Cisco vs Coraid

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in San Jose, California, that designs, manufactures, and sells networking equipment. Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, and it supports, manages and operates business systems for various and major third parties. Cisco Systems was founded in December 1984 by Leonard Bosack, who was in charge of the Stanford University computer science (CS) department's computers, and Sandy Lerner, who managed the Graduate School of Business' computers.

Coraid, Inc. was a computer data storage vendor that provided storage area network products that used Ethernet, headquartered in Redwood City, California. The company was founded by Brantley Coile, who previously created the Cisco PIX firewall and Cisco LocalDirector products. Coile began the research and development phase of the company in 2000 after leaving Cisco Systems, and developed the ATA over Ethernet protocol, which enables storage networking using raw Ethernet frames for transport.