New Features of LINSTOR Release – July 2019 The Newest LINSTOR release (July 2019) came with a bunch of new features, and one that is really worth highlighting: The developers of LINSTOR, the storage management tool for all things Linux, announced that the latest release comes with authentication for LDAP. Software-defined storage consumers were demanding […]
The Digital Transformation The concept of “Digital Transformation” for executive teams at Fortune-sized companies is no longer a new and flashy phrase. An important part of this Digital Transformation is how companies think about cloud computing. When once, organizations seemed to have only 2 decisions: enter the cloud, or keep everything on premise; now the […]
In the tech world, a “layered cake” approach allows IT shops to enable new software capabilities while minimizing disruption. Need a new feature? Add a new layer. But like “too much of a good thing,” this approach has caused the IT stack to grow over the years. Software layer bloat and complexity can lead to […]
Having recently returned from my 6th Red Hat Summit (RHS), I’m writing this blog to answer a common question: “why replicate at the block level?” Using block-level replication, we can easily add high availability or disaster recovery features to any application that doesn’t natively support them. The most frequently asked question we heard at RHS […]
Some say that no one dreads a day of downtime like a storage admin. I disagree. Sure, the storage admins might be responsible for recovering a whole organization if an outage occurs; and sure, they might be the ones who lose their jobs from an unexpected debacle, but I would speculate that others have more […]
Innovative Data Storage Can Save Cash, Headaches, and Your Data Storage Downtime is Unacceptable When the network goes down, everyone is mildly annoyed, but when the storage goes down, “Everyone loses their mind, ” as the Joker would say. And for good reason. No one likes losing payroll data, shipments, customer information, financial transactions, or […]
Every so often we get a chance to test new¹ software. Usually this opportunity is driven by the question: Does DRBD play nicely with it? At HostingCon this year, we met a team from Atomicorp and decided that it would be interesting to see if we could get DRBD running on this hardened version of […]
We’ve been working with our partner, Permabit, for a couple of years now. Permabit is the author of VDO, a block level deduplication software for Linux. Pair this deduplication software (which also has optional compression) with our DRBD software, and you get extremely efficient, low overhead, data replication. The problem is Permabit built a solution […]