Coraid, the data storage company running on AoE technology got toasted last month. But it is making a comeback with a new name “The Brantley Coile Company” in this month. Coraid was a year 2000 startup which worked to build Etherdrive networked storage arrays using ATA-Over-Ethernet (AoE) access protocol as an alternative to Fibre Channel and iSCSI. But due to some financial hiccups, it had to shut down its business in April 2015.
Now the company is being resurrected as “The Brantley Coile Company, Inc which has the purchased the rights of the EtherDrive CorOs product line from the past owners of Coraid. This new company has been started by a former CISCO executive named Brantley Coile, who has devised and patented the AoE Protocol.
The new company is planning to open source the SRX and VSX source code, as well as provide fee-based software support and new features for SRX customers in order to continue to use and expand their AoE deployments. The Brantley Coile Company will offer unlocked binaries and instructions on building one’s own SRX out of Supermicro components.
The Brantley Coile Company website will go live from May 18th 2015.
