Business Continuity

Disaster Recovery

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, and 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 data replication solutions from Double-Take Software, the answer will be a resounding "yes." Tape-based disaster protection 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. Effective disaster recovery planning requires a complete data protection plan including tape backup and continuous data replication.

Double Take provides continuous data replication 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 allow 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.

If you are involved with disaster recovery planning in any way, data replication solutions from Double-Take Software are absolutely essential to complement the more commonly found tape-based backup solutions.

High Availability

In today's business climate, the high availability of applications including email is crucial. The advent of mobile messaging solutions means that not only can employees access email wherever they go, the expectations of email are that it is constantly available. How can you protect yourself against downtime and ensure complete data protection with 24/7 high availability?

Traditional solutions, such as tape backup and hardware mirroring, are not without flaws. Tape backup poses a potential risk in that data backups must be performed when the system is idle - meaning that as much as a day's worth of data could be lost. Tape recovery time can also be below many business's recovery time objectives. Hardware mirroring ensures that not a single second's worth of data will be lost, but the price of all the hardware replication can be more than many IT budgets can afford.

A more cost-effective answer is asynchronous host-based replication for high availability. Support for non-proprietary hardware and storage systems mean you can leverage your existing resources. You'll also get real-time data protection without distance limitations ensuring high availability for all your business-critical applications - including email.

Real-time data replication at the byte level, regardless of application, is a much more efficient use of computing and bandwidth resources for. With Double-Take Software solutions all of your applications can have cost-effective, real-time data protection that ensures high availability.


Centralised Backup

There was a time when tape-based backup was widely believed to be the only feasible backup solution for remote offices. But tape backup alone is no longer the only realistic solution and centralised backup solutions are coming to the forefront.

As a result of this shift, enterprises have re-evaluated tape-only backup solutions and don't like what they have found. According to a report by ESG, nearly one-quarter (24%) of companies say that twenty percent (20%) or more of their tape-based backups fail. As such, depending on tape backup alone creates an unacceptable level of risk.

Fortunately, advances in technology have made centralised backup easier to manage and less of a drain on the WAN. Centralised backup solutions like those from Double-Take Software use real-time data replication to reduce the risk involved with tape-only backup and data recovery. A centralised backup solution takes the tape-only backup responsibilities out of the hands of non-technical resources in each remote office, and puts them in the hands of experts back at a central datacenter.

Centralised backup solutions from Double-Take Software replicate data from each remote office to one central location. A centralised backup solution from Double-Take Software, used with tape backup strategies, can reduce the per-location costs associated with tape-only solutions. Immediate savings with a centralised backup plan include recovery software licenses for each location, a tape library at each location, and off-site vaulting.