Houston Hurt but Business Operations Remain During Hurricane Ike

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 [...]

LiveWire is … well … live!

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 [...]

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 [...]

Double-Take @ VMworld Day 1

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 [...]

Livewire – Affordable Protection for Secondary Servers

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 [...]

Live (almost) and in person!

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 [...]

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 primary [...]

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 [...]