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The Benefits of Buying Support for Open Source Software
One of the enticing things about open source software is its almost universal price tag: free. Another enticement is your ability to start testing and
Upcoming Events & Software Updates
In the coming month, there are two events that our team will be attending. The first event is STAC (Strategic Technology Analysis Center). STAC’s research
Encrypted Replication With DRBD
With the arrival of DRBD® 9.2.6, replication traffic can now be encrypted by the Linux kernel. DRBD is now able to use in-kernel TLS acceleration
Experience the LINBIT Storage Day Webinars
While keeping up with news from our industry, it caught my attention that among EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) users, servers running Rocky Linux
Multisite Data Replication Over a WAN for Disaster Recovery
LINBIT® and many other organizations that specialize in high-availability (HA) solutions use and support the cluster manager Pacemaker. Pacemaker, when properly configured, does a great
Configuring Multipath iSCSI Targets in Pacemaker for Higher Availability
LINBIT® has been building and supporting high-availability (HA) iSCSI clusters using DRBD® and Pacemaker for over a decade. In fact, that was the very first
What the New European Cyber Resilience Act Means for the Open Source Industry
In community news, the European Cyber Resilience Act will have a massive impact on Open Source projects and Open Source businesses. The intention is to impose mandatory
Kubernetes at the Edge Using LINBIT SDS for Persistent Storage
Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm that brings data processing and computation closer to the data source or “edge” of the network. This reduces
Is the Open Source World Under Financial Pressure?
Two weeks ago, the news that EQT is buying back SUSE shares got some attention in the Linux world, which also happens to be when
LINBIT Offers Official DRBD Basics Training
LINBIT® is offering an official training package for Linux system administrators who are interested in getting started using DRBD® to create high-availability and high-performance block
DRBD Starter Package
LINBIT® has been dedicated to open source since its inception. All of LINBIT’s code is freely available on GitHub, as well as prepackaged downloads on LINBIT.com.
Is “Enterprise Linux” fragmented? Will there be RHEL and Open Enterprise Linux?
Following the recent pattern, the discussion about Red Hat’s move to no longer make the source code for RHEL publicly available continues. The most recent
Deploying LINBIT SDS in an Air-Gapped Kubernetes Cluster
Authors: Joel Zhou & Michael Troutman — Deploying LINBIT SDS into an air-gapped Kubernetes cluster can be useful when your Kubernetes deployment requires persistent, highly
A Brief History of Source Code Distribution Practices
First, I’d like to continue the evolving discussion about RedHat’s move to limit its RHEL source code to its paying customers and cut off clones
DRBD Reactor & Pacemaker: A Side-by-Side Comparison
In this blog post, I want to expand a little bit further on my colleague, and DRBD Reactor developer, Roland’s post, High-Availability with DRBD Reactor &
RHEL Compatible Distribution
You may have noticed that the newsletter got one week off from its usual cadence. That is due to my two-week summer vacation. We spent
