Case Study: National Library of Medicine achieves highly available, fault-tolerant biomedical image search with LINBIT DRBD

National Library of Medicine - Customer Case Study

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest biomedical library, needed to rebuild its IT infrastructure to support a public biomedical image search engine. The organization required high-performance clustered storage, full fault tolerance with no single point of failure, and a smooth transition with virtually no downtime. LINBIT provided DRBD® and DRBD® Proxy to help meet these demanding requirements.

With LINBIT’s solution, NLM built a synchronously replicated storage cluster using commodity hardware, achieving the flexibility, performance, uptime, and reliability needed for its public service. LINBIT’s DRBD® technology enabled near seamless migration and strong high-availability protection while staying within budget, delivering enterprise-grade resilience at a lower cost.

National Library of Medicine