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Educational Organizations Choose LINBIT For High Availability & Disaster Recovery Solutions
Educational Organizations Choose LINBIT® because our software suite enables the implementation of always-on systems for enrollment, online testing, registration, and other critical services. In addition
Why Must Higher Education Be Highly Available?
People understand the importance of hospital systems needing to be highly available, but higher education also needs to be. Hospitals are easy to explain since
LINBIT Strengthens Global Presence Through Agreement with eCloudTech in China
LINBIT® has partnered with eCloudTech to offer our open-source software solutions in High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), and Software-Defined Storage (SDS) to the Chinese
The True Cost of Data Loss
When you hear the term ‘Data Loss,’ what does it make you think? Something frightening or just an inconvenience? What if you lost your customer database,
LINBIT Offers A Competitive Enterprise Storage Solution Based On DRBD
LINBIT® offers a competitive enterprise storage solution based on DRBD® that shows that it doesn’t always have to be SAN. Storage Area Network (SAN) is
How LINBIT Supports the Japanese Market With Thirdware
LINBIT® supports the Japanese market through a partnership with Japanese Linux pioneer Thirdware Inc. As a DRBD Certified Partner, Thirdware provides full support for DRBD® and
Combine GFS2 with DRBD
Cluster filesystems like GFS2 has gained a lot popularity lately. Higher Performance. Scalability. Fault tolerance. These features sound like heaven for any system architect. But
Enterprise Network Security: Scale for Dependable Security, Higher Speed, & High Availability
Enterprise network security is essential to protect an organization’s computer networks, data, and devices from unauthorized access and disruption. The goal of enterprise network security
High Speed Geo-Clustering meets Hardware Compression.
Today, at Red Hat Summit 2016, AHA Products Group (AHA), the data compression experts, and LINBIT®, the market leader in open source High Availability (HA)
DRBD 9 over RDMA with Micron SSDs
We have been testing out some 240GB Micron M500DC SSDs with DRBD® 9 and DRBD’s RDMA Transport layer. Micron, based in Boise Idaho, is a
RDMA Performance
As promised in the previous RDMA post, we gathered some performance data for the RDMA transport. Read and enjoy! Basic Hardware Information The Software We
DRBD Client (Diskless Mode) Performance
This blog post will introduce a new feature and examine the performance of DRBD® Diskless. DRBD 9 introduces an interesting new feature; DRBD client nodes.
Raspberry Tau: Pi Cluster
Raspberry Tau: a Pi cluster. The Raspberry PI is a small ARM computer (hardware specifications in wiki, outline and FAQs). Of course, you can build
Mirrored SAN vs DRBD
We sometimes get asked, “Why not simply use a mirrored SAN instead of DRBD®”? This post shows some crucial differences between mirrored SAN and DRBD.
Explaining The DRBD® Configuration ‘al-extents.’
There can sometimes be a lot of confusion and complexity about the DRBD® configuration value al-extents (activity log extents). We have written this blog post