What’s the Difference Between Off-Site Data Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR)?
Many businesses make the mistake of confusing “Disaster Recovery” (DR) with “off-site data backup.” Confusing the two may lead to paying a high price in the form of data loss and downtime when a disaster hits. Off-site backups are a necessary part of business continuity in the face of disaster for nearly any organization, but […]
Minimize Downtime During System Maintenance
System maintenance, whether planned or in response to failure, is a necessary part of managing infrastructure. Everyone hopes for the former, rather than the latter. We do our system maintenance quarterly here at LINBIT® in hopes that the latter is avoided. These maintenance windows are where we install hardware and software updates, test failovers, and […]
LINBIT and ShapeBlue Presenting Storage Days
On September 28th and 29th, LINBIT and ShapeBlue are teaming up to bring you a two day webinar event exploring the benefits of using a combination of open-source software-defined storage and open-source cloud orchestration for building IaaS.During the event, you will get the chance to learn more about integrating LINSTOR (configuration management system for storage on Linux […]
LINSTOR LDAP Authentication
New Features of LINSTOR Release – July 2019 The Newest LINSTOR® release (July 2019) came with a bunch of new features, and one that is really worth highlighting: The developers of LINSTOR, the storage management tool for all things Linux, announced that the latest release comes with authentication for LDAP. Software-defined storage consumers were demanding […]
LINBIT Announces DRBD Support for Amazon Linux
The Digital Transformation The concept of “Digital Transformation” for executive teams at Fortune-sized companies is no longer a new and flashy phrase. An important part of this Digital Transformation is how companies think about cloud computing. When once, organizations seemed to have only 2 decisions: enter the cloud, or keep everything on premise; now the […]
LINBIT SDS Adds Disaster Recovery and Support for Kubernetes
LINBIT SDS (Linux SDS) will showcase cloud-native enterprise storage management at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Seattle Beaverton, OR, Dec. 3, 2018 – LINBIT® enhances open source software-defined storage (SDS) by providing disaster recovery (DR) replication for critical data. LINBIT SDS is an enterprise-class storage management solution designed for cloud and container storage workloads. To simplify […]
Demo of Extending LINSTOR-Managed DRBD Volume to a DR Node
In this video Matt Kereczman from LINBIT® combines components of LINBIT SDS and LINBIT to demonstrate extending an existing LINSTOR® managed DRBD® volume to a disaster recovery node, located in a geographically-separated datacenter via LINSTOR and DRBD proxy. Watch the video: He’s already created a LINSTOR cluster on four nodes: linstor-a, linstor-b, linstor-c and linstor-dr. […]
OS driven Software-Defined Storage (SDS) with Linux
In the tech world, a “layered cake” approach allows IT shops to enable new software capabilities while minimizing disruption. Need a new feature? Add a new layer. But like “too much of a good thing,” this approach has caused the IT stack to grow over the years. Software layer bloat and complexity can lead to […]
Container-Native Software Defined Storage (SDS) From LINBIT
Container-native software technologies represent the next wave of efficiency for data centres. Like previous waves, a new technology points to new levels of efficiency and delivers some of it. But as you get deeper into it, you see opportunities to optimize how it works. And after a while longer, you see it. Doing it in […]
