Happy Holidays from Double-Take Software

As we wind down the 2008 year and everyone gears up for the holiday season, Double-Take Software would like to wish all of our over sixteen thousand customers world wide, hundreds of partners and of course the employees that make it all happen, Happy Holidays. 2008 was a record year regarding new product releases as [...]

Exciting Times for Double-Take in 2009

As 2008 is about to come to a close, I was looking back at 2008 at all the new products, features and enhancements Double-Take made in 2008. It was really quite a good year for product releases and expanding functionality to support a dynamic IT infrastructure. Double-Take has built on the patented real-time replication technology [...]

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 [...]

Business Continuity Planning for Hurricane Gustav

A few months ago I posted some hurricane preparedness tips which were a result of a poll from my business continuity professional peers. Gustav appears to be taking a track that would make landfall in the south within the next few days so, the time to start planning and reviewing your BCP (Business Continuity Plan) [...]

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 [...]

Double-Take Software Nominated for SYS-CON Virtualization Readers Choice Awards

Double-Take Software Virtualization products have been nominated in a few categories of the First Annual Virtualization Readers Choice Awards! The voting is open until November 8th and you can cast your ballot  here http://virtualization.sys-con.com/general/vote.htm Double-Take products are nominated in the following categories: · Best Application Virtualization – Double-Take and Virtual Recovery Assistant · Best P2V [...]

What’s New at Double-Take Software? Hyper-V, VRA, SRO, TimeData

Just to recap the first half of the year, here are some of the new products and features from Double-Take Software.   ·     The Virtual Recovery Assistant for P2V or V2V Migration & Protection ·     TimeData for Point-In-Time Recovery ·     Hyper-V Support ·     Enhancements to Double-Take: o    Automated Full Server Failover o    Blackberry® Enterprise Server [...]

Eliminate Downtime with Virtual Migrations using Double-Take® Virtual Recovery Assistant

Southborough, Mass. –Double-Take® Software (NASDAQ: DBTK) will showcase its latest innovation, Double-Take® Virtual Recovery Assistant, in an upcoming webinar on June 24, 2008. Double-Take Virtual Recovery Assistant is a new enhancement to Double-Take that simplifies the process of migrating to VMware® ESX virtual machines while online, with virtually no downtime. Webinar participants will learn how [...]