Linbit Fastening Linux Replication Solution

LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH, provider of Linux storage mirroring technology, announced a solution for data replication in collaboration with Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a supplier of performance cloud networking solutions.

The technology integration, highlighting LINBIT’s DRBD9 solution, provides mutual customers with high storage replication performance capabilities, enabling customers to replicate more data in less time while accelerating and protecting both critical applications and data.

“We are proud to partner with LINBIT,” said Kevin Deierling, VP marketing, Mellanox. “We believe RDMA integration within LINBIT’s DRBD9 is a perfect fit for customers who need to marry high performance with HA in order to guarantee always-accessible, consistently fast data delivery.“

IT-savvy organizations, such as global financial institutions, technology companies, and healthcare providers, require the dependable and rapid management of thousands of simultaneous transactions across distributed networks. Losing data or experiencing delays due to server failures or other disasters is not an option for the mission critical applications run by these organizations. And while increasingly powerful CPUs and fast storage have amplified the adoption of performance clod networking systems, CPU overhead and networking software bottlenecks have plagued solution providers by limiting data replication performance. Critical transactions can only happen as fast as they can be replicated to another server.

LINBIT and Mellanox address this challenge by maneuvering around the native Linux bottlenecks within the TCP protocol. Utilizing a protocol called Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), LINBIT allows users to mitigate network performance bottlenecks, enhancing throughput by 100%, reducing latency, and decreasing CPU usage by 50%. This delivers faster application performance with better data protection and higher availability.

“The partnership between Mellanox and LINBIT represents an impressive development for HA replication, paving a unique new way for big data and enterprise networks to scale for security, speed and always-on availability,” said Markus Rex, CEO, ownCloud, Inc.. “By combining these two powerful technologies, customers are now provided an advanced approach to storing, mirroring and delivering data in an efficient manner not available via any other solution.“

“The RDMA integration into DRBD9 replication is extremely valuable to customers as – combined – they produce the highest speed replication technology on the market,” said Philipp Reisner, CEO and CTO, LINBIT. “Mellanox equals best-in-class storage connectivity, which when combined with LINBIT, creates the fastest, most reliable data replication and recovery system available.“

Major cloud solution providers, data center operators, OEM and ISV integrators and commercial enterprises employ LINBIT’s open source software DRBD to ensure HA and DR replication. LINBIT is privately-held and headquartered in Vienna, Austria and Portland, OR.