The company claimed that the full-server failover feature of Double-Take 5.0 eliminates the need for a standby system and reduces the burden of maintaining it. The feature does not require any pre-installation and can be used to streamline protection for any application running on a Microsoft Windows server.
According to the company, the full-server protection supports both 32- and 64-bit operating systems and is hardware independent, which allows standby system to be of a different make, model or configuration and can even be virtualized to reduce the cost and complexity of disaster recovery. It also provides automated protection and recovery for Microsoft SharePoint services, including the SQL data used by SharePoint and the SharePoint application configuration.
Bob Roudebush, director of solutions engineering at Double-Take Software said: With Double-Take 5.0 and features like Full-Server Failover, we’re repealing the ‘protection tax’ for our customers and providing them the ability to protect or migrate entire servers easily all while the production workload remains available.
The company’s rival, CommVault launched the latest version of its continuous data replicator (CDR) in August 2007, which centralizes remote office data and provides disaster recovery. It also supports host based replication across Windows, AIX and Red Hat and SuSE Linux platforms and recoverability of Oracle and Microsoft applications.
Another rival TimeSpring, a provider of data protection software has collaborated with Marathon Technologies, a provider of software for Microsoft Windows environments in march 2007, to offer protection for application, data, networks, and operating systems in the event of a disaster.
Source: ComputerWire daily updates
