Double Take Business Continuity

Double take business continuity is an application that provides real-time data protection to reduce data loss and downtime, and enhances the performance of your existing backup apps. Double-Take monitors file changes as they occur on one (or many) of your source servers, replicating them in real-time to a target server over your existing network links.

Double take business continuity – advantages over traditional tape

In many organizations, the loss of even an hour's data may cost tens of thousands of dollars. Downtime is similarly expensive resulting in lost productivity and lost business.

With traditional backup alone, you run the risk of losing up to a full day's data in the event of a system failure. Even the best tape backup systems require hours to restore a large server, and downtime can extend to days if the restore does not go smoothly. For many businesses, this amount of lost data and downtime is no longer acceptable.

At the other extreme, there are specialized, distributed applications that can continue to run even in the event of a Server failure. Unfortunately, these systems tend to be limited to a single application and are often expensive and complex.

Double take business continuity – file changes

Double-Take monitors file changes as they occur on one or many source servers, replicating them in real-time to a server over existing network links. In the event of a server failure, Double-Take's target server has backup copies of all your critical files immediately available for your users.

The target server can even assume the identity of the failed server virtually eliminating data loss and downtime!

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