LINBIT Announces Piraeus Datastore – Software-Defined Storage for Kubernetes

Piraeus Datastore offers high performance, highly reliable SDS solution for Persistent Volumes in Kubernetes

San Diego, November 18., 2019 – LINBIT®, the inventor of the open-source software DRBD® and leader in Linux storage software, has announced the project “Piraeus Datastore”. Piraeus Datastore offers a fast, stable way for users to provide Persistent Volumes for their Kubernetes applications. It is developed under the open-source development model and has been made publicly available via pre-built packages and containers in a joint-effort between LINBIT, Daocloud and the open-source community. 

Serving the rapidly growing containerized applications market, Piraeus Datastore fills a significant gap in the market by providing a stable Software-Defined Storage solution for Kubernetes applications requiring high-performance block storage. “When it comes to storage, Piraeus helps clients achieve better system availability than competitors in the space can offer ”, says  Philipp Reisner, CEO of LINBIT. “Most Kubernetes storage newcomers combined the data and control plane to push out a minimum viable product. By separating these components out, we ensure that controller failure doesn’t impact storage system availability.” 

DaoCloud has been a leading CloudNative computing vendor in China since 2014. They have extensive experience of Kubernetes production with Fortune Global 500 customers in manufacturing and finance industries like SAIC, Haier and SPDB bank. They believe that Piraeus fits their clients’ needs for a cloud-native, container attached storage that provides both reliability and performance. Roby Chen, CEO of DaoCloud, says: “It is very exciting that we have the Piraeus project to elevate DRBD technology into the cloud-native arena, where we believe it can play a key role.” 

Kubernetes is generating more and more buzz

Piraeus Datastore provides data persistence for elastic applications, which dynamically create or remove containers depending on the load. A recent survey of 390 IT professionals showed that 51% of participants acknowledge there has been an increase in Kubernetes adoption in the last six months. And 86% of respondents say they have now adopted Kubernetes. The number went up from 57% a half a year ago. Storage remains a requirement for enterprises that are beginning to move their applications over to Kubernetes and the Piraeus datastore solution is perfect for clients who need the combination of reliability and performance.

With Piraeus Datastore, two key Open Source technologies are packaged in a way that is easily accessible and consumable for Kubernetes users. They bring the highest performance by leveraging on the proven DRBD technology and real-world operable clusters by the way LINSTOR® separates control and data paths.

Piraeus Datastore makes proven technologies cloud-native. DRBD is under development, improvements and optimizations for 19 Years. LINSTOR stands out in the field of SDS systems by having a separate and independent control plane that is independent from the data plane. This big advantage of this separation is it makes upgrades in a running storage cluster feasible, which saves downtime and therefore a lot of money. 

Piraeus Datastore is perfectly suited for databases, AI and analytics workloads, where the throughput and latency of primary storage is required.

LINBIT SDS® is the industry’s fastest software-defined storage solution for enterprise, cloud, and container environments. LINBIT SDS leverages the DRBD and LINSTOR technology to provision, replicate, and manage data storage: independent of underlying hardware. The Piraeus containers intended for adoption by the community, while the LINBIT SDS containers are intended for consumption by corporate users. The LINBIT SDS product comes with enterprise support options, while Piraeus is supported by the community.

For a close comparison check out the following graphic:

	Piraeus Datastore	LINBIT SDS
Container base image	debian	UBI
Pre-built available	Publicly on Dockerhub, Quay	For LINBIT customers drbd.io
Support	community only	✅ enterprise, incl 24/7
Runs with OpenShift	without DRBD	✅
OpenShift certified	n.a.	✅
Kernel-module	compile from source	compile & pre-compiled
Contains	, piraeus-operator, linstor-csi and
Licensing	Open source software, GPL & Apache
Developed and verified for	and
Platforms on the roadmap

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About Linbit

LINBIT is the force behind DRBD and a leader in open-source Linux block storage software for enterprise and cloud computing. The LINBIT software has helped dozens of global companies such as Volkswagen, Intel, Cisco, Siemens, BBC to provide High Availability (HA), Geo Clustering for Disaster Recovery (DR), and Software-Defined Storage (SDS) for public and private clouds. Based in Vienna LINBIT partners with other companies like Redhat, Intel, IBM or DaoCloud to accelerate Linux storage software. For more information, visit linbit.com or follow @linbit

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About DaoCloud

DaoCloud is a leading CloudNative computing vendor in China since 2014. They have extensive experience of Kubernetes production with Fortune Global 500 customers in manufacturing and finance industries like SAIC, Haier and SPDB bank. 

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