Data replication software supports data security, disaster resilience and business continuity by rapidly creating a data replica in a location independent of the data’s source. The software provides central management of replication policy across heterogeneous data sources and targets. Different from backups, data replicas update frequently rather than retain one unchanged copy for an extended period.
Data replication software ensures consistency for end-users accessing multiple data stores in the normal course of business. Other potential uses are zero-downtime data migration, and multi-site replication for business continuity in case of site disaster. Data replication is a necessary part of long-term data retention and archiving. More recently, data replication software is offered as capably providing real-time transactional data delivery and integration into data lakes to support big data initiatives.
Vendors boast data policy compliance, any-point-in-time recovery and failover, and continuous replication with limited risk of data loss. They compete on providing minimum disruption to network activities and low bandwidth consumption, without cost to security.
Data replication application provides the following features:
Continuous replication with many recovery points
Cross-platform replication (e.g. disk to cloud, cloud to disk)
Database replication in remote locations
Automated compliance-driven data retention
Instant failover, automatic user redirect to secondary server
Monitor replication environment via GUI
Disaster recovery simulation, testing
Synchronous data replication with zero data loss
Asynchronous data replication for performance
Orchestration of data replication, migration
Perform analytics upon data sets separately
Data replication software is available on a paid subscription basis. Pricing scales with number of data sources to be replicated, or volume of data. It may also scale with data destination, and whether or not data storage destination is managed by the replication service provider.
Rubrik in Palo Alto, California offers their appliances for "converged data managed" via a hyper-converged scale-out appliance specially purposed for data backup and recovery.
Carbonite acquired Double-Take, a data replication and disaster recovery option, in early 2017. The technology now powers Carbonite Availability, the now Carbonite supported high availability and data replication product.
SharePlex from Quest Software is a data replication software offering near real-time replication and supporting a wide variety of databases.
EMC's RecoverPoint is a data replication and protection option.
NetApp offers SnapMirror, a data replication option.
Fivetran replicates all your applications, databases, events and files into a high-performance data warehouse, after a five minute setup. The vendor says their standardized cloud pipelines are fully managed and zero-maintenance. The vendor says Fivetran began with a realization: For modern compa...
EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility is a data replication offering.
FalconStor NSS, from FalconStor Software in New York, is a data replication option.
Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager (formerly Veritas Volume Manager, and Volume Replicator) is now part of the Veritas InfoScale product family, and is a data replication option.
Hitachi Universal Replicator replaces the obsolete Command Suite Replication Manager (formerly HiCommand Replication Monitor) as Hitachi Vantara's data replication option.
EMC offers AppSync, a data replication and protection option.
Pure Storage offers the Purity line of data replication and disaster recovery products, including Purity Reduce and Purity Protect for data reduction and replication, and Purity ActiveCluster.
The IBM Data Replication portfolio provides log based change data capture with transactional integrity to support big data integration and consolidation, warehousing and analytics initiatives at scale.
IBM Spectrum Protect provides data replication and data restoration capabilities.
HPE Cloud Volumes is an enterprise grade multicloud storage solution supporting replication data storage at a monthly per usage cost.