Number 9 - July 2009

Presents

IT Recovery News

The Business Continuity & Virtualisation Newsletter

EDITORIAL

Cloud Computing is hot. The objective? Externalise everything to a shared infrastructure: e-mail, storage, ERP, database applications, everything can be done "in the Cloud". And that includes disaster recovery. When disaster strikes, you can now turn to Amazon's EC2 infrastructure to ensure service continuity. At least, that's the promise, a market trend which is expected to see strong growth in the near future. Dean Goodermote, CEO of Double-Take Software, confirms the trend – and Double-Take Software’s position in the Cloud – in an exclusive interview in this edition of ITRecovery News. We also take a look at the difficulty of deploying adequate data protection and continuity measures to remote sites. There's any number of solutions on the market; we explain why the optimum choice could well be a combination of real time backups and high availability.


Disaster Recovery

The Service Continuity Evolution

As replication solutions come within the reach of enterprises of all sizes, Service Continuity Planning is replacing Business Continuity – an important first step into the Cloud Computing era. Double-Take Software and Amazon show the way, with the Amazon EC2 infrastructure offering the services necessary for full real-time replication of the OS, applications and data of enterprise servers. More...

Virtualisation

Remote sites: an answer to the headaches?

There's no magic bullet ready to resolve the issues of managing remote corporate sites and offices. The challenge for the DSI is to decide on the optimum strategy for his or her organisation. And while the market offers many different solutions, simplicity and flexibility are often very low down on the list of features. More...

News

“We have the technology and the reputation to play a key role in the Cloud”

Dean Goodermote, Double-Take Software CEO, was in Paris earlier this month. He took some time out of his schedule to speak to ITRecovery News about the economic crisis, the outlook for Double-Take Software, and replication as a cloud-based service. More...

Breaking News:

Missed the Back to basics Webinar ? Double-Take Move, Flex, Availability, Livewire, TimeData, Double-Take for virtual systems (VMware and Hyper-V), Geocluster... The Double-Take Software product line has grown significantly these past few years. The "Back to Basics: Double-Take Software Products and When To Use Them" webinar with Mike Denapoli, Enterprise Systems Engineer, was the opportunity for a refresh on the core features and capabilities of the different products offered by Double-Take today. If you missed the webinar you can catch up by clicking on this link.

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