Double-Take® Software Announces New Workload Optimization Suite

Offering Enables IT Managers to Easily Migrate, Backup, Protect and Flexibly Run Physical and Virtual IT Workloads   Southborough, Mass. – April 6, 2009 – Data center disasters are every IT manager’s worst nightmare; but that’s only the tip of the iceberg.  Managing today’s complex IT workloads entails more than just data recovery.  Workload management [...]

Double-Take Software @ VMworld Day 2 and 3

The last few days I have attended many sessions focused around “Dynamic IT”, “Next Generation Datacenter” and or “Cloud Computing” but as expected most of the presentations have been hardware companies putting forth their solutions and or concepts. The Cloud Computing discussion I sat in made me think that not anyone really knows what the [...]

Reduce Tape Restoration with TimeData Operational Recovery Part 2

TimeData Remote Recovery This design is almost a mirror image of the first where it may not be necessary to have the TimeData repository locally where retrieval isn’t performed often but still available if need. The TimeData repository is now located at the disaster recovery facility so operational recovery is still an option should the [...]

Reduce Tape Restoration with TimeData Operational Recovery Part 1

Have you ever accidently deleted an e-mail or worse yet an entire mailbox and wished you had it back? How about you were the one that opened the virus contaminated e-mail that spread throughout your organization, on your behalf? In these times you wish for something straight out of a H.G. Wells novel. A time [...]

Using Double-Take Software to Migrate, Consolidate and Protect Heterogeneous Servers and Storage

In heterogeneous storage environments, a lack of interoperability can be a critical barrier to effective data management. Double-Take® software helps overcome this challenge by providing a cost-effective, simplified way to migrate, consolidate, and protect data in these environments, including those using multiple types of Dell™ servers and storage. Enterprise data centers often include multiple types [...]

What’s New at Double-Take Software? Hyper-V, VRA, SRO, TimeData

Just to recap the first half of the year, here are some of the new products and features from Double-Take Software.   ·     The Virtual Recovery Assistant for P2V or V2V Migration & Protection ·     TimeData for Point-In-Time Recovery ·     Hyper-V Support ·     Enhancements to Double-Take: o    Automated Full Server Failover o    Blackberry® Enterprise Server [...]

64-bit and Double-Take

I’ve fielded a lot of questions from clients about what Double-Take Software can do on x64 systems.  For the record, nearly all of our solutions are supported on 64-bit systems, both from AMD and Intel. We also have limited support for Itanium, though there is a different licensing structure for that, and not all products [...]

Failing….Forward?

One of the SE’s here at Double-Take recently came up with a great new way to describe the process of Full-server Failover – Failing Forward.  The idea is that you’re not just flipping over to the Target, but rather moving the Source from one physical machine to another.  When you’re ready to go back to [...]

Moving Exchange Subnets Using Double-Take 5.0

 A good engineer that I worked with on a Dell project contacted me yesterday and brought up a good question. He is working with a client in New England and they are in the process of planning to move their Exchange Server to a different site subnet. Because Exchange is so tightly integrated with Active [...]

Application Failover or Full Server Failover, which works best for Exchange?

Granted, since this is a Double-Take blog, the answer is of course going to be “both,” but each does have advantages and disadvantages.  Application Failover using the Double-Take Application Manager (DTAM) and Full-Server Failover using the Full-server Failover Option (FFO) can both safely and effectively be applied to Exchange 2000 and higher servers, and both [...]