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Syncsort Incorporated
Company type	Private
Industry	Enterprise software; IT Services
Founded	1968
Headquarters	Woodcliff Lake,New Jersey, USA
Website	Syncsort Incorporated

Syncsort Incorporatedis a privately heldsoftwarecompany specializing in the development and sale ofdata integration,data protectionanddata sortingand data manipulation products forWindows,Unix,Linux,and mainframe systems. According to its website,^[1]Syncsort products are used by over 90 of theFortune 100companies and can be found in over 12,000 customer sites worldwide. These customers operate in a range of industries includingmanufacturing,consumer goods,transportation,local and federalgovernments,andhealth care^[2].Syncsort is headquartered in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, USA. It has offices in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, with an international support center in The Netherlands.

Products

Syncsort sells to large and medium-sized businesses. Syncsort marketing emphasizes speed. It's products are designed to back up and recover data rapidly in distributed, heterogenous environments and to speed data warehouse processing, database loads, and query performance. Syncsort offers its solutions through three families of products:DMExpress,Backup Express,andSyncSort.

DMExpress

DMExpress is a data management product, typically used forETL,data warehousing,andbusiness intelligenceapplications.^[3]The program transforms and consolidates disparate data from multiple sources. System administrators and analysts can use DMExpress to create and maintain aggregatedata storesfrom flat files and to pre-process data to speed database loads and to optimize reporting.^[4]Syncsort is also used for changed data capture (CDC) operations.^[5]Syncsort markets DMExpress primarily on the basis of speed and CPU efficiency.^[6]

Backup Express

Backup Express is used fordisaster recoveryandbusiness continuity.Backup Express integrates snapshot, image and rapid recovery options, works acrossFibre ChanneloriSCSInetworks while sharing all enterprise drives, and supportsNDMPincrmentals.^[7]Utilizing D2D techniques, including block-level incremental backups and image-based storage, Backup Express offers recovery in place, server re-imaging, and thin cloning capabilities.^[8]According to Syncsort's website, the Backup Express D2D capability typically increases backup speed by 90%, minimizes data storage by a ratio of 26:1, and reduces bandwidth usage by more than 90% when compared to file-level, tape-based backups.^[9]

Backup Express is certified for use with most vendors ofSAN,NAS,disk-storage, tape libraries, switched, and operating systems. Syncsort maintains strategic partnerships for Backup Express, includingNovell,IBM,Oracle,SAP,NetApp,VMWare,andMicrosoft.^[10]

SyncSort

The SyncSort family of products providedata sortingand transformation capabilities for mainframe systems as well as UNIX, Windows, Linux.^[11]Primarily marketing on the basis of claimed superiority in processing speed and CPU efficiency for large volumes of data, Syncsort's sort products also provide standard data transformation capabilities such as filtering, reformatting, converting, and summarizing.^[12]

SyncSort for z/OS

SyncSort for z/OS is a sort/merge/copy and data management utility designed to exploit the zSeries computers and the z/OS operating system's advanced facilities, including theIBM MIDAWand System z9 Integrated Information Processors (zIIP). SyncSort for z/OS also supportsS/390,theOS/390operating system, and compatible computers.^[13]Syncsort's brochure on the product claims that it's technology, including proprietary sorting algorithms, "improves sort performance while optimizing overall system efficiency."^[14]

SyncSort VSE

SyncSort VSE is a sort/merge/copy program for IBMz/VSEandVSE/ESAoperating systems. Like SyncSort for z/OS, SyncSort VSE is designed to reduce CPU resources.

Other Syncsort Products

Two other add-on products work with SyncSort for z/OS.PipeSorteliminates the I/O overhead for large sorts with multiple input. Syncsort claims that PipeSort parallel sort technology can reduce the overall elapsed processing time by more than 50% compared with running separate sort operations.^[15]According to Syncsort's website,PROC SYNCSORTis a performance-boosting replacement for SAS® PROC SORT.^[16]A third ancillary product is FilePort, a data conversion tool used for migration between mainframe and UNIX environments.

References

[1] Syncsort Company About Us Page

[2] Hoovers' Syncsort Company Description

[3] Audio Interview with Syncsort's Rich Pilkington

[4] Database Journal Product Guide

[5] Using DMExpress for Changed Data Capture Applications White Paper

[6] DMExpress Homepage

[7] Lynx Technologies

[8] Storage Switzerland

[9] Backup Express Homepage

[10] Backup Express Partner Page

[11] PC Pro Research Paper

[12] SyncSort Homepage

[13] SyncSort for z/OS 1.3 Press Release

[14] SyncSort for z/OS Product Brochure

[15] PipeSort Homepage

[16] PROC Syncsort Homepage

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