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Coraid announced that ParkingSOFT, the innovative leader in parking products and applications, has selected Coraid EtherDrive Ethernet SAN storage for their virtualization project. ParkingSOFT is an Atlanta-based manufacturer of parking access and revenue control hardware and software for the transportation industry. With its strategic partners ParkingSOFT's business model is to change the traditional method in which parking Access and Revenue Control Systems have been provided worldwide.

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

Coraid Ethernet SAN leverages raw Ethernet with ATA over Ethernet (AoE) and the CorOS™ distributed storage operating system to deliver better than Fibre Channel performance at up to 1800 MB/S of throughput using low cost, industry standard hardware. The arrays scale to multiple petabytes with a flat Ethernet topology and connectionless, parallel design. Deployment and configuration of EtherDrive is 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.