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Permabit and LINBIT announced a partnership today at HostingCon 2016.
Together, Permabit's VDO data reduction for Linux and LINBIT's DRBD software, allow enterprises to replicate data in a distributed storage cluster with high speed data deduplication and compression, maximizing bandwidth efficiency. In LINBIT's tested dataset, pairing DRBD with VDO reduced the replication network and storage utilisation by ~85% while increasing load by ~0.8.
Since 2001, LINBIT has been developing and supporting the Linux replication software, DRBD. In 2005, LINBIT created a Geo-Clustering software called DRBD Proxy, primarily used for Disaster Recovery (DR) purposes. LINBIT's HA and DR software works on any commodity hardware, and is now being used as a Software-Defined Storage (SDS) platform, perfect for cloud and virtualization environments. Since the DRBD software replicates data at the block level, users can replicate any filesystem, VM, or application that runs on Linux.
"For years, enterprises who were tired of paying proprietary SAN vendors have been switching to DRBD on commodity hardware for resilient storage. More recently, private and hybrid cloud buyers have been demanding open solutions to data storage," said Greg Eckert, Business Development Manager for LINBIT. "By partnering with Permabit, our clients can use LINBIT's Software-Defined Storage approach to beat both the performance and cost of proprietary hardware vendors."
Permabit recently announced the latest release of its Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) software, VDO 6 - the only modular data reduction solution available for the Linux block storage stack. VDO delivers the company's patented deduplication, HIOPS Compression and thin provisioning in a commercial software package for Linux for enterprise hybrid cloud data centers and cloud service providers.
"Permabit and LINBIT have worked together to ensure that VDO, the only complete data reduction solution for the Linux storage stack, works flawlessly with LINBIT's DRBD to minimize bandwidth requirements for HA and DR," said Louis Imershein, VP Product for Permabit. "The block level approach used by both solutions makes the combination of VDO and DRBD an ideal solution for handling DR in hybrid cloud deployments."