Even the most thorough business continuity plan is no substitute for an equally thorough disaster recovery plan. No enterprise IT infrastructure is immune from the many disasters - disk crashes, power failures, human error, natural disasters - that will inevitably stop the flow of data at one or more of your facilities. When that time comes, IT will be on the hook for dusting off the disaster recovery plan and restoring the valuable data that had been created since the last back up. Will you be ready?
If your disaster recovery plan includes data replication solutions from Double Take Software, the answer will be a resounding "yes." Tape-based disaster protection can only restore data to the point of the last backup, which was most likely the prior night. Any data created since the last backup will be lost. Effective disaster recovery planning requires updating hard-copy backup strategies combined with continuous data replication.
Double Take provides continuous data replication providing an up-to-the-minute copy of the data as it is being changed. Features such as built-in bandwidth control from Double Take Software allows data to be replicated to a remote source, far from the harms way of a regional disaster like hurricanes and tornadoes. That same bandwidth control allows data to be restored equally fast.
If you are involved with disaster recovery planning in any way, data replication solutions from Double Take Software are absolutely essential to complement the more commonly found tape-based and synchronous replication solutions. See for yourself.
