WANdisco Announces Multi-Site Development Solution for Subversion; New Development Solution for Subversion Lets Developers Work From Anywhere, Anytime in Real-Time to Meet the Demands of Globally Distributed Development.PLEASANTON, Calif. -- WANdisco, the leader in multi-site development solutions, today announced the release of its new WANdisco for Subversion multi-site development solution. WANdisco for Subversion is the first and only cost-effective, fault-tolerant multi-site software configuration management (SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. ) solution for Subversion that uses active-active replication to synchronize See synchronization. work from globally distributed development This article has multiple issues: * It does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by citing reliable sources. * Very few or no other articles link to this one. teams in real-time. Distributed development teams can work together, as they would, if they were all at the same site, working against the same Subversion repository. WANdisco delivers LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. speed over a WAN. The excessive, error-prone source code branching that other multi-site solutions require to avoid check-in snafus and prevent developers at one site from clobbering work done by developers at another goes away. Distributed development teams no longer work in isolation. Problems are detected earlier. Less time is spent in QA. Development cycles are shortened by 50% or more, resulting in dramatic cost savings. WANdisco for Subversion delivers: --A 1,000% performance improvement during checkout/checkin. --An 80% reduction in network bandwidth usage and costs (many customers abandon plans to acquire additional E-1 lines to support offshore development teams). --Guaranteed transaction support and "self-healing" automated recovery features that Subversion doesn't provide with either its Berkeley DB (Berkeley DataBase) An open source database system that uses "key=value" pairs and is used to create indexes to tables and other data structures. For example, a record could hold a key (account number) and its value (row number), although a value can be any data structure or FSFS FSFS Five-Star Frog Splash (wrestling finishing move) FSFS Fast Secure File System back ends (with WANdisco, Subversion repositories are never corrupted, and the risk of losing source code in the event of network or server failures is completely eliminated). --Complete transparency-developers won't even notice that WANdisco has been implemented (Subversion administrators can leverage their existing skills without any learning curve). --Security features that protect valuable intellectual property and support ongoing compliance with new regulatory requirements Regulatory requirements are part of the process of drug discovery and drug development. Regulatory requirements describe what is necessary for a new drug to be approved for marketing in any particular country. imposed by Sarbanes-Oxley (group, role and user based access control can be defined to enforce segregation of duties and online reports can track every user access to the Subversion repository at every development site to provide a complete audit trail). --A dramatically lower cost of ownership with more complete functionality than any other multi-site solution available for Subversion. No other multi-site development solution for Subversion delivers WANdisco's active-active replication capability that enables globally distributed development teams to work as one in real-time, regardless of where they're located. And no other multi-site solution can provide WANdisco's built-in support for high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and disaster recovery without requiring other third party hardware and software products, as well as additional staff with the skills to support them. Availability WANdisco for Subversion is available now. WANdisco also provides migration tools and consulting services that allow customers to migrate quickly and easily from other SCMs to Subversion. For more details go to: http://www.wandisco.com/php/product_detail.php?lname=subversion. About WANdisco Since 2001 WANdisco has set out to push the limits of what can be achieved with distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. deployed on a Wide Area Network (WAN). The result of these efforts is new technology that fundamentally changes the way distributed nodes, or servers, interact to provide unprecedented levels of reliability, availability and scalability (RAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Remote Access Service) A Windows NT/2000 Server feature that allows remote users access to the network from their Windows laptops or desktops via modem. See RRAS and network access server. ) enabling the internet to realize its full potential. WANdisco has applied this technology to the development of its suite of multi-site SCM solutions for CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. , CVSNT, and Subversion. For the first time a development team can truly be spread-out across the world and work as one unit, in real-time. Global 2000 companies rely on WANdisco's suite of SCM solutions for CVS, CVSNT and Subversion to enable them to distribute work based on where their talent is located, rather than on the basis of time-zone constraints. This results in dramatically reduced costs and significantly improved utilization of scarce resources, visit www.wandisco.com. |
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