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Double-Take(R) Software Drives Disaster Recovery Solutions Built on VMware Virtual Infrastructure; Double-Take Software Solves Disaster Recovery Challenges

Posted on: Wednesday, 12 April 2006, 09:00 CDT

Double-Take(R) Software today showed the continued success of its Double-Take for Virtual Systems(TM) product by announcing a complementary solution for joint Double-Take Software and VMware customers.

By using the two products simultaneously, customers achieve real-time data protection for virtual machines at an affordable cost. VMware products allow customers to build a flexible server infrastructure optimized for disaster recovery with the freedom to mix physical and consolidated virtual systems at primary and recovery sites. Double-Take Software solves disaster recovery challenges in this VMware environment by replicating business critical data offsite and providing failover capabilities.

"Simplified and efficient business continuity has become a mainstream strategy for VMware virtual infrastructure customers," said Karthik Rau, Senior Director of Infrastructure Products & Solutions at VMware. "Double-Take Software provides customers the ability to implement a business continuity solution by adding real-time data protection and application availability to their VMware virtual infrastructure environments."

There is good reason for many IT departments and storage administrators to consider the benefits of using Double-Take with VMware ESX Server. In addition to continuous data protection, the complementary products allow for large volume creation, protection, and sharing to be done through a single interface for all supported operating systems.

"We were able to consolidate our disaster recovery environment from physical servers to substantially fewer virtual servers, which helped us better manage our data according to regulatory compliance," said Mike Pelham, IT Analyst at MWABank. "We have saved a significant amount of time and money by leveraging virtualization in our environment. Double-Take for Virtual Systems with its powerful replication capabilities, ease of management and virtual machine specific licensing, was the clear choice."

Announced in February 2006, Double-Take for Virtual Systems enables the use of real-time data protection, monitoring and failover within virtual machines for the protection of business-critical data and applications. It also introduces a licensing strategy that makes acquiring a data protection solution more cost-effective. By purchasing one license of Double-Take for Virtual Systems, customers can deploy up to five instances of Double-Take on the same VMware ESX Server.

"We know our data is safe and secure with Double-Take for Virtual Systems," said Sean Anderson, manager at Comarco, Inc. "The granularity of features allows us to tailor the system to our needs and ensure that all of our information is protected in the event of a server failure or natural disaster."

VMware Technology Alliance Program

Double-Take Software recently joined the VMware Technology Alliance Program - a program designed to foster collaboration between VMware and industry-leading software companies to jointly develop solution stacks that provide value and cost savings to customers. This level of participation with VMware will help Double-Take Software to continue with its innovation in providing data replication and application availability offerings for VMware customers.

About Double-Take(R) Software

NSI Software, Inc. (NSI(R)), doing business as Double-Take(R) Software, provides the world's most relied upon solution for accessible data protection for Microsoft(R) Windows(R) applications. The Double-Take product is the standard in data replication, enabling customers to protect business-critical data that resides throughout their enterprise. With its partner programs and professional services, Double-Take delivers unparalleled data protection, centralized back-up, high availability, and recoverability. It's the solution of choice for thousands of customers, from SMEs to the Fortune 500 in the banking, finance, legal services, retail, manufacturing, government, education and healthcare markets. Double-Take is an integral part of their disaster recovery, business continuity and overall storage strategies. Double-Take Software is privately held and headquartered in Southborough, MA. For more information, please visit www.doubletake.com.

Double-Take(R), GeoCluster(R) and NSI(R) are registered trademarks of NSI Software, Inc. Balance(TM), Double-Take for Virtual Systems(TM), and Double-Take for Virtual Servers(TM) are trademarks of NSI Software, Inc. Microsoft, Windows, and the Windows logo are trademarks, or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are properties of their respective companies. are trademarks of NSI Software, Inc. Microsoft, Windows, and the Windows logo are trademarks, or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are properties of their respective companies.

Source: Business Wire

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