Posted on September 24, 2008 by brennels
The Associated Press writes today that 45,000 residents were allowed back to Galveston Island after a 110 MPH wind and 12 foot storm surge on September 13th all but flooded the Island and large portions of Texas. When weather events are predicted regional Double-Take Software employees reach out before and after disaster events to see [...]
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Posted on September 22, 2008 by miketalonnyc
It’s a product launch!
Tier 2 and Tier 3 servers have been problematic for Disaster Recovery Planning since the idea of DRP first entered the collective unconscious. With a much longer Recovery Point Objective (4-24 hours or even longer), budgets often do not allow for real-time replication and failover tools for those servers. These systems often [...]
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Posted on September 18, 2008 by brennels
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 [...]
Filed under: VMware Infrastructure | Tagged: backup, Blackberry, Business Continuity, Cargo, Cloud Computing, Data Center, data consolidation, data protection, Disaster Recovery, Double-Take, Double-Take Software, DoubleTake, Dynamic Infrastructure, EqualLogic, Exchange, FFO, Full Server Failover, GeoCluster, Grid Computing, hardware upgrade, High Availability, HP, Hyper-V, IBM, ILTA, iSCSI, legal documents, Lexis Nexis, Linux, LiveWire, Microsoft Windows 2008, Migration, p2v, PowerVault, server migration, Server Recovery Option, SharePoint, SNW, SQL, SRO, storage migration, storage optimization, SunGard Dell, SYS-CON, timedata, Virtual Infrastructure, virtual recovery assistant, Virtualization, vmware | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 16, 2008 by brennels
Monday was Partner Day at VMworld where most of the storage vendors had their opportunity to present their DR solutions with VMware. Obviously, they were all centered on VMware Site Recovery Manager and hardware based replication. However, HP included Storage Works Storage Mirroring (OEM version of Double-Take) as the host based replication alternative which has [...]
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Posted on September 15, 2008 by brennels
Just Announced: Livewire from Double-Take Software
Livewire – Affordable Protection for Secondary Servers
Announced today, Livewire is an affordable software solution for full-server data protection and on-demand recovery for secondary (or Tier 2) servers that need to recover from an outage and resume normal operations within 4-6 hours.
“Livewire from Double-Take Software offers a solution to a key [...]
Filed under: Backup and Recovery, Press Releases, Product Information, workload backup | Tagged: BES, DBTK, Double-Take, Double-Take Software, LiveWire, livewire from doubletake, Migration, tier 2 protection, VMware Infrastructure, vmworld 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 15, 2008 by miketalonnyc
Hi folks, for those of you who have not yet seen our illustrious lead blogger Brace’s YouTube section, head over to http://www.youtube.com/user/BraceRennels and you can see all the wacky antics of our Double-Take staffers! Well, actually what you’ll see is a bunch of great videos covering everything from basic Double-Take technology, solutions we’ve done for [...]
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Posted on September 4, 2008 by brennels
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 primary [...]
Filed under: Product Information | Tagged: backup, Blackberry, Business Continuity, Cargo, Data Center, data consolidation, data protection, Disaster Recovery, Double-Take, Double-Take Software, DoubleTake, Dynamic Infrastructure, EqualLogic, Exchange, FFO, Full Server Failover, GeoCluster, hardware upgrade, High Availability, HP, Hyper-V, IBM, ILTA, iSCSI, legal documents, Lexis Nexis, Linux, LiveWire, Microsoft Windows 2008, Migration, p2v, PowerVault, server migration, Server Recovery Option, SharePoint, SNW, SQL, SRO, storage migration, storage optimization, SunGard Dell, SYS-CON, timedata, Virtual Infrastructure, virtual recovery assistant, Virtualization, vmware | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 3, 2008 by brennels
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 [...]
Filed under: Product Information | Tagged: backup, Blackberry, Business Continuity, Cargo, Data Center, data consolidation, data protection, Disaster Recovery, Double-Take, Double-Take Software, DoubleTake, EqualLogic, Exchange, FFO, Full Server Failover, GeoCluster, hardware upgrade, High Availability, HP, Hyper-V, IBM, ILTA, iSCSI, legal documents, Lexis Nexis, Linux, LiveWire, Microsoft Windows 2008, Migration, p2v, PowerVault, server migration, Server Recovery Option, SharePoint, SNW, SQL, SRO, storage migration, storage optimization, SunGard Dell, SYS-CON, timedata, Virtual Infrastructure, virtual recovery assistant, Virtualization, vmware | Leave a Comment »