Southborough, Mass. – April 7, 2008 – Double-Take® Software (NASDAQ: DBTK) today announced the launch of TimeDataTM, an any point in time recovery solution that allows customers to recover lost or corrupted data at a granular level for Microsoft® Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server®, and other Microsoft Windows® based applications. TimeData allows customers to quickly and easily recover from common operational issues such as viruses, data corruption, deleted files or other human errors. Coupled with Double-Take®, the industry’s leading disaster recovery and high availability offering, TimeData extends customers’ recovery capabilities to include operational recovery in addition to disaster recovery.
A common question… Did Double-Take not have the ability to recover data from any point in time prior to TimeData?
Double-Take as a product focuses on distaster recovery. This means the focus is on remote replication, monitoring and failover. The goal is to allow the customer to recover as quickly as possible with the *most recent* copy of the data available. Though we are continually replicating changes to protected data, that is very different from the industry (SNIA) definition of CDP which says that to be a CDP solution you must keep track of changes seperately from the protected data and provide the administrator the ability to recovery to ANY point in time based on those changes. Snapshots certainly allow you to go back in time in 4, 8 or 12 hour increments but they don’t provide the granularity of being able to go back in time to last Thursday at 3:54pm and recover a single email from an Exchange server.
TimeData, however, was designed to be a true CDP solution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_data_protection). It tracks every single change that occurs to protected data and saves all of those changes in a repository so that you can recovery to ANY point in time. It provides the ability to easily recover single files, databases or even single e-mails quickly. TimeData is going to allow customers to reduce or even remove their dependence on periodic tape or disk -based backup because they can go back to any point in time quickly and recover without the complexity of typical backup solutions.
Disasters come in many sizes. For site-wide disasters or server failures where the goal is to get back up and running as quickly as possible, customers will need a product like Double-Take that protects both the data and the availability of the application. For isolated data failures (which occur with more frequency, by the way…) customers will need a product like TimeData. Our belief is that customers will want to leverage the two together and the feedback we’ve gotten from customers thus far supports that belief. Customers are tired of doing backups and recoveries the way they have been for the last 20 years or more. They want something better and the combination of Double-Take and TimeData gives them that.
To learn more, please visit: http://www.doubletake.com/products/timedata/default.aspx
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