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, [...]

Get Free Copy of Double-Take Move February 4th

Hi Double-Take Software Professionals, I wanted to inform you if you haven’t heard already that you are invited to recieve a free copy of Double-Take Move for live X2X migrations just by attending the:   Plan and Manage Your Physical and Virtual Server Migrations on Your Schedule Date:                February 4th, 2010 Time:               11:00 am ET [...]

DR Planning and Best Practices for 2010: Everything you NEED to know – in 30 minutes!

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Part 2: GeoCluster for Windows 2008 and Hyper-V

GeoCluster is cost effective and easily deployed as it integrates with the Microsoft cluster resources. This provides several benefits in the event of a node failure as the cluster resources can automatically roll the node, automatically start the application resources and bring the disk resource online. Some solutions state they can provide geographically dispersed clusters [...]

Microsoft Site Recovery Solution Launch

Posted 03 November 09 “Hi, I’m Jim Schwartz, Director of Virtualization Solutions at Microsoft and I’m writing as a guest on Edwin’s blog today.  Despite tough times, an Enterprise Strategy Group study shows that 31% of businesses surveyed said DR will be their main driver for Virtualization in 2009. This shows a continued shift as [...]

The Great Virtualization Management and Migration Tools Race

Kevin Fogarty wrote a good article on CIO.com about the race to provide P2V conversion products for the rapidly adopted virtualization market. “Third-party virtualization companies appear to be taking advantage of what are traditionally slow news weeks in the technology business by rushing out a host of products designed to make virtualization infrastructures more manageable, [...]

Dell, Double-Take, HotSchedules, Present Hyper-V Live Case Study

Dell and Double-Take will together again join forces to provide a live case study interactive technical chat with HotSchedules on Tuesday May 19th, 3PM CST. HotSchedules is the premier provider of online restaurant workforce management solutions. With help from Double-Take Software, Microsoft and Dell, the company consolidated more than 50 physical servers to 3 Dell [...]

Double-Take® Software Announces New Solution with Microsoft to Reduce Cost, Complexity of Remote Site Recovery

Solution eliminates need for shared storage for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V customers SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Double-Take® Software (NASDAQ: DBTK) today announced a solution with Microsoft Corp. that enables disaster recovery for virtual workloads without the cost and complexity of shared storage or storage area network (SAN)-based data replication. The solution uses Double-Take Software’s GeoCluster® to extend [...]

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 [...]

HotSchedules Leverages Dell OpenManage and Microsoft Hyper-V

Great post from Dell-Ray on Hyper-V disaster Recovery: With over 300,000 end-users of their public facing SaaS application, Austin-based HotSchedules has implemented high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) in multiple phases. The critical business need (driver) is to recover from the catastrophic loss of the primary datacenter. HotSchedules implemented Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, SystemCenter [...]