Double-Take replication software solves remote-office data backup headache for Lennox International

By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer 23 Oct 2009 | SearchDataBackup.com “A heating, air conditioning and refrigeration equipment manufacturer with more than 160 locations worldwide solved daily data backup failures and made file restores quicker by replicating data to a centralized server at headquarters. Dallas-based Lennox International issues its large remote offices a standard Windows [...]

Double-Take 101: Cross-OS Replication/Protection

When Double-Take Software released a series of products and strategies to perform migration from one hardware platform to another, many clients began to experiment with these new tools to help make their jobs faster and easier. Along with the ability to move between platforms (such as from physical to virtual), many clients wanted to know [...]

Troubleshooting 101 – is it Double-Take or the Network?

We do see customers who – for whatever reason – are seeing slow throughput on the Double-Take or Livewire connections between two servers and/or sites. It can be difficult to figure out if the problem lies with the replication engine or the network itself. There are several great network telemetry tools you can obtain to [...]

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 [...]

Hammond Care implements DR, WAN optimisation

I stumbled upon a great article from Tim Lohman this morning on Disaster Recovery for Healthcare solution using VMware, Riverbed and Double-Take. Below is a taste but follow the link for the full story on computerworld.com. Reduces network traffic, gains DR failover Tim Lohman 30/03/2009 11:30:00 Health care provider Hammond Care has implemented a business [...]

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 [...]