VMware shops consider Hyper-V, XenServer migrations

By Alex Barrett, News Director 07 Dec 2009 | SearchServerVirtualization.com “In increasing numbers, IT managers have tried alternatives to VMware and are seriously considering using these virtualization alternatives in production.  A survey conducted by market research firm TheInfoPro this fall found that 75% of respondents use VMware today, but that almost two-thirds of those had [...]

Double-Take Flex for Managing Workloads TechTuesday Chat – 04/7/2009 at 3 PM CDT

Double-Take Software will present a technical deep dive into how to better manage server and workstation workloads on the www.delltechcenter.com chat session next Tuesday April 7th, at 3PM CDT. Richard Adhikari wrot a good article on TechNewsWorld recently titled Dell Dives Deep Into Data Center Market discussing the Dell’s announcement of new products and services [...]

Double-Take® Software Enhances its Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Offerings

New version also includes enhancements for application management and hierarchical storage management  SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass. – March 18, 2009 – Double-Take® Software (NASDAQ:  DBTK), a leading provider of workload optimization software, today announced the availability of the latest version of its flagship Double-Take® for Windows product and enhancements to other products in the company’s suite including [...]

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 [...]

Double-Take® Software Launches Video Webinar Detailing Double-Take® for Hyper-V™ Workload Availability and Protection

Southborough, Mass. – March 10, 2009 – Double-Take® Software (NASDAQ: DBTK), a leading provider of workload optimization software, today announced the availability of a video webinar on Double-Take® for Hyper-V™.  Produced in partnership with Microsoft Corporation and ready for immediate viewing at  http:// www.accelacomm.com/jaw/blog/0/50229994/ , the video webinar shows IT managers how Double-Take for Hyper-V provides real-time [...]

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 [...]

Microsoft Revving as VMworld Approaches Starting Line

Microsoft Revving as VMworld Approaches — The last few weeks Microsoft has been revving its engine and flexing its muscle all before VMworld approaches the starting line. What does it all mean for the future of the virtualization market? It all started a few weeks ago on February 4 when a Cnet article announced how [...]

GeoCluster – Windows from here to Timbuktu

Double-Take Software – which was founded to provide data replication for servers and their applications – has been transforming itself into a workload optimization and high availability software vendor.

Double-Take Software Compliments Hyper-V

Congratulations to our friends at Microsoft® for officially announcing the availability of Hyper-V and that it is on track for RTM, “released to manufacturing” with Windows 2008 64 bit edition. Although, it doesn’t appear that any new features have been added since the beta announcement in February, the major changes identified by Microsoft to the [...]

Double-Take Software and Microsoft Hyper-V; Providing additional capabilities to failover clustering

I got a chance to see the new Double-Take software for Hyper-V up-close and personal at Tech-Ed, and we have definitely come a long way since the days of Microsoft Virtual Server. To start with, the Hyper-V solutions are now cluster-aware, so not only can you provide a better level of Dynamic Infrastructure using the [...]