Two New Double-Take Software

Double-Take Software will be showcasing two new products, Double-Take Availability and Double-Take Backup, at the Storage Expo conference in London.

These new solutions complete Double-Take Software’s Workload Optimisation suite of products, providing businesses with real-time backup as well as improved protection for business data and applications.

About Double-Take Backup
Double-Take Backup provides real-time replication of data to continuously protect workloads. Double-Take Backup is aimed at organisations that want to centralise and consolidate their backup strategies, allowing them to get workloads up and running rapidly by recovering them to new physical hardware or into a new virtual machine with minimal effort.

Double-Take Backup introduces a new approach to Remote Office and Branch Office (ROBO) backup by continuously sending changes to a central location. This overcomes the problems that exist around lack of skilled IT personnel to manage the backup process at branch offices, as well as the distance and bandwidth challenges that have to be overcome. Overall, Double-Take Backup can help businesses save both time and money while offering better protection and advanced recovery capabilities.

About Double-Take Availability
Double-Take Availability is an updated version of Double-Take Software’s market-leading business continuity product. It adds new application-aware monitoring capabilities, enhances protection of Microsoft SQL environments and introduces a new way of re-synchronising protected data, dramatically reducing re-synchronisation times compared to competing solutions.

Ian Masters, UK Sales and Marketing Director at Double-Take Software commented: “We see a substantial opportunity in the backup market for our solutions, particularly for those businesses that have remote or branch locations to support. These offices are producing data that is just as valuable as that created in the head office, so it makes sense that the central IT staff should be able to backup and protect this information as simply and cost-effectively as their central systems. Using Double-Take Backup, organisations can reduce the cost of backing up data across the business as well as reducing their windows of downtime significantly.”

Double-Take Availability and Double-Take Backup will be demonstrated at Storage Expo, Earl’s Court, London. The event, held on the 14th and 15th of October, is the biggest held in the UK to focus on data storage, information and content management as well as related technologies. The products will be launched on the market during October 2009.

Double-Take Backup – New Features

• Double-Take Backup offers continuous full server protection (including the OS, applications and data), eliminates backup windows and allows protected data to be sent efficiently over WAN connections to a central location.
• Double-Take Backup combines continuous data replication with the ability to recover to any point-in-time using continuous data protection (CDP).
• Double-Take Backup makes it easy to recover from disasters of any size by allowing IT administrators to recover anything from individual e-mails to entire workloads (OS, applications and data) either to the original server, new physical hardware or to a virtual machine running on VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Double-Take Backup includes file archiving capabilities with its Double-Take Cargo feature, allowing organisations to reclaim under-utilised storage in branch offices and speed the time it takes to recover after a loss.

Double-Take Availability – New Features

• Double-Take Availability now provides support for VMware ESX v4 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2 and the ability to access the most up-to-date data immediately following a disaster, maintenance or downtime.
• The product’s monitoring capabilities now include application-specific intelligence, allowing users to determine if application services are ‘alive’, and attempt to take corrective action and initiate failover based on administrator-established policies. Support is included for popular applications like Exchange, SQL and SharePoint and the feature can be easily extended to support any application running on Microsoft Windows.
• Application Manager Support for Cluster to Standalone protection for Microsoft SQL automates the configuration and management of SQL cluster protection to a non-clustered system at the DR site. This allows administrators using SQL Server in this way to take advantage of Application Manager capabilities like pre-flight checking and target data verification.