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Genoo moves entire database using dbShards/Migrate software

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BROOMFIELD, USA: A new continuous replicatiobn technology solution from CodeFutures, dbShards/Migrate, eliminates the major downtown typically associated with migrating a large database for an application across data centers or cloud environments.

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Genoo, a cloud-based provider of online marketing tools and automation for small and mid-sized companies, used dbShards/Migrate was able to successfully move its database from a private hosting environment to Google's Cloud SQL with a maintenance window of less than one-minute. The company was also able to perform the migration multiple times for testing from different databases and different hosting environments, including another cloud, without experiencing downtime for its users.

Kim Albee, president of Genoo, said: "dbShards/Migrate gives us the freedom to choose any cloud environment to host our database with little to no down time, which is crucial for our end-users that rely on our online marketing tools and services to be accessible 24/7. This also gives us the ability to grow and offer our customers around the world an agile environment in which they know their data is safe and uptime is maximized."

dbShards/Migrate can also be used to maintain a warm-standby Disaster Recovery (DR) environment to protect against catastrophic failure by continuously replicating the source database to the DR site. It can even perform the process in reverse during recovery from a primary site failure. Additionally, dbShards/Migrate can reliably replicate to multiple remote environments, making a database geographically accessible around the world.

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