LINBIT® has strengthened its partnership with SUSE to enable long distance data replication for geo clustering. The open-source alternative is an excellent solution for enterprises and service providers because it improves the economics of mission-critical computing.
The partnership provides a new capability to replicate data across unlimited distances. Consequently, LINBIT has enhanced SUSE’s high availability, open-source solution that runs on commodity hardware. Geo Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension is available from SUSE with a 60-day free trial. It guards against failures or disasters by providing policy-driven mechanisms for customer applications and data. It continues operations in another geographically dispersed data centre.
LINBIT’s Partnership With SUSE
Gerald Pfeifer, Vice President of Products and Technology Programs at SUSE, is delighted about the potential to offer long distance data replication for geo clustering. He said the following. “Working with LINBIT, SUSE has extended the enterprise downtime prevention capabilities of SUSE Linux Enterprise to handle failover between data centres no matter their distance. During an outage, customers can switch over entire data centres in real time. Whether the backup site is right next door or across the globe.”
“Leveraging open source software and commodity hardware have become the preferred mechanism to cut costs for enterprises and service providers,” said Philipp Reisner, CEO of LINBIT. “Geo Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension with LINBIT technology demonstrates that a sophisticated mission-critical platform no longer requires expensive solutions from legacy vendors.”
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension is an integrated suite of open-source clustering technologies. Also, it enables customers to eliminate single points of failure. Therefore, it helps to maintain business continuity, enable compliance, protect data integrity, maintain isolation for multiple tenants, and reduce unplanned downtime for mission-critical workloads.
Long-Distance Data Replication for Geo Clustering
In addition to application management, system monitoring, and arbitration, geo clustering must rely on fast and accurate data replication and write buffering. But this is a capability provided by LINBIT. This solution is based on DRBD® (Distributed Replicated Block Device). DRBD is the industry’s highest-performing and most widely deployed open-source data replication software for HA, disaster recovery (DR), and software-defined storage (SDS).
“LINBIT software is used by thousands of organizations across the globe. By small and medium-sized businesses, enterprise IT departments, and service providers. And hundreds of products. From independent software vendors and established equipment manufacturers under OEM agreements,” said Brian Hellman, COO of LINBIT. “Add to this over 10,000 downloads per month and a 15-year record of solid performance. It becomes easy to see why even the most demanding environments rely on LINBIT as a safe and high-performance choice.”