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| Double-Take Software Unveils Double-Take 5.0 Double-Take Software has announced Double-Take 5.0, a platform upgrade to its replication and recovery products. Double-Take 5.0 is the only disaster recovery product to combine continuous data replication and full server protection: a combination that eliminates the need to install and maintain applications, patches and configurations on the standby server for disaster recovery. Furthermore, the new Full-Server Failover feature allows customers to use Double-Take for quick and painless migrations between different types of server hardware or virtual machines. One of the product's new features, Full-Server Failover, drastically reduces the complexity of setting up a standby system for failover and reduces the burden on IT administrators to continually maintain that system as changes and updates are made to the production server. The feature can be used to streamline protection for any application running on a Microsoft Windows server and does not require pre-installation or configuration of any application software on the standby server. In addition, the Full-Server Failover feature can be used to protect critical servers in local (LAN) and remote (WAN) environments, and supports both 32 and 64-bit operating systems. More importantly, this full-server protection is hardware independent - the standby system does not need to be the same make, model or configuration and can even be virtualized to reduce the cost and complexity of disaster recovery. Double-Take 5.0's full-server protection and recovery technology provides customers with a flexible approach to server migrations. The new Full-Server Failover technology also allows customers to move entire workloads, including operating systems, applications and data, from one server to another in both the physical and virtual realms. Using Double-Take, IT administrators can perform real-time migrations to dissimilar hardware while servers are running with minimal impact to end-user productivity. Once migrations are complete, customers can continue to use Double-Take to protect and recover their migrated workloads moving forward. Double-Take 5.0 also provides automated protection and recovery for Microsoft SharePoint Services. Both the SQL data used by SharePoint and the SharePoint application configuration are continuously replicated to a standby server and can automatically failover within a few minutes of a system outage. With these enhancements, Double-Take 5.0 is the easiest way to protect and recover organizations' business-critical SharePoint Services data. In summary, key new features include: - Full-Server protection and failover; - Automated Microsoft SharePoint Services protection; - Flexible and easy migration between physical and virtual machines and between dissimilar hardware; - Enhancements to Microsoft Exchange 2007 Cluster protection; - Enterprise Install Console for centralized and automated deployment/upgrade of Double-Take; - Advanced Scripting; - Enhanced restore capabilities. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |