Double Take Software for your Disaster Recovery Plan - Recovery made easy.
Even the most thorough business continuity plan is no substitute for an equally thorough disaster recovery plan. No enterprise IT infrastructure is immune from the many disasters - disk crashes, power failures, human error, natural disasters - that will inevitably stop the flow of data at one or more of your facilities. When that time comes, IT will be on the hook for dusting off the disaster recovery plan and restoring the valuable data that had been created since the last back up. Will your disaster recovery plan work?
If your disaster recovery plan includes recovery solutions from Double-Take Software, the answer will be a resounding "yes." Tape-based disaster recovery can only restore data to the point of the last backup, which was most likely the prior night. Any data created since the last backup will be lost. An effective disaster recovery plan requires a comprehensive data protection plan which includes tape backup, whole server recovery, failover and continuous data replication.
A Disaster Recovery Plan that's Comprehensive.
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.
A Disaster Recovery Plan that's Cost-Effective.
As businesses come to increasingly depend on continuous access to their data (including systems formerly misunderstood as non-critical), ensuring that their data is available on demand is of paramount importance. To avoid this problem, businesses can deploy expensive high availability measures, but they're often not cost-effective for the file and print servers that actually hold the bulk of day-to-day operational data. Enhance your existing disaster recovery plan with Double-Take to provide a solution that protects important data by copying it in real time, without the hassles or time gaps inherent in traditional backup systems. This combination provides sound protection and a better disaster recovery plan for a fraction of the cost of hardware replication or clustering technologies.
Dell Power Solutions Featured Article
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with Virtualization and Double-Take
By Kristine Lindely, Dell and Bob Roudebush, Double-Take Software
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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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.
"With customers buying and installing record amounts of storage-hardware capacity, the need for storage software has never been greater," says Rhoda Phillips, research manager for IDC storage software. "Buyers are particularly interested in replication software to help ensure that their disaster-recovery and business-continuity plans are viable in planning for recovery from any unwelcome and unpredictable events that might occur." – VARBusiness, By Chris Gonsalves, October 11, 2006
Real People. Real Stories. Real Choices.
Two Double-Take Software customers, W&T Offshore and MassHousing, have shared their data protection and disaster recovery stories here.
PODCAST: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina
Reid Lee, Executive Vice President, W & T Offshore
Interviewed by: Bob Roudebush, Director of Solutions Engineering for Double-Take Software
To listen now, click here. (podcast)
About W&T Offshore: W&T Offshore is an independent oil and natural gas company focused primarily in the Gulf of Mexico area, including the deep water. They are headquartered in Houston, Texas and trade on the NYSE under the symbol "WTI".
PODCAST: A Day in the life of MassHousing - Disaster Recovery Planning.
Thaddeus Darcy, Systems Administrator, MassHousing
Interviewed by: Bob Roudebush, Director of Solutions Engineering for Double-Take Software
To listen now, click here. (podcast)
About MassHousing: MassHousing provides affordable housing resources in Massachusetts. Their purpose is to provide home ownership and rental housing opportunities for Massachusetts residents with low and moderate incomes who are under-served by conventional housing markets.