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Double-Take Does DR for second-tier servers by Kevin Komiega
InfoStor
September 22, 2008
Double-Take Software has released Livewire, a new disaster-recovery tool for second-tier servers that are low on the priority list in most DR plans. Livewire sets up continuous full system image backups to a central disk-based recovery server that can be local or at a remote site.
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Double-Take Customer Profile: Chickasaw Nation by Dan Kusnetzky
ZD Net
August 4, 2008
I recently had the chance to communicate with Rob Jacks, Chief Information Technology Officer for the Commerce Division of the Chickasaw Nation. The Commerce Division uses Double-Take’s data protection software and was willing to speak about their experiences with the technology.
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Double-Take acquires emBoot for $9.6M by Beth Pariseau
SearchStorage.com
July 31, 2008
Double-Take Software Inc. has expanded its focus from host-based replication and failover to boot-from-SAN and iSCSI target software with the $9.6 million acquisition of emBoot Inc.
Two software products are currently offered by emBoot: netBoot/I, used to boot multiple Windows and Linux hosts from iSCSI SANs and winBoot/I, which supports multiple Windows operating systems, including Windows 2000 XP and 2000 XP Pro, and Windows Server 2003 and 2008.
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Double-Take Announces Product Line for Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization
AJAX World Magazine
June 15, 2008
Double-Take unveiled its protection, availability and migration solutions for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Support includes real-time physical-to-virtual (P2V) full system replication for migration and failover, and virtual-to-virtual (V2V) replication and failover for maximum uptime. Double-Take Software will release an edition of Double-Take designed for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, allowing IT administrators to replicate and failover entire virtual machines between Hyper-V hosts for V2V disaster recovery and remote availability.
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Double-Take Goes Hyper-V by Paul Korzeniowski
Byte & Switch
June 10, 2008
At Microsoft's Tech-Ed event today, Double-Take Software announced added support for Microsoft Hyper-V, in a move that demonstrates the growth of virtualization in disaster recovery for SMBs.
"Virtualization works well with disaster recovery because it decouples the logical items from the physical ones, so a company can move information more easily from one location to the next," said Bob Roudebush , director of solutions engineering at Double-Take Software.
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Double-Take eases virtual server migration by Tom Jowitt
Computerworld
May 22, 2008
Double-Take Software Inc., a company known for its replication software, has announced the availability of its Virtual Recovery Assistant, a tool designed to help users avoid computer downtime when migrating from physical to virtual servers.
Virtual Recovery Assistant is actually an enhancement to the company's Double-Take for Windows product, which provides real-time backup and automatic fail-over capabilities for physical and virtual servers.
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How to Improve Disaster Recovery Plans by Bill Snyder
CIO Magazine
May 15, 2008
Hancock Bank, a century-old institution headquartered on Mississippi's hurricane-prone Gulf Coast, likes to boast that it will be the last to close and the first to open when stormy weather shuts down area businesses. That claim got the severest test imaginable when Hurricane Katrina roared ashore in 2005. "We were hurt badly," says Ron Milliet, the bank's director of IT services.
Hancock's IT department, which serves 150 sites across four states, took a major hit, of course, but it could have been worse. The bank found that the relatively small number of servers it had virtualized (the project had just begun when Katrina hit) could be recovered in hours, while the physical servers took days, says Milliet. Many critical services were up within 24 hours.
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Doing a Double-Take: SCADA replication software refines Carlsberg plant operations by Malcolm Wheatley
Manufacturing Business Technology
May 9, 2008
At the Leeds, U.K. brewing & bottling plant of Danish brewing group Carlsberg, an asynchronous fail-over and replication solution from Double-Take Software is keeping production going when server failures take critical systems off-line.
Brewing three million hectoliters of beer each year—including the company’s popular British brand, Tetley's—and operating 24 hours a day, server failure used to hit production hard.
Over the last five years, explains Senior Systems Engineer Graeme Walker, server failure has knocked out the brewery’s SCADA system twice. On each occasion, he relates, it has taken IT engineers between two and four hours to replace the hardware and reinstate the system. And with its SCADA systems inactive, brewing operations would grind to a halt—with a four-hour interruption to brewing the equivalent of a loss in production of approximately 190,000 liters of beer.
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Double-Take Software Rolls Out Double-Take for VMware Virtualization Infrastructure 3.0
Enterprise Open Source Magazine
March 3, 2008
Double-Take Software has announced Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure 3.0, a solution for protecting virtual machines running on VMware ESX Server, a component of the VMware Infrastructure software suite.
The company said the 3.0 version enhancements simplify the process of deploying and managing protection for virtualized workloads and further improve on the product's ability to provide disaster recovery and automated failover of VMware virtual machines.
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At VMworld, storage vendors tackle SAN shortcomings by Alex Barrett
SearchStorageVirtualization.com
February 27, 2008
At VMworld Europe in Cannes, France, storage players Pillar Data Systems and Double-Take Software Inc. took the opportunity to launch virtualization enhancements to their respective products: in Pillar's case, the Axiom midrange modular storage area network (SAN) array, and in Double-Take's, the Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure 3.0 replication software.
And while the announcements address different types of storage products, together they underscore the fact that current-day SANs leave much to be desired when used to house and protect virtual machines.
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Double-Take Software Extends Support for VMware; Companies can Obtain Replication for $500 Per VM by Jerome M. Wendt
DCIG
February 26, 2008
Vendors that have largely staked their entire livelihood around building software based on the Microsoft Windows operating system now face a less certain future as the corporate adoption of server virtualization and VMware begins. While the Microsoft Windows operating system is not going anywhere, VMware is taking center stage in more corporate plans and data center budgets for 2008 and beyond. So it is should come as no surprise that Double-Take Software (NASDAQ: DBTK) continues to enhance its Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure product line to directly address this ongoing corporate adoption of VMware.
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Business-Continuity Planning: Myths and Mistakes by Brace Rennels
Redmond Channel Partner Magazine
February 1, 2008
Do you have a formal business-continuity or disaster-recovery plan? Congratulations! But your work isn't done yet.
All too often, companies believe that once they've got such plans, they don't need to do anything else except flip a switch when disaster strikes.
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How one software developer uses continuous data protection for data recovery by Deni Connor
Network World
January 22, 2008
Earlier this month, Double-Take Software acquired TimeSpring, a vendor of continuous data protection (CDP) software. TimeSpring's TimeData is available for several Windows applications - Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server and the Windows NT File System (NTFS). The software, which is host-based, allows IT to recover files from any point in time. Among the customers of TimeData include software developer Prescient Development in Schaumburg, Ill.
"Several years ago our clients started off with no CDP and had no real-time protection," says Scott Schimmel, IT director for Prescient Development.
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Double-Take snaps up TimeSpring by Chris Mellor
Techworld
January 3, 2008
The last of the independent CDP (continuous data protection) players has disappeared, after replication software provider Double-Take, purchased CDP supplier TimeSpring.
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Storage Vendors Trot Out Data Protection Wares by Paul Shread
Enterprise Storage Forum
November 14, 2007
Storage vendors continue to see as much opportunity in protecting and backing up data as they do in storing it to begin with.
IBM, Sepaton and Double-Take rolled out the latest versions of their data protection offerings this week, Sepaton on the hardware side and IBM and Double-Take on the software side.
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Microsoft solution provider boosts disaster recovery management at Newfoundland Power by Maxine Cheung
ITBusiness
August 2007
Newfoundland Power Inc., the electricity provider for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador based in St. John's, has taken the path towards virtualization by working with Microsoft Gold Certified partner, Double-Take Software, to upgrade its disaster recovery management solution. The Double-Take for Virtual Systems recovery solution has been up and running in Newfoundland Power's infrastructure since February and monitors data disaster recovery needs through the use of a virtual server environment.
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Review: Low-Cost Server Mirroring by Darrel Bowman & Jason Wilson
CRNtech
August 13, 2007
Not long ago, solution provider AppTech found itself recovering data and e-mail from two separate server hardware crashes at two unrelated companies. Both of these firms experienced significant downtime. As a result of the downtime and subsequent loss in revenues, AppTech was tasked by each firm with creating a solution that would eliminate any downtime.
“Double-Take provides high availability and failover in case of a server-down situation. It's a great alternative to Microsoft's Cluster Service because it's less expensive and much easier to install for smaller businesses that can't afford or maintain a server cluster.”
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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with Virtualization and Double-Take by Kristine Lindely, Dell Enterprise Technologist and Bob Roudebush, Double-Take Software
Dell Power Solutions
August 2007
Virtualization has become a key enterprise technology, one that can help IT organizations not only consolidate servers and increase efficiency, but also create robust business continuity and disaster recovery strategies. Combining a virtualized environment with Double-Take data protection software can help dramatically increase the manageability and flexibility of data recovery for critical systems.
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VMware users explore disaster recovery options by Alex Barrett
SearchServerVirtualization.com
May 1, 2007
Improving your disaster recovery posture gets a lot of lip service, but for most companies, not a lot of action. But IT managers are finding that using virtualization software can make it easier – and cheaper – to move disaster recovery out of the planning phase and in to production.
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Virtual Recovery
Continuity Central
April 12, 2007
For most businesses, ‘protecting the data’ – getting it out of the building – is the lynchpin that all other business continuity and disaster recovery aspects rely on. But often, other measures need to be considered in order to ameliorate data replication and provide a robust business continuity solution. One of these is to transform the existing IT infrastructure into a virtual infrastructure, which provides organizations with the key to greater flexibility as their business needs change.
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With virtualization, some users skip the P2V tools
SearchServerVirtualization.com
April 11, 2007
Doing a physical-to-virtual (P2V) server migration is a new experience for many systems administrators, and the process is often one of trial and error.
Certainly, there are tools to automate the P2V process, but some IT managers prefer to do a fresh install and to go it alone.
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Virtualized Preparedness
Windows IT Pro
March 28, 2007
For Seth Copeland, taking the job of IT director for Tanner & Haley Resorts in Kansas City, Missouri, meant jumping in to the development of a disaster recovery plan to support the company's 160 users. "When I first took over this position in October 2005, there was really no plan; we simply used tape backup," Seth said. Taking advantage of cost and space savings, Seth decided to implement a virtualized disaster recovery solution with Double-Take Software and VMware.
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Real-Time Replication and Failover with Double-Take - Using Virtualization for Disaster Recovery
Virtual Strategy Magazine
March 2007
Podcast Interview: VSM editor, Brian Ducharme, speaks with Bob Roudebush, Director of Solutions Engineering for Double-Take Software about using virtualization for disaster recovery.
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Double-Take Software Buffs up VMware Replication
SearchStorage.com
February 20, 2007
Double-Take Software Inc. has announced its replication software will now replicate virtual machines at the ESX level, a move users said could be more cost effective and shrink restore times for virtual machines.
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CDP - Buzz versus Benefit
Computer Technology Review
January 25, 2007
With all of the hype in the industry today over Continuous Data Protection (CDP) solutions, it is sometimes hard to separate the buzz from the benefit. For customers focused on solving real-world problems involving the recovery of business-critical data, understanding the distinction is paramount to making the right choices for safeguarding their electronic assets.
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Disaster Recovery Cover Story
Health Data Management
January 5, 2007
Preparing for the worst can be a costly and time-consuming task. But it's increasingly necessary in an electronic world. Disaster recovery technology is similar to home, health and auto insurance-you really need it, it hurts to pay a lot for it, and you hope you never have to use it.
To ensure that Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia wouldn't have to cancel treatments if it lost connectivity, Johns decided to implement a redundant system from Double-Take Software.
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Bud Broomhead and other great IT moments in 2006 By Steve Duplessie
Computerworld
January 4, 2007
Ah, so many interesting things happened in 2006, both good and bad. In no specific order, here ya go...
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Expand, Double-Take join to offer real-time data duplication
CTR
December 21, 2006
Expand Networks Inc. has announced an alliance with Double-Take Inc., to address the demand for providing continuous data replication between headquarters and remote branch locations. The alliance also aims at delivering cost-effective disaster-recovery solutions, Expand said last week.
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Turning Disaster Into a Nice Business By Tom Taulli
The Motley Fool
December19, 2006
Last week, Double-Take Software (Nasdaq: DBTK) issued 7.5 million shares to the public at $11, which was at the top of its $9-$11 range. The stock surged to $13.60 and has since backed off to $12.03. There's certainly good reason for the enthusiasm: The company is positioned nicely for a growth market in data storage.
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Host-based replication By Jerome Wendt
Storage Magazine
December 2006
While the lines of distinction among data protection technologies such as backup, continuous data protection and replication have blurred, host-based replication can play a key role in your overall data protection strategy.
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2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Health Care By Richard Gincel
InfoWorld
November 13, 2006
Double-Take Software customer, Arapahoe House wins the InfoWorld 100 Award! The project summary includes: Converted all paper records to an electronic system, streamlining operations between the multiple sites. After replacing its existing modem dial-up networks with a WAN and VoIP system, the IT team deployed a new electronic imaging and document management system, creating the basis for mostly paperless operations. The team worked with Double-Take Software to set up a virtual server environment consisting of four servers at its home site and two target servers at a remote site. They deployed Double-Take on each server to replicate and back up electronic information from the home site to the remote site.
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Virtualization: Product highlights from VMworld By Ann Silverthorn
InfoStor
November 8, 2006
At the VMworld 2006 conference in Los Angeles this week, a number of storage vendors demonstrated products that integrate with a variety of VMware offerings, such as VMware ESX Server, Virtual Infrastructure, VMotion, Virtual Machine Importer, and Distributed Resource Scheduler. Here are some highlights of the storage-related activity at VMworld...
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Lessons In Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery
By Drew Robb
Business Communications Review
November 1, 2006
Plan ahead to take care of your people, power, phones, customers and computers. Even in the best of times, balancing business needs and budgets can feel like working against hurricane-force winds. But then a real hurricane strikes.
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Making the “Paperless” Shift By Robin Blair
Health Management Technology
October 2006
Arapahoe House is Colorado’s largest nonprofit, community-based rehabilitation and detoxification center. They required a cost-effective solution to help streamline their operations, meet new HIPAA regulations, and keep their business highly available. They chose Double-Take because it provided a many-to-one failover and also offered other synchronization and replication capabilities that the organization wanted.
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Double-Take Software offers technology training By James Sherwood
IT Week
October 6, 2006
Double-Take Software has launched a training course designed to educate channel partners on its technology. The web-based training course, which is also open to end-users, can be taught at desks or in classrooms...
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In EMC's shadow: Small data storage companies create niche in MetroWest By Andrew Manuse
MetroWest Daily News
September 17, 2006
A crop of MetroWest data-storage companies is thriving in the shadow of a giant, in some cases partnering with and in other cases competing with EMC Corp. of Hopkinton...
In August, Double-Take Software, which makes data-protection software in Southborough, filed a preliminary prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to about $86 million in an IPO. The company employed 286 people worldwide as of June 30 and collected $40.7 million in revenue in 2005, up from $29.8 million in 2004, according to its SEC filing.
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Users Search for Virtual Reality - By James Rogers
Byte and Switch
September 14, 2006
Vendor lock-in, hidden costs, and marketing hype are just a few of virtualization's pitfalls, according to experts at this week's conference...
Even Nicholas Schoonover, solutions architect at data protection vendor Double-Take Software, chimed in with his own note of caution about the use of virtualization for disaster recovery. "You have to do a performance test of these types of solutions -- that is where I see most failures," he said, adding that users should simulate production loads on their Exchange, Notes, SQL, DB2, and Oracle environments.
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WinITPro Readers' Choice Award: Disaster Prevention and Recovery
WindowsITPro
September 2006
Double-Take Software was the winner of the Reader's Choice for best Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Solution: This is the first year Windows IT Pro has had a subcategory for CDP solutions, and readers gave top honors to Double-Take, the CDP solution from Double-Take Software.
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Double-Take Virtualizes Disaster Recovery
Windows IT Pro
July 27, 2006
We spoke with Double-Take Software recently about its unique approach to real-time data protection. By combining Double-Take technology with a VMware virtual infrastructure, customers can build a flexible server infrastructure optimized for disaster recovery...
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