Double-Take and Vision Solutions Strengthen Disaster Recovery Solutions

Irvine, Calif. (July 26, 2010) Today Vision Solutions, Inc. announced that it has completed the acquisition of Double-Take Software, Inc., a leading provider of recovery solutions for the rapidly growing Windows, Linux and Cloud Computing markets. The acquisition significantly expands Vision Solution’s product offerings and distribution capabilities in the Windows and open systems markets, and [...]

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® Software Announces New Version of Double-Take® Move with Full VMware vSphere™ 4 Support

Southborough, Mass. – September 1, 2009   News from VMworld 2009:   Double-Take® Software Announces New Version of Double-Take® Move with Full VMware vSphere™ 4 Support   Company Also Receives VMware Ready™ Certification for Double-Take® Flex Storage Server   Key Facts • Double-Take® Software (NASDAQ: DBTK) today announced two major virtualization developments: the release of Double-Take® [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Will storage companies change the virtual landscape?

There have been many articles and potentially well informed rumors floating around acquisitions lately. From Cisco looking at VMware which would likely bring big brother EMC along for the ride, IBM supposedly speaking with SUN, Cisco partnering with Microsoft and EMC makes me ponder what these would do to the current virtualization and dynamic infrastructure [...]

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 [...]