Double-Take Software
Double-Take Software publishes a family of products designed to provide small companies a variety of affordable solutions for backing up and recovering business-critical applications such as Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Blackberry, and SharePoint. Double-Take products work with leading virtual environments including Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware and also support Windows Server clusters to maximize network availability and minimize recovery time in case of a catastrophic failure. Double-Take replication products have earned Microsoft certification for Windows 2000, 2003, and 2008 at every level from Standard through Datacenter editions. Progent’s disaster recovery planning consultants have extensive experience integrating Double-Take technology into small business information networks to achieve a high level of fault tolerance and disaster recovery capability at a budget-friendly price.
Double-Take Backup Software for Continuous Server Backup and On-demand Restoration
Double-Take Backup features continuous, real-time replication to disk, allowing network users to stay online during replication and restoration and eliminating the network downtime associated with scheduled backups. By copying all data changes as soon as they happen, Double-Take Backup prevents data loss that can occur with traditional solutions that rely on scheduled backups or periodic snapshots. Because Double-Take Backup utilizes fast, fault-tolerant disks rather than slow, unreliable tape for storage, replication is transparent to users, restoration is dependable, and recovery time is short.
Double-Take Backup also lets you perform on-demand recoveries to server hardware that is different from the original server, or between virtual and physical servers, giving you flexibility in designing and repurposing your network hardware. To help meet the requirements of your business continuity plan, Double-Take Backup allows you to back up to any remote disaster recovery site. This
capability also saves the cost and administrative hassle of backing up branch offices in the field.
Double-Take Availability Software for Real-time Replication to a Remote Disaster Recovery Site
Double-Take Availability allows you to configure failover clusters without shared storage or geographic restrictions. This improves the fault-tolerance of your backup/restore solution by reducing the vulnerability of Windows-based clustering to single-point failure and also gives you the convenience of situating your cluster nodes anywhere.
Double-Take Availability offers a wide variety of data compression options that provide a high level of flexibility in deciding how to allocate your network resources for optimal performance. Double-Take Availability also improves system performance by implementing byte-level asynchronous replication. This reduces the workload on your servers and communications network and ensures that the continuous replication process does not bog down your business applications.
Restoration with Double-Take Availability minimizes the disruption of your operations and maximizes the protection of your data. You are not required to take business applications offline while restoring data. Any changes that users make between the initiation of a restore and the start of failback are replicated to the source.
How Progent Can Help You Benefit from Double-Take Software
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can help you select, install, and maintain a Double-Take Software solution that meets your business needs and stays within your IT budget. Progent's Business Continuity Planning consultants can show you how Double-Take Software can be incorporated in a sensible disaster recovery strategy. Progent can train your IT staff how to manage Double-Take or you can outsource your backup and recovery process to Progent's system administration specialists. Progent's engineers can provide Windows Server 2008 failover clustering help, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V expertise, and VMware Support Services to assist you in integrating Double-Take Software with robust IT environments that are affordable and easy to manage. Progent's CISM, GIAC, CISA and CISSP-certified security engineers can evaluate the security vulnerabilities of your replication and restore solution and can provide recommendations for enhancing all aspects of your network protection.
Other High Availability Solutions Provided by Progent's Experts
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consulting experts can assist your company build an affordable, fault-tolerant IT architecture that addresses critical challenges covering a broad array of networking solutions and operations such as:
Non-stop Internet Access
Progent's Cisco-certified IT consultants can show you how to design an economical, 24x7 Internet connection architecture that can achieve 24x7 Internet connectivity via a broad array of fault tolerant Internet network solutions including high availability BGP, transparent fail-over, and redundant ISPs. Progent can provide Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert consultants to show you how to apply the latest techniques for fault tolerant Internet connectivity to implement an economical, fully redundant Internet network with automatic failover and other capabilities to create non-stop Internet connections. For more information, visit Non-stop Internet Connectivity Architecture.
Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering
The server cluster feature set built into the high-end versions of Windows Server 2008 has been radically redesigned to simplify the installation, configuration, and management of clusters that provide improved levels of system availability, protection, performance, and versatility. New or improved capabilities include cluster validation, revamped setup and deployment, unified cluster management, redesigned cluster architecture for maximum availability, better protection and quorum structure, minimization of failure points, more storage and RAM capacity, and improvements for multi-site clusters. For details, visit Windows Failover Clustering Help.
Microsoft 2003 Cluster Server
Progent provides Microsoft Windows Cluster Server consulting to help your organization utilize non-stop clustered servers designed to provide 100% operation. Windows cluster servers for high-availability systems include Microsoft Windows Cluster Server, Microsoft SQL Cluster, and Exchange Cluster. By showing you how to build non-stop server clustering environments powered by Microsoft Windows Server Cluster 2003, Progent’s certified Windows professionals ensure that your high availability server clusters are set up to optimize the competitive value of your information network. For more information, visit Windows Server Cluster Expertise.
Non-stop Load Balancing
Progent offers fault tolerant load balancing consulting covering network load balancing, load balanced programs, LAN/WAN infrastructure routing, and content dispatching products including Cisco Content Engine. High availability load balancing products for which Progent offers consulting services include Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Presentation Server, Cisco CSS, Cisco Content Engine and ACNS, and F5 Networks BIG-IP. For details, see Fault Tolerant Load Balancing.
Fault Tolerant Data Centers
Progent's Data Center professionals can show you how to select fault-tolerant data centers that meet the specific requirements of your company. Fault tolerant co-location sites are particularly appealing to small businesses due to of their low cost and convenience compared to taking a do-it-yourself approach. Trying to design an on-site data center that offers even a basic level of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for the majority of small companies. Progent is ready to show you how to reap all the advantages of high-availability colo sites by providing a full range of consulting and maintenance services. For more information, see Non-stop Colocation Expertise.
24x7 Inter-office Connectivity
Progent’s branch office network infrastructure engineers can help small businesses create non-stop interoffice connectivity solutions via redundant system architectures with automatic failover. Progent’s Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers can design and deploy high-availability Inter-office networks based on fault tolerant EIGRP network routers or non-stop OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can demonstrate how multi-path connectivity and automatic fail-over offers affordable non-stop interoffice networking. For more information, go to Non-stop Inter-office Networking.
System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) Backup and Restore Consulting and Support Services
Progent's certified Data Protection Manager engineers can assist your company to create a practical disaster recovery plan, design a cost-effective non-stop IT architecture, deploy a DPM-powered backup and recovery solution, thoroughly test your DPM system, educate your administrative staff or local consultants how to manage DPM, or handle complete information technology outsourcing such as off-site hosting of DPM machines in Progent's secure data center. To learn more, visit Microsoft DPM Consulting.
Why Pick Progent for Disaster Recovery Planning and Fault-tolerant Networking Consulting?
Because Progent is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and offers professional application support for a wide variety of small business software programs, Progent is able to help clients to arrive at efficient information technology solutions that optimize the productivity of your information system. As a Registered Partner for Cisco Systems, Progent offers the expertise of certified consultants and specialists with expertise in architecting, installing and troubleshooting infrastructure solutions built on Cisco technology. The extent of Progent's IT experience and Progent's sensitivity to the needs of small and midsize companies make Progent a great resource for building and running an affordable, fault-tolerant network.
How You Can Access Progent's Consultants for Business Continuity Planning Support
If you wish to ask Progent about professional assistance for business continuity planning, phone 1-800-993-9400 or e-mail fault-tolerant-help@progent.com.
