Break the Chains of Vendor Lock

Double-Take Move and Double-Take Flex break the chains of vendor lock and hardware specific solutions to provide a flexible and dynamic infrastructure solutions. Workloads can move freely, new machines are provisioned in seconds, migrated to new hardware with a single reboot, upgraded and better managed all while fully synchronized to provide complete redundancy for business [...]

Will storage companies change the virtual landscape?

There have been many articles and potentially well informed rumors floating around acquisitions lately. From Cisco looking at VMware which would likely bring big brother EMC along for the ride, IBM supposedly speaking with SUN, Cisco partnering with Microsoft and EMC makes me ponder what these would do to the current virtualization and dynamic infrastructure [...]

Double-Take® Software Compliments Business Continuity Testing for Hyper-V™

Business continuity exercises have always been complicated and hard to exercise. There is significant planning involved to test the availability and recovery of the IT workloads and usually requires extensive downtime and effort from IT managers. Virtualization technology has helped IT managers with this process but that is primarily only for local high availability testing [...]

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, [...]

Double-Take Software: Double-Take Launches Solution Partner Programme To Address Growing Requirement for Server Protection

Double-Take Software (NASDAQ: DBTK), today announced the launch of a UK partner programme for solution providers involved in the provision of applications, server and storage infrastructure solutions. The new Solution Partner programme enables solution providers to incorporate Double-Take Software’s leading data replication and management products into their offerings, providing additional business continuity, data migration and [...]

BCP Lessons Learned and New Ideas for IT Infrastructure Continuity

Businesses in the southeastern United States have been hit hard with hurricanes in the last few years, and 2008 was no exception. As a project manager and CBCP for over 1600 disaster recovery deployments I can share real examples of how entire data centers were failed over to the DR operations center in preparation for [...]

VMworld 2009 Europe [Cannes]: Workload Optimization Presentation Can’t Be Missed

There will be several great presentations at VMworld Europe this year but learning how to get the most our of your virtual infrastructure will certainly be at the top of the list. Wednesday February 25th, in the redaction 1 room at 11:00am will be one such presentation.  Bob Roudebush, Director of Solutions Engineering, will present “An [...]