Business Continuity
22 November,2008
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Whitepapers - General (Available for Download after registration)
Enhancing SQL Protection: A Case for Asynchronous Replication
Enhance SQL Reporting Services with Double-Take
Microsoft SQL Reporting Services is an exciting way for organizations to gain access and insight into their important business data stored in Microsoft SQL Server. This white paper provides an overview of how Double-Take can greatly increase your production server's performance by offloading Microsoft SQL Reporting Services to a secondary server.
Ensuring Protection and Availability for Microsoft Exchange
Email is an essential service for most businesses today and Exchange is one of the most widely deployed messaging platforms. This paper discusses new ways to improve Exchange recoverability and availability by using replication technologies for continuous data protection.
A Practical Guide to Developing the Right DR Plan
This white paper discusses a number of key items that should be included in a comprehensive DR program including why you need a plan, the top mistakes most companies make, and simple steps you can take now to become disaster prepared.
Ensuring High Availability with Microsoft Exchange Server
Email is an essential service for most businesses today and, for many good reasons, Microsoft Exchange is one of the most widely deployed messaging platforms. In this eBook, you'll learn new ways to improve Exchange recoverability and availability tips and tricks.
How Does Double-Take Ensure Data Integrity
This paper outlines how Double-Take asynchronous replication technology ensures that data integrity is maintained, particularly with intradependent fields like SQL Server and Oracle.
Rapid Remote Disaster Recovery, with Rapid ROI
To protect themselves against the worst sorts of disasters, most companies use tape backup for complete data protection. This paper demonstrates how an alternative solution using continuous data protection provides far better remote disaster protection for a fraction of the cost of tape and introduces new data acceleration technology, Internap's FCX solution, that can optimize Double-Take's performance over your WAN.
Data Replication: A Key Element in BCP
This article explores the key aspects to business continuity planning through the use of replication technology specifically for the legal industry but can be applied to all industries. This article was first published in ILTA's April white paper and is posted here with permission. For more information about ILTA, visit their website at www.iltanet.org.
Protecting RIM Blackberry
More and more companies are reaping the benefits of wireless email, allowing employees to remain connected even when not at their computers. This new freedom brings with it the need for protecting this now-critical application to ensure it's availability in the event of any type of failure or outage. This whitepaper discusses the need and options for maintaining your RIM Blackberry environment during a failure, regardless of the severity.
Protecting Data at Remote Branch Offices
Many businesses are unsure whether their tape backup and recovery solutions within their branch offices are providing adequate protection against data loss. This whitepaper discusses the issues and concerns with branch office data protection and other options that are available to help ensure all company data is adequately protected.
How to Reduce Costs and the Risks of Branch Office Data Protection
This paper discusses the newest data protection strategies for branch or remote offices including how to protect customer databases, e-mail servers, or financial information that are critical to the company's day-to-day operation.
Messaging Protection Comes of Age
To say that email is a critical application is an obvious understatement. Few applications are more integral to an organization's day-to-day operation. This paper details the high cost of failure, weighting the costs of protection vs. vulnerability, and suggestions for mixing and matching messaging protection.
Protecting Microsoft SQL Server
MS-SQL is used to power some of your most critical information applications. Complete protection of MS-SQL requires a high-availability solution as well as a disaster recovery plan. View this white paper to understand data protection strategies using Double-Take for MS-SQL.
Migrating from NT4 to Windows 2003
As of mid-2003, it is estimated that over 2 Million servers still run Windows NT 4.0, even though Microsoft® has officially announced an end to support of that platform by June 2004. The purpose of this document is to highlight the primary considerations for migrating "across the wire" from an NT4 platform to Windows 2003.
ASPO - Advanced Server Protection Options
It is very common for customers to ask us to help them solve a problem, where the solution ends up being Double-Take plus a little integration with a third party tool. This Technical Whitepaper will describe a few solutions and how Double-Take can take advantage of some third-party utilities.
Better Backups through Replication
While many customers start our meetings with questions on High Availability and Disaster Recovery, it is often Centralized or Enhanced Backup that we end up deploying on first. This Technical Whitepaper will describe how Double-Take provides a "better copy of the data to back up", while still leveraging one's existing tape software and hardware choices.
Data Protection via Replication
Data is constantly growing and IT Managers have the inherent problem and in this day and age, obligation to protect it. Protecting distributed data is no easy task. This special report, authored by Steve Kenniston of the ESG, takes a look at the challenges enterprises are facing in protecting data at remote locations and branch offices and identifies ways in which to meet these challenges head on.
Six Tips Small and Midsize Businesses Can Use to Protect Their Critical Data
Whether you're a billion dollar financial services firm or a twenty-person regional service provider, you are probably increasingly dependent on your data for your day-to-day operations. This paper provides valuable tips to small and midsize businesses that are looking to implement an easy and affordable data protection solution.
Enterprise Solutions from Microsoft and Double-Take
Discover how to create better business environment and solutions through solutions from Double-Take Software running on Windows Server 2003.
Building Better Protected Storage using Windows Storage Server 2003
This whitepaper, which was co-authored by Microsoft and Double-Take Software, elaborates on how data replication solutions can be integrated into Windows Storage Server 2003 for the ultimate data protection scenario.
Improving Business Continuity using Windows Storage Server 2003
This paper describes some technologies and approaches for achieving business continuity within the Windows environment; specifically, by combining replication software and Windows Storage Server 2003, businesses can reliably safeguard their data while realizing cost and efficiency improvements in their storage management and provisioning.
Business Continuity Doesn't Have to Break the Bank
This paper, authored by Steve Duplessie, provides a practical, comprehensive list of five affordable approaches to business continuity planning.
Making Your Business Disaster Ready with Virtual Infrastructure
  
Whitepapers - Technical (Available for Download after registration)
Double-Take Software Solutions with Microsoft VSS
With the introduction of Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Storage Server 2003 and the strength of Double-Take Software you now have the products to achieve your goal of reducing downtime, protecting your critical assets, and reduce time spent on restoring and rebuilding files and servers.
Double-Take Software and Microsoft Virtual PC, Virtual Server VMware GSX Server and ESX Server
Protecting virtual servers, and their virtual disks, provide some unique challenges that are only surmountable by Double-Take, due to its architecture and feature-set. This document will describe how these types of virtual O/S products can be leveraged with Double-Take.
Data Protection Solutions for ProLiant Clusters Utilizing Double-Take
This paper discusses several implementation scenarios for Double-Take within ProLiant Clusters.
Data Protection with IBM TotalStorage NAS and Double-Take Data Replication Software
This paper introduces and explains how the IBM TotalStorage Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances in conjunction with the replication engine Double-Take can provide a complete solution for enterprise storage networks.
Meeting the New Requirements for Enterprise Data Protection
This document illustrates how Double-Take can bridge the gap between the capabilities of traditional backup systems and the demands of today's LAN and client-server applications. It discusses how Double-Take can be applied to resolve many of the limitations of traditional backup technology, and how its design allows it to integrate well into existing networks.
Replication for the Masses: Technology Overview
This document serves as a basic primer on replication for secure, reliable backups as the next killer application to make sure business-critical data is always available.
Strategic Research Profile: Integrating Availability and Disaster Tolerance
Comprehensive overview of high availability solutions and scenarios.
  
Whitepapers - Vertical Industry (Available for Download after registration)
Double-Take in a HIPAA Regulated Health Care Industry
This documents addresses the contingency plan and physical access control requirements of the Administrative Simplification security provision of HIPAA. It will assist health care providers in recognizing how solutions from Double-Take Software can be implemented to fulfill these requirements.