Virtualization Technologies and Their Impact on Disaster Recovery
Virtual server technologies provide companies with the ability to do more with less, enabling the consolidation of data and applications onto a single server. The result is reduced costs, simplified IT management, and minimized space requirements. The need to protect these virtualized systems is paramount and in situations where companies are looking to reduce the costs associated with disaster recovery planning, virtualization can enable easier recovery without a great deal of additional cost. Read this white paper to learn more about enterprise-class disaster recovery and high availability solutions for cutting-edge virtual environments.
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Protecting SharePoint with Double-Take for Windows 5.0
As the distributed workforce grows, the need for online collaboration and document management grows with it. Microsoft SharePoint® streamlines online collaboration, making it possible to create remote project teams with just an Internet connection. However, when project teams aren’t functioning because they can’t access data or critical applications like SharePoint, your business risks losing money at an alarming rate. Protecting your SharePoint data and access with Double-Take is a cost efficient and effective way to protect your profitability. When recoverability matters, depend on Double-Take Software to protect and recover business critical data and applications.
Maximizing data center uptime with business continuity planning
Next to ensuring the safety of your employees, the next most important business continuity task is resuming business critical operations. Keeping servers highly available and easily manageable is likely what keeps most data center managers up at night. There is a higher probability that most data centers will be affected by a virus, hardware failure, power failure or upgrade gone wrong than by a disastrous weather-related event like wind, fire or rain. However, having a co-location and planning for the smallest interruption of business operations will help ensure your ability to provide the same level of service in any circumstance.
Full-Server Protection and Recovery In Real-Time
The complexity of traditional recovery solutions compounds an already difficult situation and heightens the opportunity for human error. Speed and quality of recovery are extremely important when customers and employees are relying on access to critical data, but the average restoration takes hours at best. With solutions like tape backup, even a successful recovery results in the loss of any data that has changed since the backup was made. The Double-Take® Server Recovery Option is a whole-server data protection product that, when combined with the real-time data replication capabilities of Double-Take® for Windows, simplifies the restoration process and reduces the time and effort involved with server recovery.
Recoverability in Regulated Industries: When Protecting your Data isn't Optional
If you are on the consumer side of the thousands of regulations imposed by the U.S.
government, just knowing they exist probably gives you some peace of mind. However, if you are
on the compliance side of these complex and ever-changing regulations, you know that staying
compliant is a constant tug-of-war between resources and regulation. Acting responsibly on
behalf of your consumers and ensuring that your company avoids fines brought on by noncompliance
means staying on top of regulatory legislation. Using software products for data
replication, application availability and system state protection from Double-Take Software can
reduce the costs of managing a data protection strategy while increasing confidence that your
systems remain compliant and your data and applications remain available.
Recoverability and Regulation in the U.K.
If you are on the consumer side of the thousands of regulations imposed by the British
government, just knowing they exist probably gives you some peace of mind. However, if you are
on the compliance side of these complex and ever-changing regulations, you know that staying
compliant is a constant tug-of-war between resources and regulation. Acting responsibly on
behalf of your consumers and ensuring that your company avoids fines brought on by noncompliance
means staying on top of regulatory legislation. Using software products for data
replication, application availability and system state protection from Double-Take Software can
reduce the costs of managing a data protection strategy while increasing confidence that your
systems remain compliant and your data and applications remain available.
Virtualization Technologies and their Impact on Continuous Operations Planning (COOP)
Virtual server technologies provide government agencies with the ability to do more with less, enabling the consolidation of data and applications onto a single server. The result is reduced costs, simplified IT management, and minimized space requirements. The need to protect these virtualized systems is paramount and in situations where agencies are looking to reduce the costs associated with COOP, virtualization can enable easier recovery without a great deal of additional cost. Double-Take from Double-Take Software delivers enterprise-class disaster recovery and high availability solutions for cutting-edge virtual environments. Double-Take is the industry-leading replication and availability solution that offers local and long-distance protection against most any outage, from a failed power supply to a regional disaster.
Data Protection Strategies Leveraging Replication
This paper examines four data protection strategies and compares their merits for the most common business continuance scenarios including providing high availability, providing effective disaster recovery, enhancing backup and restore, and data migration projects. Use this as a great tool to help define the best data protection strategy for your customer using replication.
The Keys to Recoverability
ESG Analyst, Lauren Whitehouse, discusses Double-Take Software’s concept of "recoverability" – which involves layers of protection that not only mitigate the risk of data loss, but also maintain the health and uptime of systems and applications. By preparing for, preventing and minimizing the impact of a catastrophic event (such as a natural disaster, hardware failure, system corruption or operational error), IT organizations gain in productivity, customer satisfaction, recovery cost savings and more. In addition, this white paper includes a complete product line overview to address your various business needs.
Core-To-Edge Protection Using Double-Take® For Windows and Yosemite Filekeeper
Businesses are becoming increasingly dependent on continuous access to stored data – regardless of whether the data resides on servers running at the core or on laptops at the edge of your business. As a result, storage usage and dependence is growing at an unprecedented rate - and so is the importance of protecting your business against service interruptions that can threaten your organization’s productivity and prosperity.
High Availability for the Masses
Data replication and recovery software can be daunting for the semi-technical person, yet the need to protect the company's critical data is undeniable. Fortunately, Double-Take ShadowCaster for Small Business Server is a whole-server, local high availability solution designed with small to medium businesses in mind. Learn more about how you can make protecting your server's data, applications and operating system a breeze.
Reducing the Risks and Costs of Branch Office Data Protection
Many businesses are unsure whether their tape backup and recovery solutions within their branch offices are providing adequate protection against data loss. This whitepaper discusses the issues and concerns with branch office data protection and the options that are available to help ensure the data and applications are adequately protected.
Disaster Recovery - The Difference Between Success and Failure
Relying on native backup for your small business server can leave gaps in your DR plan…. The key to getting back on track is a DR plan that allows for fast access to an up-to-the-minute copy of your data.
Protecting Microsoft SQL Server
MS-SQL is used to power some of your most critical information applications. Complete protection of MS-SQL requires a high-availability solution as well as a disaster recovery plan. View this white paper to understand data protection strategies using Double-Take for MS-SQL.
Disaster Recovery Virtualization
Protecting Production Systems Using VMware Virtual Infrastructure and Double-Take In today’s businesses, the need to protect critical IT system data is no longer in question and one of the biggest obstacles to choosing an effective protection solution is cost. Server virtualization and real-time data replication and failover technology are capabilities that provide a high level of data protection while keeping costs at a minimum. Read this white paper to learn how VMware Infrastructure and Double-Take Software solutions can be combined to provide affordable data protection for businesses of any size.
Thinking Beyond Tape: The Case Against Tape Backup
Many companies are already backing up their main and branch office systems to tape, but what they don't understand is just how vulnerable their data and their business remains. This whitepaper explores the high cost, complexity and potentially dangerous shortcomings of a strategy based only on tape backup.
Enhancing SQL Protection: A Case for Asynchronous Replication
Though Microsoft SQL Server has some built-in data protection features, they aren't enough to protect critical data in most organizations. ESG recommends Double-Take from Double-Take software as an affordable tool that provides a level of automated data protection and availability for Microsoft SQL Server that today's 24x7 business environment demands. Double-Take streamlines and automates the migration process, allowing replicated copies to be used to test the migration process with no risk to the production environment. This paper reviews Microsoft SQL Server native data protection and outlines how a third-party tool can lower costs, improve efficiency and supplement SQL native applications with asynchronous replication.
Double-Take in a HIPAA Regulated Health Care Industry
This documents addresses the contingency plan and physical access control requirements of the Administrative Simplification security provision of HIPAA. It will assist health care providers in recognizing how solutions from Double-Take Software can be implemented to fulfill these requirements.
Ensuring Protection and Availability for Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Exchange is integral to an organization's day-to-day operation. For many companies, an hour of Exchange downtime can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost productivity. The success of your business depends upon a disaster recovery and high availability solution for Exchange that provides immediate recoverability. This paper discusses new ways to maintain Exchange uptime by using data protection, failover, and application availability.
Enhance SQL Reporting Services with Double-Take
Microsoft SQL Reporting Services is an exciting way for organizations to gain access and insight into their important business data stored in Microsoft SQL Server. This white paper provides an overview of how Double-Take can greatly increase your production server's performance by offloading Microsoft SQL Reporting Services to a secondary server.
A Practical Guide to Developing the Right DR Plan
This white paper discusses a number of key items that should be included in a comprehensive DR program including why you need a plan, the top mistakes most companies make, and simple steps you can take now to become disaster prepared.
How Does Double-Take Ensure Data Integrity
This paper outlines how Double-Take asynchronous replication technology ensures that data integrity is maintained, particularly with intradependent fields like SQL Server and Oracle.
Six Tips Small and Midsize Businesses Can Use to Protect Their Critical Data
Whether you're a billion dollar financial services firm or a twenty-person regional service provider, you are probably increasingly dependent on your data for your day-to-day operations. This paper provides valuable tips to small and midsize businesses that are looking to implement an easy and affordable data protection solution.
Keeping Your Wireless Email Connected: Ensuring the Availability of BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Wireless e-mail might arguably be the greatest enhancement to employee productivity since the cell phone, enabling employees to keep up with e-mail when traveling. It is more important than ever to ensure that messaging systems and wireless e-mail services are protected from disasters and other outages.
Improving Business Continuity using Windows Storage Server 2003
This paper describes some technologies and approaches for achieving business continuity within the Windows environment; specifically, by combining replication software and Windows Storage Server 2003, businesses can reliably safeguard their data while realizing cost and efficiency improvements in their storage management and provisioning.
Business Continuity Doesn't Have to Break the Bank
This paper, authored by Steve Duplessie, provides a practical, comprehensive list of five affordable approaches to business continuity planning.