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Coraid was honored at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo last week as the winner of the Product Excellence Award for Best Data Backup or Storage Solution. Coraid’s SATA+RAID EtherDrive Storage Appliance was selected as an innovative Storage Area Networking technology that offers unique value for the open source community. EtherDrive Storage uses the open AoE (ATA over Ethernet) protocol which is now included in the Linux 2.6 kernel. It provides Linux with the simplest, most efficient and lowest cost means to access networked storage. “Coraid is very proud to receive this award in the highly competitive field of storage appliances,” said Jim Kemp CEO of Coraid, Inc. “EtherDrive storage has been validated and deployed by businesses, universities and government agencies throughout the world where massively scaleable and affordable storage is required.” The LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards are the industry standard for innovation in the Linux community. IDG World Expo honors the developers of outstanding products, which represent the very best technology available to users of Linux and open source. Coraid offers three EtherDrive storage product categories: * Storage Appliances - provide a shared Ethernet interface for multiple disks. These simple to use appliances provide a bridge between the disks and Ethernet using AoE and RAID. Each disk is individually accessible on the network (JBOD) or can be configured into RAID sets presenting one or more logical EtherDrive storage devices to the network. * Storage Blades - provide a separate Ethernet interface for each disk. The blade's processor (one processor/disk) provides a bridge between a single disk and Ethernet using AoE. * RAID Appliances - provide RAID abstraction and present logical EtherDrive storage devices assembled from EtherDrive Storage Appliances or EtherDrive Storage Blades.