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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

DoubleTake® Software for Hyper-V Strengthens Virtualization Partnership with Microsoft®

With the launch of the co-sponsored Double-Take for Hyper-V™ Video Webinar last week and updates to the Double-Take for Hyper-V product announced, Microsoft helped host a link to the Double-Take for Hyper-V webinar on the MSFT virtualization home page. Microsoft has also highlighted the webinar on the Double-Take MSFT partner page with joint solutions, resources [...]

An Optimized Approach to Workload Backup

Backing up and recovering IT workloads with existing technologies like periodic tape-based or disk-based backup is expensive and complex. In 2009, effectively utilize your backup budget by employing an alternative solution that is better and cheaper than tape backup — with more functionality. Double-Take Software provides an alternative to a tape-only approach to backup and [...]

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 [...]