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Effective immediately, Thirdware, Inc. is the first DRBD Certified Partner in Japan. We are thrilled to have Motoharo Kubo-san and his team as our valued partner in this market, and are very excited that Japanese customers will have access to native-language DRBD support and consultancy as early as June.

News of this exciting partnership has been hitting the presses in Japan since this morning. We (LINBIT) followed up with our own press release later in the day.

I recently came across this blog post with the catchy title of “DRBD and MySQL: Just Say No”. Now while I have absolutely no issue with people not liking DRBD or finding that it doesn’t fit their needs, I couldn’t help but notice that the post recycles some persistent myths about DRBD, which could use some correction.

I’ve tried to reply using a blog comment, but alas it seems I was moderated to /dev/null. Enter the “Write Post” button on my trusted WordPress dashboard.

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We’re thrilled to see Canonical fully integrate DRBD into the new Long-Term Support (LTS) Ubuntu Server Edition release, 8.04 “Hardy Heron”. This is the first stable Debian-based release to come with full binary package support for DRBD, so module-assistant invocations are a thing of the past on this platform. The Canonical press release is here for you to read.

We expect the “original” Debian GNU/Linux to follow suit when the next Debian release (lenny) goes stable.

We have released a major makeover for our corporate website, www.linbit.com.

The new site contains a wealth of information for our customers and partners and comes with a spiffy all-new design. It’s worth a look — check it out!

After a month of intense public review by our community users and contributors, we have made the initial “official” release of the DRBD User’s Guide.

This does not only include helpful information about building, installing, and configuring DRBD, but also on DRBD integration with Xen and LVM, Heartbeat, and many other applications. MySQL users will find the example MySQL HA configurations for both Heartbeat R1 and Heartbeat CRM clusters particularly helpful.

The release announcement is here: http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/2008-March/009071.html