70 UK Organisations Relying on Double-Take Products

Vision
Solutions, Inc. announced that more than 70 organisations in the UK
are now relying on its real-time data replication products in order to protect
their business data in the cloud.

Through its Cloud Protection
and Recovery Programme, Vision Solutions is working with 24 service providers
in the UK to provide customers with business continuity
and cloud recovery services that protect their IT systems and
applications.

Visions
Solutions’ Double-Take products provide real-time replication of data from any
Windows, Linux or virtual machine environment, allowing service providers to
protect the whole mix of servers that a customer might have in place with one
solution. As any changes are made on the customer’s servers, these can be
automatically sent over to the second site, providing protection for the data
while also keeping bandwidth requirements low. Using Double-Take, service
providers can offer different levels of availability and recovery solutions
from straight replication to full recovery in the cloud.

The
customers that are using cloud-hosted disaster recovery services based on
Double-Take cover a variety of vertical markets, from financial
services and legal firms through to the public sector. For example, IT Assist,
the ICT shared services for the Northern Ireland Civil Service, has chosen
Double-Take Availability as the data replication platform at the heart of its
disaster recovery services. These are now offered out to the various
departments as an optional service for data protection and recovery.

"Double-Take was chosen after rigorous
testing for its simplicity and flexibility and allows us to replicate data and
system state information from any of our locations to the centralised DR
infrastructure. Double-Take works with the varied hardware and storage
platforms we have in place and provides real-time replication of data, allowing
us to recover from the smallest of outages to complete site failures without
the need for identical infrastructure," said John Nugent, Host
Infrastructure Manager at IT Assist. "Organisations
within the NICS can sign up for the service to protect their applications
against the risk of failure and ensure that their operations remain up and
running at all times."

"We have been working with service providers
in the UK to ensure that they can offer effective and easy-to-use solutions for
business continuity using a cloud computing model, and the customer growth that
we have seen so far shows that there is a demand for these kinds of offerings
in the market," commented Ian Masters, sales director UK & Ireland
for Vision Solutions. "Our partners
can use the real-time nature of our data replication products in order to
create differentiated cloud services that meet the needs of their customers,
whatever platform they happen to have in place. By providing this ability to
work across different virtualisation platforms, operating systems and server
hardware, it opens up the range of opportunities that are out there for our
partners and helps customers ensure that their critical applications are
protected."

"We have built a disaster recovery service
called CloudCover for our customers that includes Double-Take for moving data
from our customer sites and onto our own cloud environment. Because it supports
replication across multiple platforms and over any distance, it means that we
can support whatever servers and applications our customers may have in place.
That makes it applicable for more organisations to move over to the cloud for
their recovery and continuity needs, and also means that it is easier for us to
provide the service," said Richard May, managing director at
VirtualDCS.