Military SharePoint Replication.

Accelerating global Defense networks.

Infonic provides Microsoft SharePoint replication solutions to the world’s largest military organizations including the US Navy, the US Army and the UK’s MOD.

Infonic technology allows the changes made to huge volumes of information (terabytes) to be rapidly synchronized to remote servers or laptops to allow continuous 'offline SharePoint' access to the latest mission critical information.

Military users can actively collaborate to jointly manage mission plans within a c3i environment as well as deliver duty of care and training packages using networks that have limited bandwidth and intermittent availability such as satellite, HF, UHF.

Typical deployments involve the movement of essential data from web applications or portals, to remote sites such as ships or deployed army units.

Infonic’s server content replication capabilities are used in tandem to improve the performance of portals like SharePoint for users at remote sites. Portal server replication allows central information repositories to be replicated to remote deployed sites, and then on to mobile users in the field for remote SharePoint user access. Vital information and web applications can be accessed independently at each distributed 'tier', even when no network connection is present, with the content being rapidly synchronized later when bandwidth becomes available.

US Navy (Distance Support). In several implementations, Infonic Geo-Replicator software helps the US Navy to give sailors access to vessel maintenance and sailor training documents through portal content replication. In another application, it provides near real time information on the status of ship engines needing proactive maintenance.

US Marine Corps (USMC). Geo-Replicator helps USMC provide troops with online maintenance manuals.

Infonic’s Geo-Replication technologies hold a Certificate of Networthiness (CoN) from the US Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM). Read more.

UK Ministry of Defence

Defence Information Infrastructure / Future (DIIF). Infonic Geo-Replicator will be used to replicate MOSS 2007 across 250 fixed and deployed sites. This will involve approximately 300,000 users and many, many terabytes of data or more as the system is rolled out across the whole of the UK Ministry of Defence in the project undertaken by the ATLAS Consortium. Geo-Replicator will provide two way replication to enable full collaboration where required across all the Ministry of Defence networks, WAN, LAN and Satellite.

RAF Command and Control Information System (RAFCCIS). Infonic Geo-Replicator is part of the Fujitsu managed solution to provide bi-directional replication of command and control information as a direct support for planning and collaboration activities. Based on primarily a single UK hub with many deployed units throughout the world communicated and synchronising data via satellite, this is a standard Microsoft SharePoint 2003 environment.

Armed Forces Pay and Administration Agency (AFPAA). AFPAA employs 1,800 people and is responsible for managing approximately 275,000 pay transactions and 340,000 pensions. Geo-Replicator is used to replicate a SharePoint based Electronic Document and Records Management system across four sites spread around the United Kingdom in Glasgow, Gloucester, Winchester and Portsmouth. Geo-Replicator provides efficient use of the network which has enabled the collaborative elements of Microsoft SharePoint to be fully utilised. The system has been live since 2006.

Read about the UK Ministry of Defence ATLAS Geo-Replicator SharePoint server replication deal featured in Airforce Technology magazine, issue dated 22 August 2008.

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