12 March,2010
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Exchange Replication

Double-Take Exchange Replication For Continuous Data Protection

When your Microsoft® Exchange infrastructure goes down, so does your productivity. Ensure uninterrupted e-mail access and availability continuous Microsoft Exchange data replication and Exchange data protection solutions from the experts at Double-Take® Software.

Think about how much your business depends on Microsoft Exchange. Then consider how much you stand to lose in lost productivity, revenues, and goodwill if your Exchange infrastructure goes down. It's no surprise that companies estimate e-mail downtime can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per hour. To protect yourself against these crippling losses, you can't settle for periodic tape backups that can take a day or more to restore your Exchange data from - and result in the loss of any data generated after the most recent tape backup. You need a continual, up-to-the-second copy of your data that you can access in the event of a disaster or unplanned outage.



Custom Tailored Solutions For Complete Exchange Protection

Before deploying any solution, our professional services team will first analyze your environment to fully understand your unique business and technical needs, enabling us to design a custom solution appropriate for your particular requirements. With a unique Capacity Planning Utility, we are able to analyze and understand your Exchange utilization trends to quantify the necessary system and network resources as well as identify the appropriate configuration settings within the products for optimal performance. All this results in a top-performing, continuous data protection solution, custom designed for you, with a rapid implementation and ROI.

How Double-Take Exchange Protection Works

How Double-Take Exchange Protection Works


Exchange Protection and Exchange Disaster Recovery

Choose the Exchange data protection solution that meets your particular business requirements.

Exchange High Availability:

Protect against site, hardware, and regional failures with onsite or remote data and server redundancy. To ensure maximum productivity, Double-Take's High Availability Solution replicates your Exchange data and services to another target server, located locally or remotely. Should the production server suffer an outage, Double-Take will immediately activate the target server, starting services and redirecting all clients away from the failed server. Failover often occurs without users even realizing there was an outage.

Exchange Disaster Recovery:

Protect Exchange data against outages, natural disasters, and other crises. Double-Take's disaster recovery solutions replicate your Exchange data to servers at remote locations, either another corporate office or a third party co-location facility. When an outage or disaster strikes, you will have immediate access to up-to-the-second data for rapid recovery of the production servers. Gone are the days of lost data and extended rebuild periods experienced with tape-based recovery.

Key Benefits and Features of Exchange Protection and Exchange Disaster Recovery

  • Flexible Bandwidth Scheduling.

    Limit network use of Double-Take during busy work hours and increase or remove these limits during non-peak times for very efficient replication with the least amount of impact on production resources.
  • Intelligent Data Compression.

    Improve performance and reduce network usage by compressing only the data that will benefit.
  • Exclusive resource planning tool.

    Simulate your replication solution and estimate the network and system resources you'll need to go live.
  • Queued task processing.

    Insert commands in the replication queue to automatically trigger remote tape backups, snapshots, or other tasks at specific times or in response to specific application events.
  • Configurable Protection.

    Flexibility to reduce tape backup server storage requirements and bandwidth utilization by selecting which storage groups to failover.
  • Seamless, Error-proof deployment.

    Exclusive pre-flight check validates setup and configuration of replication and failover monitoring. Features such as auto-discovery of standalone and clustered servers
  • simplify the process down to four steps and reduce the risk of human error.
  • Understand and minimize risks with thorough pre-production planning.

    Double-Take's thorough assessment of your network and Exchange infrastructure identifies your critical servers and data, determines implications of server failures, and reveals the strategies required to meet your continuous data protection goals.
  • Optimize bandwidth use and control costs.

    Bandwidth is expensive, but too little bandwidth can slow performance to a crawl or jeopardize your Recovery Point Objective (RPO). Double-Take's exclusive Capacity Planning technology analyzes the rate of change in your Exchange data to accurately estimate the bandwidth you need for high-performance, scalable continuous data protection.