Updated: A patent has been granted to WorldSync for its method of gluing together the best of peer-to-peer and centralized database replication.

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.

New York-based Datafold has launched an open-source diffing tool to help enterprises perform validation checks during data loading.

Thanks to advances in virtualization and computing infrastructure, we saw a new breed of data replication tools which smartly sidestepped the limitations and constraints of their earlier kin.

Last time, I raised the issue that modern disaster recovery strategies require near real-time data replication to ensure that data is protected almost as soon as it is created. Furthermore, the ...

Are you looking for ease of use? Some tools allow the IT staff to offload replication tasks to the people who are actually in charge of the data — database administrators, for example.

* Replication and disaster recovery in an IP world While the press concentrates on IP-based storage-area networks, it seems that every conversation with vendors or end users about IP storage ...

Databricks announced its intention to acquire Arcion, an enterprise data replication specialist and a part of the Databricks Ventures portfolio.

A Gartner Magic Quadrant Report looks at the top data integration tool vendors, including SAP and Informatica.

Autonomous and elastic Two key features that Oracle is banking on to drive interest in the cloud-based data replication tool are its autonomous capabilities and elasticity.