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 DRBD+ for their region. Also, a Japanese translation of the DRBD project’s community website: http://www.drbd.org, which is now available at http://www.drbd.jp.
We select our certified partners for their excellent levels of proficiency in replication and high availability solutions. ThirdWare Inc. has specialised in deploying and supporting Linux-based server systems based on high availability and recovery since its foundation in 1997.
Gerhard Sternath, LINBIT CEO/CFO, commented, “We’ve known ThirdWare for quite a while and are very impressed with the Linux competency of President Motoharu Kubo’s team. This DRBD Certified Partner assures reliable and timely support for our high availability products, DRBD and DRBD+, in Japan. What is extremely important for us is that we now have a partner capable of providing this support in the Japanese language for Japanese-speaking customers.”
DRBD Certified Partners
DRBD Certified Partners can use the world-renowned and protected DRBD trademark as a powerful marketing tool. As DRBD+ resellers, our partners benefit from attractive commissions. Thanks to LINBIT® covering 3rd-level support, Certified Partners enjoy the comfort of leaving technical issues to LINBIT and focusing on their core business as consultants and service providers.
Thirdware has previously deployed DRBD in over 30 high-availability cluster projects. Florian Haas, international partner relationship manager at LINBIT, said, “Our partnership agreement is the logical consequence of our highly successful relationship and means excellent support for our present and future Japanese customers.” Existing customers within Japan include the following renowned enterprises and organisations, such as Fujitsu Corp., Gifu Women’s University, LaboNetwork Inc., Nippon Electric Glass Co., Rating and Investment Information Inc., and World Business Center Co. Ltd.
High Availability & Disaster Recovery
It’s crucial that LINBIT supports the Japanese market because the issues of high availability and disaster recovery are fundamental in Asia, where earthquakes are more likely to impact business. DRBD+ is an ideal solution to this challenge. Besides synchronous, local replication over low-latency, high-bandwidth LAN links, DRBD+ adds asynchronous long-distance replication, allowing three-way mirroring utilising low-bandwidth connections.
If you want to become a LINBIT partner, visit the following page and contact one of our team: https://linbit.com/partners/.
