Replication excels at providing immediate data availability, but it shouldn’t be the sole safeguard against human errors, data corruption, or cyberattacks. Data replication has stood the test of time, ...

A while ago, I wrote about the growing number of disaster recovery options available to companies (see “Small companies need DR too”). The selection of replication, snapshot and continuous data ...

Duplicates are often the exact opposite of what we want. The discovery of one’s evil clone, for instance, would be far from an ideal scenario, in most people’s minds. In all seriousness, though, one ...

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Sybase, Inc. has announced the general availability of Sybase Replication Server 15, a data movement product that synchronizes operational data across mixed database environments in near real time.

Backup is a key component of any good data protection strategy. But does the advent of virtualisation mean traditional backup can be replaced by new data protection methods, such as replication, ...

Duplicates are often the exact opposite of what we want. The discovery of one’s evil clone, for instance, would be far from an ideal scenario in most people’s minds. In all seriousness, though, one ...