Google Apps now does synchronous data replication

Google says it has added synchronous data replication to its Google Apps lineup. Replication involves making exact copies of digital files to protect against disasters, and synchronous replication means that changes to the original digital data is instantly propagated across the various copies. Of course, this being Google, the files are broken up into "chunks" and stored on random servers scattered across the many Google data centers around the world.

Google told eWeek that it has been using replication for Gmail for years, and has now extended the feature to all its services. Rajen Sheth, Senior Product Manager of Google Apps noted that Google Apps customers can now "get best-in-class disaster recovery for free, no matter their size."

Sheth also (indirectly) confirmed that no disaster at one geo-location will result in lost data, "...we have very high speed connections between data centers, so that we can transfer data very quickly from one set of servers to another. This let us replicate large amounts of data simultaneously."

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