The Open Source OpenSDS Project Welcomes LINBIT
The OpenSDS Project is an open-source community addressing software-defined storage integration challenges. The aim is to drive enterprise adoption of open standards. Open-source technology is our primary focus. Therefore, we’re delighted to be a member of OpenSDS. The Linux Foundation host the OpenSDS Project. It comprises storage users and vendors. Most notably, Dell EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Huawei, IBM, […]
VCS Integrates With LINBIT’s DRBD Software
The LINBIT® DRBD® software has been updated with integration for Veritas Infoscale Availability (VIA) – formerly VCS. VIA, formerly known as Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), is a proprietary cluster manager for building highly available clusters on Linux. Examples of application cluster capabilities are Network File Sharing databases or e-commerce websites. VCS solves the same problem […]
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 to excellent performance, our software is affordable for educational organizations. The digitization of critical processes, from managing student records to assignments and tests, is crucial across the education industry. This […]
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 people’s LIVES depend on accessible medical equipment and information. Likewise, people understand the importance of banks needing High Availability (HA) – they expect access to their MONEY on-demand and want […]
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, your employee healthcare information, or your organization’s website transactions? Perhaps that reveals how problematic it can be. In today’s information-based world, data is one of the most important assets in a […]
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 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 […]
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 Used Our underlying block devices have some ‘persistent’ (ha!) space at the beginning and the end, to keep the DRBD and filesystem superblocks; the rest in the middle was mapped […]
