DEI introduced SyncDat at the LinuxWorld / Next Generation Data Center Conference, in San Francisco. "LinuxWorld was the ideal venue to debut SyncDat", stated Dr. Seth Noble, president and founder of DEI. "We talked to so many people who have felt the pain of trying to use rsync or CIFS over the WAN."

File synchronization software scans local and remote directory structures tofind changes, then transfers only the updated files. Traditional solutions were designed for Local Area Networks (LANs). When faced with the latency and congestion of a Wide Area Network (WAN), they suffer tremendous performance penalties. Delays in tasks such as content distribution, backups, and data mirroring can impinge on business critical processes with costly results.

"LAN software can really thrash both the network and the local disks", explained Dr. Noble. "SyncDat makes much more efficient use of both, letting it move data faster while at the same time reducing system strain."