January 31, 2025 — Gravic Publishes Article: Stay in Business by Protecting Your Data — Your Most Valuable Asset

In the January/February issue of The Connection we announced two new synchronization facilities: HPE Shadowbase  Zero Data Loss and HPE Shadowbase DoLockStep Synchronization Facility. Our Development Team has been hard at work and is excited to announce that both of these Synchronization Facilities are now released under Controlled Availability.

Many NonStop customers have never experienced a catastrophic outage and its consequences

• Understanding these implications, and in particular lost data, is critical to assessing business risk.
• Most customers have a backup system and a data replication engine; however, they are at serious risk of losing some of their critical data if a failure occurs, because they rely on Asynchronous Data Replication Technology.
• Transactional data can be lost during a source system failure since data committed on the source may not have been yet replicated to the backup due to replication latency – even a few seconds can result in thousands of lost transactions!

However, by using Synchronous Replication, like HPE Shadowbase Zero Data Loss (ZDL), no committed data loss occurs during a source system failure.

Additionally, the new HPE Shadowbase DoLockStep capability allows the application and the replication engine to synchronize their application processing across critical points. In some environments, this synchronization may be sufficient to protect valuable data. Shadowbase DoLockStep was designed to enhance and replace the functionality provided in the RDF DOLOCKSTEP feature.

Please contact us for more information about HPE Shadowbase ZDL and HPE Shadowbase DoLockStep.