When It Comes to Server Migration, You Can Learn a Lot From a Twit

By Brace Rennels TechNewsWorld 01/18/10 6:00 AM PT “Twitter isn’t just for meaningless banter and celeb gossip. It can be a wealth of professional insight if you know how to use it right. IT pros, for instance, can pick up a lot of tips about server migration by polling their fellow twitterers, aka “twits.” Also, [...]

Five IT Focal Points for 2010

01/05/2010 What should IT focus on this year? Some key issues from 2009 remain, but several new areas will need IT’s attention. by Brace Rennels “The top IT trends last year were all about consolidation and cost savings. Many involved server and storage consolidation, energy-efficient blade technology, virtualization, and cloud computing. Most of these trends [...]

Double-Take Move Review

From the January 2010 Edition of Windows IT Pro Russell Smith Like most IT professionals, I’ve been involved in many hardware migration projects. After reading that Double-Take Move “revolutionizes the migration process with real-time data movement” (from Double-Take Software’s website), I wondered if this product could solve my migration woes. Double-Take Move transfers data and [...]

Migration and the Meaning of Christmas

By Tim Green | Senior Information Technology Consultant DTM Systems Corporation Tim Green at DTM Systems in Vancouver, BC sent this to me (http://nicholasschoonover.com/)  today and I had to share. Tim is a great engineer that I’ve know for years and he does a job bridging business requirements to technical implementation. I have a lot of [...]

Meeting the Constant Challenges of Desktop Management

Provisioning Windows 7 Easily with Double-Take Flex By Brace Rennels September 8, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Desktop management is a constant challenge for most IT or call center managers. A new update, service pack or totally new version of operating system can cause headaches for even the most experienced IT professional. The challenges with provisioning [...]

Double-Take Software: So much more than data replication

I read an article the other day that referred to Double-Take software as a data replication product. I didn’t take offense because Double-Take Software has certainly been known as the leader in the data replication, disaster recovery and high availability product of choice for business critical applications like Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, IIS, Oracle, SharePoint [...]

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, [...]

5 tips for moving, consolidating and protecting your data center

5 tips for moving, consolidating and protecting your data center was posted on CIO.com today and thought it was some good information to share. Follow the link to find the original post. here are several challenges when attempting a data center move or even just consolidation. Availability is the number one priority. All the systems [...]

Double-Take Software revolutionize’s the migration process

Traditionally, server migration is complex, time-consuming and expensive. Disparate hardware requires manual configuration, data and applications are offline during moves and IT staff are trapped in the office on weekends trying to make it all work. Now, there’s another option: Double-Take® Move continuously captures byte-level changes to a server’s OS, applications and data and replicates [...]

VMware Expert Session: Keeping Data Current Throughout the P2V Process

VMworld VRA Expert Session Overview Though server virtualization technology has changed the IT landscape for the better in many ways, it has also presented several new challenges. One of the chief concerns that IT decision makers face is how to most effectively migrate between disparate server and storage infrastructures without halting production applications or requiring [...]