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Double-Take® for Virtual Systems and VMware Infrastructure
Virtualization is one of the fastest-growing technologies in mainstream Information Technology (IT) today. Market-leaders like VMware and Microsoft are pushing this growth by placing increasing focus on providing customers with the ability to consolidate servers and easily deploy development and test environments. The benefit of virtualization technologies such as these is clearly evident - they allow businesses to improve their IT efficiency while continuing to drive down costs.
Double-Take Software offers two products for virtualization:
- Double-Take for Virtual Systems
- Protecting the data on a virtual machine is absolutely crucial. Double-Take for Virtual Systems is the industry's first disaster recovery and availability solution designed for virtualized server environments. Double-Take for Virtual Systems deploys easily within each virtual session to protect each individual application independently. The patented Double-Take architecture allows you to design and implement the solution that's right for your business.
- Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure
- Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure greatly reduces downtime and data loss in virtual environments, making it an ideal component for customers implementing cost-effective disaster recovery and business continuity plans. Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure replicates the entire virtual machine: the OS, applications and data, allowing you to replicate everything to any location and resume operations with minimal downtime
An effective disaster recovery plan requires a comprehensive data protection plan which includes tape backup, whole server recovery, failover and continuous data replication.
Double-Take Software can be combined with your existing tape backup solution for a more comprehensive disaster recovery plan. Double-Take is a disaster recovery software based on asynchronous real-time replication and automatic failover to provide cost-effective business continuity for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, virtual systems, file servers, and many other applications. Double Take provides continuous data protection by sending an up-to-the-minute copy of the data as it is being changed to the target server. Features such as built-in bandwidth control allows data to be replicated to a remote source, far from harms way of a disaster such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and brown-outs. That same bandwidth control allows data to be restored within minutes.
If you are involved with updating your disaster recovery plan in any way, recovery solutions from Double-Take Software are absolutely essential to complement the more commonly found tape-based backup solutions.
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In today's business climate, the high availability of applications including email is crucial. The advent of technology such as RIM BlackBerry® devices and other mobile messaging solutions means that not only can employees access email wherever they go, the expectations of email are that it is constantly available. How can you protect yourself against downtime and ensure complete data protection with 24/7 high availability?
Traditional solutions, such as tape backup and hardware mirroring, are not without flaws. Tape backup poses a potential risk in that data backups must be performed when the system is idle - meaning that as much as a day's worth of data could be lost. Tape recovery time can also be below many business's recovery time objectives (and does not provide high availability).
A more cost-effective answer to a high availability solution is asynchronous host-based replication for high availability. Support for non-proprietary hardware and storage systems means you can leverage your existing resources. You'll also get real-time data protection without distance limitations ensuring high availability for all your business-critical applications - including email.
Real-time data replication at the byte level, regardless of application, is a much more efficient use of computing and bandwidth resources for high availability. With Double-Take Software solutions all of your applications can have cost-effective, real-time data protection and high availability.
Virtualized High Availability Solutions
Implementing a high availability solution can be simplified using virtual technologies and result in a much lower overall cost. Because most applications typically require their own dedicated server, providing high availability or failover protection to these applications requires a dedicated target server. With Double-Take, each application can replicate and fail over to a dedicated virtual session on a single physical server, ensuring high availability and eliminating the need to deploy and manage multiple target machines. The result is an above standard level of high availability and application protection at a much lower TCO.
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There was a time when tape-based backup was widely believed to be the only feasible backup solution for remote offices. But tape backup alone is no longer the only realistic solution and centralized backup solutions are coming to the forefront.
As a result of this shift, enterprises have re-evaluated tape-only backup solutions and don't like what they have found. According to a report by ESG, nearly one-quarter (24%) of companies say that twenty percent (20%) or more of their tape-based backups fail. As such, depending on tape backup alone creates an unacceptable level of risk.
Fortunately, advances in technology have made centralized backup easier to manage and less of a drain on the WAN. Centralized backup solutions like those from Double-Take Software use real-time data replication to reduce the risk involved with a tape-only approach. A centralized backup solution takes the tape-only backup responsibilities out of the hands of non-technical resources in each remote office, and puts them in the hands of experts back at a central data center. It also lowers the total cost of ownership.
Centralized backup solutions from Double-Take Software replicate data from each remote office to one central location. A centralized backup solution from Double-Take Software, used with tape backup strategies, can reduce the per-location costs associated with tape-only solutions. Immediate savings with a centralized backup plan include recovery software licenses for each location, a tape library at each location, and off-site vaulting.
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