"As an Investment Management Firm, our primary motivation for implementing OASIS was to create a seamless fail-over system for our Internet access. Access redundancy is critical as we have become more dependent on the availability of the Internet including email, webcasts, ftp transfers and secure websites for accessing our business partners. Any access failure has a negative impact on employee productivity leading to increased costs and user frustration. We recently experienced an Internet T1 outage and with OASIS in place our Internet traffic automatically routed over our other three connections."

Christopher Grove
CIO
Fiduciary Management, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI

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EtherDrive® Storage

  • Simple
  • Low Cost
  • Ethernet Connected
  • Block Storage
  • Massively Scalable
  • High Performance RAID
  • Low Power
  • SATA or PATA Disk

Storage for any Server application

EtherDrive® Storage is simply Ethernet connected hard disk drives. A Storage Area Network (SAN) using EtherDrive storage can be assembled for less than $1.35 per GigaByte.

Using the ATA-Over-Ethernet (AoE) protocol and standard Ethernet technology, hosts can access EtherDrive storage as network connected, block storage devices. A shared pool of EtherDrive storage can be expanded to multi-Petabytes.

AoE is a simple non-routable open protocol designed specifically to transport disk commands over Ethernet. Unlike iSCSI, AoE does not require processing of TCP/IP, this reduces host processing load and eliminates the need for expensive network adapters.

EtherDrive Storage is Direct Network Attachment (DNA) block storage. DNA moves a disk drive onto a network connection, making each disk an EtherDrive Storage device. EtherDrive Storage can be assembled into RAID sets or used as individual disks.

Who Is Using EtherDrive Storage?

  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
  • U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
  • University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
  • National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment (NSCEE)
  • Purdue University
  • University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • Universits di Pisa (Italy)
  • National Information Infrastructure Development Program (NIIF) Hungary
  • University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMASS)
  • Hostway
  • The Wave Media
  • ABHosting
  • Merck
  • Baylor University
  • Penn State
  • McNeese State University
  • State University of New York - Potsdam (SUNY)