LINBIT appoints LSD Information Technology as first reseller in southern Africa

Issued by LSD Information Technology
Johannesburg, 29 May 2014

LSD Information Technology, leading provider of IT consulting and IT infrastructure based on open source software for the southern African market, and LINBIT, a global leader in Linux high availability and disaster recovery technologies, have signed a partnership agreement in southern Africa. This partnership enables LSD to provide LINBIT's product stack to its customers.

"Both LSD and LINBIT are strong advocates of the open source software community. Partnering with each other brings the best of today's high availability solutions to the South African market," says LINBIT Partner Manager and Sales Director Peter Lemken. "LSD's technical expertise is a central building block for solutions that are unparalleled in their cost-effectiveness, and LINBIT is proud to partner with a group of enthusiastic professionals as experienced as LSD."

LINBIT offers a variety of high availability disaster recovery products, including Linux-based storage replication software for local high availability. Since its introduction in 1999, LINBIT's DRBD solution has become the de facto replication standard for high availability clusters and is now in use in a wide range of organisations and businesses worldwide. In 2009, DRBD was accepted into the Linux Mainline Kernel, making it available to virtually all Linux distros worldwide. In addition, LINBIT offers a Cluster Stack Health Check service, which ensures the optimised performance of Linux high availability clustering solutions.

"With customers such as Google, Cisco, Porsche and T-Mobile, LINBIT has proved its enterprise muscle," says LSD's Sven Lesicnik. "We are proud to be associated with LINBIT and look forward to bringing the company's solutions to our customers."

He adds that traditional storage replication is often prohibitively expensive and only an option when all the hardware is exactly the same. "With DRBD we can enable innovative replication solutions across LAN and WAN links that can assist companies in meeting their high availability requirements."

LSD

Freedom. Liberty. Emancipation. That's what LSD does. And it has been doing it very well since 2001.

LSD opens its clients' worlds by offering a wide selection of open source solutions that free them from the stress of problematic IT installations. The company not only believes in a vendor-neutral approach, but its solutions also provide clients with the liberty that only open source can. Using its ability to fuse being fun and professional, LSD makes an impact!

From managed services to middleware, infrastructure, cloud, storage, databases and more, the ninjas at LSD are amped to take on your IT needs - and help you find the most cost-effective, reliable, and most effective open source solution possible. LSD only uses the best solutions, and only offers the highest levels of service and expertise.

www.lsd.co.za

LINBIT

LINBIT has led the way in delivering high availability since 2001, and continues to be the OSS market leader in business uptime, disaster recovery, and continuity solutions. LINBIT has offices in Europe and North America providing 24x7 worldwide support, training, development and consulting. LINBIT's DRBD is the industry standard for high availability (HA) and data redundancy for mission-critical systems. DRBD enables disaster recovery and HA for any application on Linux, including iSCSI, NFS, MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, Virtualization and more.

For more information on how LINBIT can evolve your IT infrastructure, visit www.linbit.com.

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