WANdisco, the leading provider of continuous-availability software enabling
global enterprises to meet today's data challenges of secure storage,
scalability and availability, both behind the firewall and in the cloud,
today announced that it had successfully completed tests of its Fusion
S3 Active Migrator in which just over a billion files were transferred
from servers running in its Fremont, California data center to an Amazon
data center in Northern California and scanned for consistency as the
data continued to change at both locations.
WANdisco
Fusion S3 Active Migrator leverages the company's patented
active-transactional replication technology to continuously transfer
data to cloud computing environments such as Amazon S3 as it changes in
on-premise Hadoop clusters, local and NFS-mounted file systems, and
other cloud environments with guaranteed consistency. S3 and on-premise
environments run in parallel, allowing data and applications to move in
phases without disrupting normal operations. These capabilities also
support hybrid cloud use cases for on-demand burst-out processing in
which data has to move in and out of the cloud as it changes, and enable
the cloud to be used for offsite disaster recovery (DR) without
downtime or data loss.
"There's clearly a desire among large
enterprises to leverage the massive economies of scale offered by
cloud-based storage and processing and move away from carrying the costs
of maintaining and expanding their own data centers," said WANdisco CEO
& Co-founder David Richards. "But there's been no way to reliably
transfer data without days or weeks of downtime, limiting the
applications enterprises are willing to move to the cloud, until now.
Once again WANdisco has changed the game."
All other solutions for
moving data to the cloud rely on what are essentially one-way batch
architectures. They require data to remain static for days or weeks in
both on-premise and cloud environments until migration is
complete. While this may be suitable for archiving cold, less critical
data to the cloud, it's completely unacceptable for data that's used by
production applications and does nothing to address elastic data center
or hybrid cloud use cases or offsite DR with minimal downtime. WANdisco
Fusion S3 Active Migrator overcomes these limitations.
Availability
WANdisco Fusion S3 Active Migrator is available now from the AWS Marketplace. Free trials are also available.