Double-Take® Software Announces Double-Take Application Manager
Taking Application Data Protection to the Next Level

Southborough, Mass. – February 27, 2006 – Double-Take Software today announced the availability of Double-Take Application Manager. Leveraging existing support for protecting Exchange Server, SQL Server and other applications in Double-Take, Double-Take Application Manager builds on proven experience with protecting applications and their data on the Windows platform. Initially, supporting Exchange Server, Double-Take Application Manager integrates the management of application protection into a single framework allowing for increased automation and ease of setup, resulting in improved protection, reduced recovery times, and a higher level of application availability.

Double-Take Application Manager for Exchange is designed to automate the setup and configuration of replication and failover monitoring of Exchange Server. The new solution offers exclusive features such as a protection “Pre-Flight Check” which ensures that the Exchange environment is configured properly for replication and failover. In addition, the new “Configuration Cloning” feature helps to reduce administration effort and minimize configuration errors by automatically configuring the Exchange stores and configuration settings on the secondary server.

“As the Exchange market continues to grow and dominate, companies are finding they need a better way to configure and manage that environment,” said Heidi Biggar, analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Double-Take Software is a leader in this market and is taking the next steps by integrating new features into Double-Take, such as auto-discovery and the ability to monitor multiple IP addresses from a single console, thereby improving recovery times and higher levels of Exchange availability.”

Behind every great sports team, there is a great support system. For the Celtics, this support system is a dedicated group of front office employees who reside in multiple locations and must work with a worldwide customer base and a wealth of statistics. The Celtics use a sophisticated database which includes several types of statistics to help evaluate their own performance as well as the competition’s performance. The organization relies on the speed and flexibility of e-mail for collaborating on this important data.

“Considering our role in the NBA, our large fan base, our namesake - we realized it was time to step it up and protect our assets better,” said Jay Wessel, senior director of technology for the Boston Celtics. “Our organization has been growing from a SMB to a large scale corporation in terms of size, capabilities, complexity, and revenues – it was time for our contingency planning to grow as well. No matter what the circumstances, we wanted to work in real-time recovery mode, so our applications and office staff could be back up and running with core functions almost immediately.”

Among several new features, the Double-Take Application Manager for Exchange also provides an improved centralized management console and automated recovery functionality. Automated recovery capabilities ensure that users experience minimal downtime during recovery and that restoring services to the primary Exchange server can be done in the simplest way possible.

“This offering is the result of our continued innovation in the application availability and data protection areas,” said Bob Roudebush, director, solutions engineering, Double-Take Software, Inc. “What is unique about our approach is that we have moved beyond just automating the replication of data and the configuration of failover and monitoring. We have built a solution that gives administrators a specialized tool for configuration and monitoring of application protection with built-in knowledge of Exchange and Double-Take best practices.”

Additional new Double-Take Application Manager for Exchange features include:

• Integrated Controls – Integrates standard Double-Take controls into the management console to reduce the need to use other management interfaces to configure the Exchange protection environment.

• Configuration Change Persistence - The automated persistence of configuration settings saves time and effort and simplifies Exchange protection management.

Double-Take Application Manager for Exchange is now generally available at no additional charge for all Double-Take customers covered by product maintenance.