The Importance of Cloud, Array-based Processing Support, and Announcing Shadowbase Solutions for Other Server Software Version 6.820

Why the Cloud Matters

As enterprises increasingly move workloads to hybrid and cloud environments, the demand for fast, reliable, data streaming across the enterprise grows. However, cloud-hosted databases often introduce higher latency than local systems, which can slow traditional row-at-a-time replication. Delays in replicating mission-critical data not only impact operational performance but can also affect reporting, analytics, and decision-making. Using stale data to make decisions is clearly not optimal. Efficient replication to cloud environments ensures that organizations maintain accurate, up-to-date information across all platforms, supporting both business continuity and innovation.

Shadowbase version 6.820 unlocks new capabilities for organizations leveraging cloud and hybrid environments. By batching multiple database events into single messages, array-based replication reduces network overhead, accelerates data delivery, and ensures timely availability of transactional information. This enables enterprises to replicate and stream more data, more quickly, while minimizing the impact on source systems. Organizations can now support real-time reporting, analytics, operational monitoring, and other cloud-based applications without compromising performance or reliability.

How Shadowbase Can Help

Shadowbase version 6.820 introduces array-based replication processing across a variety of operating systems and databases.

Key enhancements include:

• Massive performance improvement: array-based processing for all of the supported Shadowbase target databases, including SQL/MX, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Db2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SAP HANA, etc., environments – Efficiently replicates and streams data both to and from Nonstop systems, ensuring timely synchronization across distributed architectures.
  • This enhancement dramatically improves Nonstop and Cloud database integration performance, as well as when performing initial target database loading to any on-prem or remote target database.
• Expanded database and OS (Operating System) support – Most target databases can now leverage array-based data streaming and replication, with consistent behavior across a variety of platforms.
• Improved error handling – New variables provide flexibility for handling unexpected events.
• Improved columnar database integration – this enhancement dramatically improves Shadowbase integration with columnar databases as it implements a new column-binding feature.
• Simplified configuration – Environment variables can be automatically detected, reducing setup complexity and easing upgrades in complex environments.

Array-based replication is particularly valuable for high-latency or cloud-hosted targets, where consolidating multiple events into single messages reduces the number of round trips required. This approach minimizes network traffic, accelerates replication, and allows enterprises to maintain real-time access to critical data, without impacting the source HPE Nonstop system.

Organizations adopting cloud should consider Shadowbase for Other Servers version 6.820 to confidently replicate their HPE Nonstop mission-critical data to cloud and hybrid environments, ensuring consistency, reliability, and operational efficiency. By combining advanced array-based processing with robust error handling and simplified configuration, Shadowbase software empowers IT teams to distribute enterprise data quickly and reliably across the enterprise while supporting scalable growth and innovation.

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