Business disruptions due to network outages, device failures or even planned maintenance can negatively impact your bottom line and tarnish your credibility with customers. The benefits of data synchronization lie in the redundancy of networked capabilities which insures constant delivery of services in -for example- an e-commerce environment and are the core of any serious business continuity and disaster recovery planning strategy. By replicating the primary network components, single points of failure are mitigated, providing the ability to quickly transition from your primary network to a backup domain when disaster strikes. There are several network management alternatives available that detect outage situations, determine device level status and perform load-balancing functions. These solutions can either manually interact with a network administrator or automatically begin re-routing traffic to a backup domain. In order to effectively implement this disaster avoidance alternative, the backup domain must contain an up to date replica of your database.

DataSafetyCorporation provides a comprehensive middleware solution called SyncSmart that cost-effectively enables this "Warm-Backup" capability.

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Disaster prevention situation

When the Network Manager detects a failure within the primary domain it automatically begins to route traffic to the backup network. The failure could be due to a damaged disk drive or CPU, a communication line outage, a corrupted database or allocation failure caused by flood, fire or sabotage. SyncSmart establishes the recovery baseline and begins tracking changes and updates being applied to the active domain insuring a constant processing capability and data integrity.

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Disaster prevented, return to normal operations

Once the problem is resolved, SyncSmart is notified dynamically via the Network Manager or manually via a systems / network administrator to begin restoring the primary database to current status. Processing continues on the backup domain until the primary database is fully synchronized and ready to begin processing. At that point the Network Manager is notified to re-establish normal operations at the primary domain.

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System requirements

SyncSmart - The comprehensive middle-ware solution, can operate independently or be easily integrated into existing Network Management environments to enhance the functionality of either network centric or web based application suites.

Easy system-integration

The product architecture permits a non-intrusive integration, requiring no changes to the customer's existing application code.

Database-types

SyncSmart provides server-to-server database synchronization for relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, Informix, Sybase, DB2 and MSDE. SyncSmart supports any data base that is ODBC compliant and supports triggers.

Platforms

The SyncSmart message server runs on an NT platform and uses ODBC drivers to synchronize databases running on UNIX, AS/400, Linux, Microsoft NT, and Mainframe database servers.

Operates independently or integrated

SyncSmart can operate independently or be easily integrated into existing Network Management environments to enhance the functionality of either network centric or web based application suites.

Flexibility in communication

The architecture permits the ability to synchronize using LAN, WAN, Internet, Dial-up, Sneaker-Net, etc.

Compatible with different RDBMS structures

SyncSmart provides efficient synchronization between different vendor's RDBMS Structures and also mixed schemas within the same database architecture.
 

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