Four Steps to Greener IT Infrastructure

Want to make your IT infrastructure more environmentally friendly but don’t know where to start? This is the first step in a series of four:

5 Common Backup and Recovery Mistakes

By Brace Rennels Server backup and recovery isn’t rocket surgery, but you would be surprised by the number of IT organizations that can’t get it right. Here are five of the most common mistakes that I have seen. 1. “Don’t worry, it’s Backup Up” Famous last words! Is it really? Prove it! Just because you [...]

Case Study: HotSchedules

Double-Take® Software Customer Profile Company: HotSchedules Business: Online Restaurant Workforce Management Needs: Offsite Disaster Recovery in a Hyper-V Environment About HotSchedules HotSchedules is the premier provider of online restaurant workforce management solutions. Their suite of solutions is designed to improve online scheduling and management-employee communications — resulting in greater employee satisfaction, retention and a fast, [...]

How can SMBs protect their critical data?

 January 13, 2010 – 7:40 am By Anuj Kumar “Just like major corporations, various SMBs are now increasingly dependent on the critical data stored on their servers. As SMBs have limited resources and vulnerability to interruptions, they are always at higher risk and generally rely on various local backup for their small business server, which [...]

Test Drive Double-Take Software in your Environment Today!

“Whether you need a better way to move workloads for migration, continuously backup workloads and recover them on-demand to a new physical or virtual machine, ensure the availability of critical workloads, or more flexibly manage desktop and server workloads by booting them from industry standard iSCSI SANs, Double-Take Software has a solution that’s right for [...]

Steps Businesses Can Take Now to Gird for Hurricane Season

By: Brace Rennels              http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67823.html “Hurricane season is approaching once again, and should one hit, the result could be anything from an extended power outage to heavy physical destruction. Businesses in vulnerable regions should factor in special considerations for bouncing back from hurricane damage when laying out their overall disaster recovery plans. For professionals in the [...]

Sneak Peek of Double-Take for Hyper-V

Double-Take Software, Inc. releases a sneak peek of a three part video webinar on Double-Take for Hyper-V. The video provides an in depth look at the Double-Take Software workload optimization solutions, Hyper-V technology from a leading Microsoft Hyper-V evangelist, and a 10 minute demonstration of the latest Double-Take for Hyper-V functionality. The Title of the presentation [...]

Double-Take Software Keeps Carlsberg Brew Flowing

It’s Friday and who couldn’t go for a nice Carlsberg to kick off the weekend. I know that will certainly be on my mind as I head down to the Boston Garden tonight to watch the Celtics battle for first place with the Cleveland Cavaliers. But as I order that beer I probably wouldn’t be [...]

Virtualization-based disaster recovery comes at a cost

Bridget Botelho wrote a good article on SearchServerVirtualization.com describing some of the virtualization vendors disaster recovery options. Near the end of the article Double-Take Software solutions are mentioned for protecting Hyper-V as well as the engine behind the SunGard virtual solution. Some virtual protection solutions can certainly be expensive when locked into specific hardware vendors [...]

Regain Control of Your Data Center

Introducing Workload Optimization Solutions from Double-Take Software Live on March 25, 2009 at 11am ET Until now, IT workload growth and complexity always seemed to be two steps ahead of the ability to manage it. Purchasing and learning new server, storage and virtualization platforms is expensive, installing and maintaining workloads on disparate platforms is complicated, [...]