Replication of data is necessary for speed, function and consistency of data applications across environments. But a key question is how often a company’s data is replicating? For instance, if a business has a four-day replication cycle, what becomes of the past three days of data in the event of a disaster at the start of day four? Some say that data is now so crucial, and nonstop replication so simple, that no company should be without it.

Jagane Sundar, CTO of WANdisco, Inc., said this is one problem facing companies utilizing Big Data in applications. Speaking about the batched solutions of other vendors, he said, “They run once an hour, and then it takes too much CPU, so they run once every four hours — often you have to run it once a week when there’s no load on the system.”

He told John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during a special On-the-Ground segment at Oracle’s Redwood Shores Headquarters: “We offer continuous replication,” adding that this issue is moving front and center for a growing number of companies.”

Time-space traveling

Having a ton of applications spread over a number of environments is becoming common, so the need to move data among them is pressing, according to Sundar. “The one underlying problem that remains is getting consistent data to all of these applications,” he said, explaining that utilizing Oracle’s infrastructure allows it to solve this to a large extent.

“The replication capabilities we bring extend the data center beyond that single BDA [Oracle’s Big Data Appliance] to perhaps a cloud instance of the BDA to perhaps a cloud instance of another distribution,” he said.

Watch the complete video interview with Jagane Sundar below:

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