LINBIT®’s DRBD software can cluster any application that runs on Linux with the reliability of a SAN. As a testament to the software’s stability, it has been integrated into the main-line Linux kernel since 2010 with the Linux Kernel 2.6.33 release. Since the software performs at the block-level in the stack, its replication performance is unparalleled.

Over 15 years ago, LINBIT successfully created DRBD software in order to replace expensive SAN and NAS hardware with resilient, commodity servers. Now, LINBIT is focusing on tackling cloud and virtualization environments with their suite of Software-Defined Storage technologies. Saturn ME is an authorised Linbit Solutions Partner in the Middle East.

The DRBD software will work with any application or database and can be used to replicate multiple applications at a time. With LINBIT’s Enterprise Support Services, rest assured that LINBIT’s DRBD software is a reliable platform for your mission-critical storage.

Common use cases
• MySQL, Oracle DB, PostgreSQL replication
• VM Replication with KVM, Xen, VMWare (via iSCSI)
• Tier 4 availability requirements
• NFS, CIFS, Samba replication
• iSCSI, FC: Spindle or SSD
• Nagios XI High Availability
• HPC File Service: Lustre

Features
• Distributed Storage
• High Availability
• Geo-Clustering
• Synchronous or Asynchronous replication
• OpenStack Cinder and Nova integration
• Tier 4 availability: 99.999%
• Native RDMA InfiniBand support
• Streamlined configuration and management

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Server gives you 3 things: stability that frees you to take on your biggest challenges, the flexibility to do what’s most important in the future, and an extensive ecosystem that supports your success. Whether rolling out new applications, virtualizing environments, or creating an open hybrid cloud, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server is the foundation you need to build your business.

Rethink your enterprise OS
To put your enterprise in a position to win, you have to break down the walls that hold you back. With Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, a platform with unparalleled stability and flexibility, you can reallocate your resources toward meeting the next challenges instead of just maintaining the status quo. This is why more than 90% of the Fortune 500 choose Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Standardize on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and find out what’s possible tomorrow, today.

Freedom through stability
Business applications require a tested, proven, predictable platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux frees you to deliver meaningful business results by providing exceptional reliability and military-grade security.

Confidence through flexibility
Red Hat Enterprise Linux gives you the flexibility to tailor your infrastructure for business needs now and in the future. As markets shift and technologies evolve, you’ll have the agility, adaptability, and performance to succeed.

An ecosystem of solutions and support
With a Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription, you are connected to the industry’s largest ecosystem of partners, customers, and experts that supports and accelerates your success.

As a RedHat partner Saturn ME is authorised to sell and renew RedHat subscriptions. Please get in touch with us for more information about pricing or to place an order.

Nagios XI™ is the most powerful IT infrastructure monitoring solution on the market. Nagios XI extends on proven, enterprise-class Open Source components to deliver the best monitoring solution for today’s demanding organizational requirements. Designed for scalability and flexibility, XI is designed to make problematic IT monitoring tasks simple, while retaining the powerful attributes of its enterprise-class foundation blocks.

Saturn ME is the only Nagios “featured partner” in the region and has executed projects all over the world. We have deployed Nagios to monitor the IT infrastructure of organisations of all sizes – from a single server room setups to thousands of hosts spread across various DCs around the globe.

We offer the following services :

* Planning and design of Nagios monitoring architecture.

* End to end deployment.

* Nagios XI clustering for high avaialbility using DRBD (we are also partners of Linbit, the company behind DRBD).

* Implementation of high performance tweaks such as offloading MySQL/Mariadb and using RAM disks which is mandatory for any large deployments.

* Configurartion of existing plugins to monitor any application, service or equipment.

* Custom Nagios plugin development for business process, workflow and end to end transaction monitoring.

* Custom dashboard development – View status of all your critical IT Infrastructure components such as hardware, operating systems, storage & network devices, databases and applications on a single dashboard.

* Integration of Nagios with existing ticketing systems.

More information about Nagios including license pricing is available here.

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, infra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. Being designed for multi-tier deployments since day one, Ansible models your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems inter-relate, rather than just managing one system at a time. It uses no agents and no additional custom security infrastructure, so it’s easy to deploy – and most importantly, it uses a very simple language (YAML, in the form of Ansible Playbooks) that allow you to describe your automation jobs in a way that approaches plain English.

Ansible works by connecting to your nodes and pushing out small programs, called “Ansible Modules” to them. These programs are written to be resource models of the desired state of the system. Ansible then executes these modules (over SSH by default), and removes them when finished. Your library of modules can reside on any machine, and there are no servers, daemons, or databases required. Typically you’ll work with your favorite terminal program, a text editor, and probably a version control system to keep track of changes to your content.

Ansible helps automate the following tasks for organisations of any size : Provisioning, Configuration Management, Patch Management, App Deployment, Continuation Delivery, Security and Compliance and Orchestration.

ANSIBLE TOWER is the best way to run Ansible in your organisation. Centralize and control your Ansible infrastructure with a visual dashboard, role-based access control, job scheduling, and graphical inventory management. Tower’s REST API and CLI make it easy to embed Tower into existing tools and processes.

Saturn ME provides a wide range of infrastructure support services for Linux and Open Source Software. We specialise in hosting infrastructure and corporate Linux environments offering a complete line of support services for each category. We focus on deployment, integration, development and administrative training. With managed Linux support, your business can get on with doing what it does best, without worrying about the performance or security of the network. Call us today! Find out how managed Linux support can make your staff more productive, and your business data more secure than you ever thought possible. There is a reason the top corportations in the world trust Linux and other popular open source solutions as the core of their production infrastructure.

Linux distributions There are several Linux distributions available from various vendors and some are more popular than others. We at Saturn ME supports all major distributions. We have expertise in Redhat, Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, Centos and Fedora.

Unix Implementation and support services for FreeBSD, OpenBSD and other flavors of Linux.

Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration is an open, secure collaboration tool for email, calendaring, tasks and more. Zimbra offers all the features of a standard Exchange deployment with better performance and many additional features not offered by exchange, such as centralised instant messaging, multi-client support, integrated anti-virus (while running on a server operating system which is immune to viruses).

MySQL More and more applications rely on MySQL is a backend database. We have years of experience designing, implementing and supporting multi-master MySQL servers as well as designing large MySQL clusters. If you are looking to have a MySQL environment designed from the ground up or if you are simply looking for support for your current MySQL deployment contact us today.

Openfiler or Centralized NAS Consulting A Linux based NAS (network attached storage) is the most cost effective feature rich NAS available on the market today. A Linux based NAS can offer your company centralised storage, active directory integration for centralised user authentication, CIFS (windows file sharing), NFS, FTP, RSYNC, and many other options for file sharing. Not only does a Linux based NAS offer enterprise level features such as snapshots it can also be deployed on non name brand hardware such as SuperMicro which can offers terabytes of storage for the fraction of the cost of a Windows file server or NetApp.

Linux-HA and Load Balancing Is a Cisco ASA or BigIP Load Balancer too expensive for your company to afford? Do you really need load balancers which can cost over $100,000 while a Linux based solution can do everything your infrastructure needs for a 10th of the cost? We have extensive experiencing designing high performance linux based load balancers which are being used by many large corporations providing load balanced solutions for their web infrastrctures.

Ubuntu is a platform that spans from the PC and IoT devices to the server and the cloud. It includes a comprehensive suite of enterprise-grade tools for development, configuration, management and service orchestration.

In the cloud: driving enterprise agility

Ubuntu is at the forefront of large cloud infrastructure deployments, we have experience in building clouds for our customers and our involvement in the OpenStack project as a founding member. Ubuntu is also optimized and certified for the most popular public clouds , so wherever you choose to run your applications and services, you can always use Ubuntu.

On the client: devops for IoT

Ubuntu is the preferred development environment for embedded engineers. It is widely used in IoT devices across verticals: automotive, industrial, robotics, networking and digital sign age.

On PCs: supported desktop

The Ubuntu desktop is not only the environment of choice for millions of developers but also enterprises, government, educational institutions and anyone looking for a reliable, ease to use, versatile and secure operating system.