Aggregating data from off-premises databases involves governance and security challenges that traditional network solutions aren’t necessarily equipped to address. Aggregation also yields latency and bandwidth constraints which can be barriers to analytics in geographically dispersed enterprises.

Attunity, a Burlington, MA.-based provider of replication software, is tearing down these barriers with a new solution for large-scale heterogeneous environments. Attunity Replicate 3.0 comes with a WAN data transfer engine that provides “advanced resiliency and three levels of advanced security” for low-bandwidth satellite connections and long-distance replication to or from the cloud.

Attunity claims that its platform is two to three times faster than rivaling replication solutions, which makes it better suited for network-intensive use cases such as business intelligence, business continuity and disaster recovery. To accommodate these workloads, Replicate 3.0 adds support for HP Vertica and SAP Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE).

On the security side, Attunity’s solution offers an auditing function that lets admins monitoring replication activities and leverage third party alerting technologies to keep track of database changes.

“Companies know that in order to maximize the value of data, they need to ensure that their data is as accurate and timely as possible,” explained Lawrence Schwartz the vice president of marketing at Attunity. “Attunity Replicate 3.0 frees up the bottleneck caused by the complexity of loading large data volumes and can now go the distance with its new secure WAN capability, which we believe offers the broadest range of platform support available and allows the highest performance levels.”

Earlier this week, NetApp announced that it will enhance its SnapMirror replication tool to support secure replication to private and public clouds. The update underlines the vendor’s plans to establish its ONTAP storage OS as a universal data platform for cloud environments of all shapes and sizes.