ID#: 22569
Solution name:
Double-Take
Solution description:
Double-Take combines continuous replication and failover to enable HA, DR and centralized backup of data and applications. Double-Take captures changes at the byte-level as they occur and asynchronously replicates selected files or entire storage devices from source servers to target servers over any network.
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Double-Take is the most relied upon solution for continuous data protection and application availability. Based on patented technology, it enables companies to easily recover from unexpected disruptions and immediately restore business-critical data and applications.
Double-Take protects data and applications such as Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server™, and Oracle®, enabling our customers to replicate and protect mission-critical data that resides throughout their enterprise. It delivers better protection than many hardware-based solutions, and it costs tens of thousands less.
Real-Time Data Protection:
Replicates continuously at the byte level over any shared or private IP-based LAN, WAN or SAN, ensuring that changed data is protected and can be quickly restored at all times.
Application Agnostic:
Works with your existing hardware to protect applications such as Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and Sharepoint.
Continuous Data Protection:
Guarantees business continuity and high availability by restoring access to data in minutes with failover capabilities to maintain a seamless working environment.
Easily Installed and Maintained:
Allows companies of any size looking for data protection solutions to install and maintain Double-Take.
Cost Effective:
Provides the best possible protection at the lowest cost with an accelerated return on investment - paying for itself within months.
Functional description
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Asynchronous, byte-level replication: Monitors changes to files/replicates changed bytes.
Distance replication: Replicate to a DR site at any distance, over standard networks.
Certified for all Windows Server 2003/Windows 2000 editions.
Bandwidth limiting: Cap the bandwidth used to minimize network performance impact.
HA/failover: Server failover to a 2nd server in event of failure.
Queued task processing: Insert commands in the rep. queue to trigger remote backups/snapshots at specific times.
Many-to-one failover.
Unlimited disk queuing: Queue data to disk during heavy network usage, transmit to a server when network permits.
Competitive advantage
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Double-Take is the industry standard in continuous data protection/application availability. We've been designing data protection software longer than anyone else, so our customers & partners reap the benefits of our 10 years of experience.
Over 50% of the Fortune 500 trust Double-Take.
Our patented technology serves an array of industries; our customers come from banking, finance, legal, govt, education & healthcare. On Wall Street & inside The Beltway, we’re a standard.
We've been in business for 15+ years, focusing solely on innovating data protection; we've had time to perfect our solutions.
NSI is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and boasts the highest levels of certification on all Microsoft platforms; our software protects Exchange & SQL better than the rest.
Our patented technology has become the standard—50K licenses deployed!
Business problem
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Double-Take provides continuous data protection and application availability. Through replication and failover, Double-Take ensures that data and applications are always available. In today’s information-intensive world, Double-Take ensures that employees are always productive, that federal and industry data protection mandates are addressed. and that they can take orders and communicate with customers at all times.
Business opportunity
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Double-Take is the solution of choice for customers from SMEs to the F500. Dictated by best practices, compliance stds SOX, HIPAA, SEC), politics & weather patterns, leading financial/legal/govt/healthcare organizations are prioritizing data protection at the top of the must-have list, and finding that Double-Take is the best solution to address data protection needs.
Double-Take provides a more affordable data protection alternative for applications like Exchange and SQL that don’t usually require costly, synchronous mirroring solutions. Double-Take can help companies recover more quickly from an outage than tape. It can solve the following IT challenges:
- High Availability: Double-Take ensures that server outages don't affect employee productivity and an organization’s bottom line. Double-Take loaded on a production server replicates to another server in the same location so that if the primary server fails, business can continue as usual.
- Disaster Recovery: Double-Take loaded onto a production server replicates to a server at another location to ensure that the organization’s data is protected and available at another location if the primary site is jeopardized.
- Centralized BackUp: Double-Take helps centralize backups by replicating data at remote branch offices back to a central site. This helps reduce costs by eliminating need for backup hardware at the branch, and lets IT managers rest easy knowing they’re not relying on unskilled resources to swap tapes daily.
Return on investment
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We find that Double-Take pays for itself within one year of purchase. The lost productivity and revenue associated with one outage alone would pay for Double-Take.
Assume the following: 25 users – perhaps 50% using a core application like File, e-mail and a database. Server goes down:
- Assuming $36/hr x 12p
- Morning’s data lost: $1728
- Rest of day unproductive: $1728
- Parts ordered – expedited to next day: $HW + Ship
- Another lost day of productivity: $3456
- Reseller paid to help with assistance ($$$)$600
- Total = $7512 plus HW - two (2)copies of Double-Take plus small server costs less than this
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Target industries
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Banking
Education
Financial Markets
Government, Central/Federal
Government, State/Provincial/Local
Healthcare
Insurance
Professional Services
Legal Services
Solution areas
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Cross industry
Business Continuity
Professional Services
System and data management
Business Resilience
Data Handling
Data Protection and Recovery
Other
Countries/regions in which this solution is distributed
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Africa
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Bouvet Island, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Congo, The Democratic Republic of the, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, São Tome and Principe, Tanzania, United Republic of, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Americas
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), French Guiana, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S.
Asia Pacific
American Samoa, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Hong Kong S.A.R. of China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Korea, Republic of, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Macao S.A.R. of China, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Federated States of, Mongolia, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Viet Nam
Europe
Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Holy See (Vatican City State), Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, The former Yugoslav Republic of, Malta, Moldova, Republic of, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan
Middle East
Afghanistan, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Other
Antarctica, French Southern Territories, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Maldives, Nauru, Niue, Pitcairn, Saint Helena, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna
Customer size
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Very Small Business (Less than 50 employees)
Small Business (50 to 99 employees)
Midmarket Business (100 to 499 employees)
Midmarket Business (500 to 1000 employees)
Large Business (greater than 1000 employees)
Ready for the euro? Not applicable
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Software and related services
Windows
IBM BladeCenter HSxx (Intel processor-based)
IBM BladeCenter LSxx (AMD processor-based)
IBM System x (xSeries)
Windows 2000 Server (inclusive)
IBM System x (xSeries)
Windows Server 2003 (inclusive)
IBM System x (xSeries)
Windows Server 2003 on iSeries Integ. xSeries Card
IBM System i (iSeries)
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IBM CommonStore for Exchange Server
IBM CommonStore for Lotus Domino
IBM DB2 Content Manager
IBM DB2 Information Integrator for Content
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IBM Lotus Virtual Classroom
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IBM Lotus Workflow
IBM Lotus Workplace Documents
IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging
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IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management
IBM Workplace Collaboration Services
IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting
IBM Workplace Services Express
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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager
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IBM System Storage DS300/DS400
IBM System Storage DS4000 family (formerly FAStT)
IBM System Storage DS6000 family
IBM System Storage DS8000 family
IBM System Storage Enterprise Storage Server (ESS)
IBM System Storage Enterprise Storage Server Model 750
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Network Attached Storage
IBM System Storage SAN File System
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IBM System Storage SAN Switch F08 (3534-F08)
IBM System Storage SAN Switch F32 (2109-F16/F32/M12)
IBM System Storage Tape Storage Systems
IBM System Storage LTO Tape
IBM System Storage Enterprise Tape 3592 Subsystem
IBM System Storage Enterprise Tape Library 3590/3494
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IBM System Storage UltraScalable Tape Library 3584
IBM System Storage Ultrium Scalable Tape Library 3583
IBM System Storage Ultrium Tape Autoloader 3581
IBM System Storage Ultrium Tape Drive 3580
IBM System Storage Ultrium Tape Library 3582