In today's distributed environments, many enterprises feel constrained by traditional data management methods and are looking to the cloud for solutions. One fine cloud-based option is Attunity CloudBeam, a recently announced data-replication SaaS solution for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3). Attunity says that the service provides replication and synchronization of Big Data stored in S3 across AWS cloud regions to enable business-critical initiatives, including disaster recovery, backup and data distribution. The new Attunity CloudBeam service is designed to ensure that information availability in the cloud is quick, reliable, easy-to-use and affordable for AWS customers. The service provider cites the fact that organizations can configure cloud systems properly to be ready to go when needed but never pay for any services until they're actually used. Other key features include parallelized and elastic data transfer to maximize use of bandwidth, configurable scheduling to ensure predictable information availability, optimized data transfer for moving large objects and large numbers of objects, delta replication using comparative snapshot technology, fast set up with "Click-2-Replicate" configuration, and no server or appliance setup required.
