[Lincs] [Fwd: EtherDrive]

[Marc McGuinness]

Hello subscribers!

I just received this mail. What's your oppinion?

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: EtherDrive
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:03:01 -0800
From: Chris Fernstrum <chris at coraid.com>
To: <admin at lincs.lug.org.uk>

Hello Marc,

I got your E-mail address from the list of Linux User Groups around the
world.  I am contacting you to seek your advice.  What is the best way 
for my company to make your members aware of a new technology now 
available for the Linux community?

Coraid has developed a new product called EtherDrive specifically 
designed to meet the networked disk storage needs of Linux systems.  We 
have visited numerous Linux User Group meetings in the USA and have 
found that the members are very interested in this technology, since 
there no suitable networked storage solution for Linux users.  Arranging 
a personal visit to locations outside the USA is not feasible for us at 
this time but perhaps there is another way that you have found effective 
for your members to become aware of new technologies.

The EtherDrive Storage Blades are a way to connect disk drives directly 
on an Ethernet network.  A GPL device driver for Linux completes the 
picture by making the disks appear local. We've defined a new protocol, 
AoE or ATA-over-Ethernet, to do this.

Shared (networked) storage is a common need for any system.  Current 
storage manufacturers offer only choices that are expensive and 
complicated. EtherDrive storage blades are like Storage Area Network but 
much, much less expensive. Now the Linux community can do a lot of new 
things that were too expensive before.

Please contact me if you think this technology would be of interest for 
your LUG members.  We would be happy to forward technical presentation 
materials or other documents that you feel are appropriate.  Our website 
contains more information.  http://www.coraid.com/indexc.html

Thank you for your help.

Sincerely,

Chris
chris at coraid.com







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