www.linbit.com: DRBD

DRBD is cost effective. DRBD provides a 744% ROI in a 5 year comparison between similar proprietary storage solutions.
LINBIT is an established company. We've been in business for more than 10 years, developing and supporting the world's most popular open source replication solution.
Avoid technology Lock-In: You thought vendor lock-in was bad? Consider technology lock-in: you invest $20K in a small SAN and to upgrade storage is another $20K. Add off-site replication? Buy another SAN at $40K and the replication license around the same price - you could have done the same with DRBD Proxy for $20K ... including software licenses, hardware and support. Click here for our ROI/TCO report.
High Performance. DRBD is designed with performance in mind. When it comes to making sure your data is in at least two places at once, DRBD has many customizable options enabling you to select synchronous or asynchronous modes but also buffer/queue packets for off-site replication as well. Additionaly, DRBD works with new solid state technology (SSD) as well as high-speed interconnects such as: Dolphin, Infiniband or 10GBe.
Modernize your IT infrastructure. Building a highly available infrastructure is a vital part of ensuring your resources are there when you need them most. Whether your need is disaster recovery, high availability or fault tolerance, LINBIT can help your organization.
Improve Productivity. When your systems are running smoothly, your people can concentrate on their task at hand, not worrying if your email/fileserver or other vital services are down.
Flexibility. DRBD is application agnostic. Meaning that it's going plug-in with any of your existing applications, as well as any that your organization may brew in house. Want to know if your application will work? Contact us.
Scalability. DRBD is designed as a block device. This means that DRBD can be inserted between your volume manager, or storage technology (such as Lustre) and achieve your vertical scale out goals often outperforming the proprietary alternatives. When it comes to safety, and speed, why use anything less than the best?
24x7 Support. When you need help, LINBIT is here. LINBIT offers 24x7 telephone, email and ticket based support. Contact us to find out more!
Cloud Ready: DRBD is already being used in a number of cloud environments with great success. When building your storage infrastructure, DRBD can easily replicate your data between data centers enabling you to build your cloud infrastructure around your flexible data design.

These are just our top reasons! We have many more to share, call us and find out some additional reasons that are specific to your organization or industry. LINBIT understands the needs of every organization are different, find out more!