Who is Active MultiSite for?
Active MultiSite is for distributed engineering teams that:
Run development across multiple global sites
Use Git, Gerrit or Subversion at enterprise scale
Can't afford WAN latency or a central-server outage
Trusted by Global Leaders and Fortune 500 Companies
Real Numbers from teams running Active MultiSite
357% ROI
with payback in under two months (Forrester Total Economic Impact study, 2013)
23 engineers' time saved
by cutting wait times at one games studio
40% faster
development cycles for teams across three continents
Your developers are distributed. Your version control isn’t.
When all your repositories live in one place, other sites pay for the distance in lost time, added risk, and extra work.
Every task comes with a wait
Teams far from the main server wait longer for everything: getting code, sharing changes, running builds. A few minutes at a time soon adds up across hundreds of developers.
One outage stops everyone
If the main server goes down, every site stops with it. For teams working around the clock, there's no spare time to fix it, and every hour offline is an hour of work lost everywhere.
Every new site adds more to manage
Opening a new office usually means another copy to set up, another process to keep things in sync, and another thing that can break.
Round-the-clock, same-speed access across three locations
“We needed to be 24-by-7 globally with the same LAN-speed performance and access at all three locations. BlueOptima's active/active WAN clustering for Subversion was the only solution we found."
Angela Thomas
Development Tools Manager
Builds 6x faster, development cycles cut by 40%
“SVN Active MultiSite has transformed our software development process. We can now run builds at every site immediately which means that nobody is waiting for a build to happen in a different time zone. The bottom line is that we improved build times by over 500% and reduced our development cycles by 40%.”
David Stokes
Development Manager
Check-ins cut from hours to 20 minutes
“Check-in times are up to 10 times faster with the BlueOptima solution – from hours to just 20 minutes. Before, trying to do that across the WAN was just useless. The benefit of the performance increase is a huge productivity improvement. Our uptime is also dramatically enhanced. The implementation was easy and BlueOptima provides us with great support, I can’t say enough about the company.”
Stephen Schleiger
Director of IT, Navis
Every site works like it's next to the server
Local speed, everywhere
Every site works from its own copy of your repositories, so getting code, sharing changes, and running builds is fast, wherever your developers are.
Work continues, even if a site goes down
There's no single server everyone depends on. If one location goes offline, the others carry on as normal, and it catches up automatically when it's back.
Add sites without adding complexity
Open a new location by connecting it to the network. There's no extra layer to build or separate sync process to maintain.
The same rules at each location
Set permissions once and they apply everywhere, so access stays consistent and auditable as your teams grow.
How every site stays fully writable
Most multi-site setups keep one main server and send read-only copies elsewhere, so every change still has to travel back to headquarters. Active MultiSite works differently: every site is an equal, fully working copy.
When a developer makes a change anywhere, our DConE technology coordinates it with every other site, so they all agree on what changed and in what order. Changes don't collide, no site waits on another, and nothing is lost if a location drops out.
Active MultiSite
Product Suite
Fast Git at every location. Developers work locally, and repositories stay in sync everywhere.
Fast code reviews for distributed teams. Changes, comments, and approvals appear at every site straight away.
Speed and resilience for large Subversion environments, with full control over how they're managed.
Manage permissions for Git and Subversion in one place and apply them to every team and site.
You don't have to redesign your development workflow
Active MultiSite fits around the tools and processes you already use, and our engineers handle the rollout with you at every stage. Your developers keep working with the tools and workflows they already use.
Plan
Teams far from the main server wait longer for everything: getting code, sharing changes, running builds. A few minutes at a time soon adds up across hundreds of developers.
Install
We set up Active MultiSite at each of your locations and bring over your existing repositories, with their full history intact.
Configure
We connect it to the sign-in and security systems you already use, so access rules carry over without extra admin.
Hand over
We walk your team through day-to-day management, then check in after launch to make sure everything's running as agreed.
Questions teams ask us
How is this different from the replication built into GitHub or GitLab?
Most built-in options create read-only copies, so changes still go back to one main server. With Active MultiSite, every site is a full working copy, which means local speed for every task and no single point of failure.
Will we need to change how our developers work?
Developers keep using the same tools and commands. The difference is that version-control operations happen against a local site rather than travelling across the WAN.
Does it work with our existing sign-in and security setup?
Yes. Active MultiSite connects to the systems you already use to manage access, including LDAP and Active Directory, and supports encrypted connections between sites.
What about our existing repositories and history?
Nothing is lost. We copy your existing repositories to each site with their complete history, so developers pick up exactly where they left off.
What happens after I book a demo?
You’ll get a 30-minute call with one of our MultiSite experts who'll look at your current setup and show you what Active MultiSite would change. No commitment.
Scale your teams without the wait
Expand across sites, repos and time zones without slowing anyone down.