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Data integration major five-tran today expanded its platform with new private and AWS GovCloud deployment options. The company also said it plans to bring the data replication capabilities of its acquisition HVR into the Fivetran portfolio for on-premises or local data processing.
Cloud is the destination for most data today. But companies that manage sensitive data and operate under strict regulatory policies, such as those in defense, finance, and healthcare, often find it difficult to use cloud-based integration tools while remaining compliant. Security issues limit how and where they can store their data.
To close this gap, Fivetran is expanding its data integration platform with a new private deployment option. According to the company, this allows companies handling sensitive data to self-host Fivetran in their own environment, either on-premises or in a virtual private cloud (VPC). This way they can simplify and modernize their tech stacks while complying with regional, industry and company policies, including the GDPR.
Fivetran claims that this approach, which is available as part of its private deployment plan, will also lower the total cost of ownership since there is no heavy infrastructure or intensive installation requirements.
Feed the data stack
Data ingestion is a critical part of the modern data stack. Companies like Fivetran and Talend compete in this space by enabling companies to move data from SaaS applications, databases and event logs and bundle it all into a centralized cloud-based repository like Google’s Snowflake or BigQuery.
The end goal is to derive insights that would be difficult to obtain with data remaining in its original silos. Without these tools, data engineers would spend a significant portion of their time building and maintaining data pipelines.
California-based Fivetran, in turn, automates the entire ELT process. The company offers ready-to-use pipelines that deploy in minutes and automatically adapt to changes in source APIs and schemas. As a result, data moves and is stored in and between cloud and on-premise environments, simplifying access for end users. Today, many enterprises, including Autodesk, Conagra Brands, and Lionsgate, use the fully managed platform.
Today, the company said it is also expanding its managed offering to include support for AWS GovCloud. This is intended to enable government agencies to deploy the integration tool using AWS GovCloud and meet specific government regulatory requirements for handling data.
HVR now available as local data processing
Fivetran acquired data replication specialist HVR in September 2021. Starting today, the company is making HVR’s technology available as Fivetran Local Data Processing. With this move, the company says it will ensure continuous availability of HVR’s capabilities, enabling customers to take advantage of large-scale database replication while keeping data within the confines of their secure on-premises or cloud environment.
According to George Fraser, CEO of Fivetran, the company’s products can now meet all architecture and implementation requirements for secure database replication, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Companies that have failed to realize the value of their siled data, or have invested too much in fragile legacy infrastructure, can now move their valuable data without compromising security, efficiency or system performance, he added.
The company will also make investments this year to bring local data processing under a single plane of control from Fivetran, Fraser said in a company blog post. This allows enterprises to manage all of their Fivetran cloud, HVA and Local Data Processing connectors from a single user interface.
Prior to HVR, Fivetran had also purchased the Teleport Data database replication platform.
The company has raised a total of $728 million in six rounds.
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