Shadowbase Development News

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John R. Hoffmann
Sr. Manager of
Shadowbase
Development

In 2014, Shadowbase Development and Delivery is focused on three major areas of development. We are, as always, continuing to enhance our core HP NonStop replication engine with new features, usability enhancements, and performance optimizations. We are investing heavily in NonStop Shadowbase ZDL, our new synchronous replication functionality. And for our Open Server customers, we are continuing to enhance Shadowbase for Open Servers (SBOS) software. Here, the focus will be on moving from our current implementation for source data collection that is trigger-based to using the host database’s transaction logs. The first database being converted is Oracle, followed by DB2.
Both the NonStop and Shadowbase for Open Server Release 5.010 are now generally available.
Contact Shadowbase Support for more information.

Some highlights of the new Shadowbase NonStop Release 5.010 include:

Shadowbase UNDO allows changes to a file or table to be rolled back, leaving the file or table in its original state as of some user defined point prior to the roll-back. This feature is very useful when an application bug corrupts part of a database or an operator accidentally re-runs a job that causes file/table data corruption.

Some highlights of the new Shadowbase Open Server (SBOS) Release 5.010 include:

Our first synchronous replication product, Shadowbase ZDL, for HP NonStop environments, is currently undergoing beta testing with one of our customers. This beta release is a major milestone towards avoiding any data loss even in the event of catastrophic data center failure, and is a stepping stone to providing collision avoidance in active/active architectures.

We are planning a Controlled Availability FCS Release later this year that will build upon the results of the beta testing to allow uni-directional, NonStop to NonStop replication, in production, with zero committed data loss. Please contact Shadowbase Sales at [email protected] for more information about this exciting new product from Gravic.

Shadowbase Development is currently working on our next Shadowbase NonStop Release, 6.000. This release will be available in mid to late 2014 and has several significant enhancements:

We are currently working towards a second quarter 2014 target for our Shadowbase Open Server Release 6.000 product, with the following enhancements:

As always, please keep us abreast of your future technology direction, needs, and wants in the data replication, data integration, and data synchronization space so we can plan to meet them accordingly.


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