes with performance storage while eliminating the complexity of
traditional SAN solutions. Using a scale-out SAN
architecture and standard Ethernet, Coraid EtherDrive storage arrays provide
lower OPEX and a five-to-eight times price-performance advantage over legacy
storage.

EtherDrive is  suited to dynamic performance computing,
virtualization, video and cloud computing environments.

Coraid leverages standard Ethernet and the CorOS distributed storage
operating system to deliver higher performance than FC at up to 1800 MB/s of
throughput or nearly 200,000 IOPS per array using low-cost, industry-standard
hardware. EtherDrive scales to multiple petabytes with a flat Ethernet SAN
topology and connectionless, parallel design. 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 DR on the fly.