IATC Software provides enterprise-grade cloud-to-edge data sync. The inter-Sync Gateway replication technology allows enterprise-grade scalable, secure sync between cloud and edge data centers in a distributed cloud environment to cater to the demands of Edge Computing applications.
Details
Distributed cloud deployments where data storage and processing is distributed and handled closer to the apps is growing in relevance as applications demand guaranteed high availability, real time responses, adherence to data privacy and regulatory restrictions and are dealing with massive volumes of data. This paradigm of computing is referred to as “Edge Computing”.
Let’s say you have Server in the remote cloud data centers and is responsible for storing and processing data across all edge data centers. You then have a smaller footprint of such Server in each of the edge data centers. The size of the servers in the edge data centers will be significantly smaller than that of cloud data centers since it serves a smaller population of clients at the edge. Data local to the edge is processed by the on-prem server cluster.
Let’s see how does data between the cloud and edge remain in sync. That’s where inter-Sync Gateway replication comes in. For this, you have Sync Gateway deployed at the cloud and edge data centers which is responsible for replicating data. And then you have to consider that the sync is happening over the internet, which is untrustworthy. So you need to ensure that the data is encrypted and that there are strict security controls in place to ensure authorized access to data. Further more, you can have different access control policies deployed at the cloud and at the edge and can ensure that a compromised edge does not impact the cloud or the other edge data centers.