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Press Releases
Vision Solutions Launches Update to Double-Take® for Linux Product Suite
VS0009 - DT Linux APP.pdf 95.71 kB
Vision Solutions launches new resilience capabilities for virtualised environments and Microsoft Exchange 2010
DT 5-3 _FINAL_.pdf 94.74 kB
Vision Solutions wins Golden Software Award for Double-Take Availability
GoldenSoftwareAward2011.pdf 66.95 kB
Case Studies
Double-Take Protects AXA’s Data
The multinational AXA Group, a name that carries weight in the insurance sector, uses the Double-Take solution to protect its critical data. Protecting the company’s main 2 TB file server is a piece of cake for Double-Take, which enables AXA employees to quickly and efficiently access data from three main offices in two countries, and at the same time protects data at a geographical level from loss, damage and unavailability.
“Double-Take enabled us to ensure a high level of work continuity for our employees, and accelerated the rate at which AXA Insurance provides services to its customers” František Vymazal, Chief Technology Officer at AXA.
CS_AXA_E_101006.pdf 153.68 kB
Double-Take protects Scan Alarms & Security Systems
To provide its customers with the highest level of service, one of Scan Alarms’ business
goals was to move away from inefficient paper-based systems and, as far as possible,
operate electronically. This goal is of particular value to service engineers, who traditionally
held paperwork for each customer, only visiting head office on a weekly or fortnightly basis
to return paperwork for processing. Engineers now carry HP iPAQ wireless PDAs and can
undertake all administrative duties remotely, ensuring maximum productivity and speedy
response to customer issues.
“Double-Take Availability gives us complete confidence that if our primary server were to
ever fail again, all of the business’s essential data will remain available, our staff will have
uninterrupted access to customer records, calls will be logged and information passed
to service engineers. Ultimately, we now have the tools to ensure that the Scan Alarm’s
commitments to its customers can always be met.” David Allen, Managing Director, Scan Alarms
CS_DTA_ScanAlarms.pdf 263.31 kB
Double-Take protects Baker & McKenzie
Every effort to minimize downtime had to be taken because the firm could not afford to
jeopardize client cases or it’s own reputation by missing deadlines. An efficient and reliable
Disaster Recovery Solution was needed to replace tape backup: Double-Take Availability.
“We now have peace of mind that we can recover from even the most drastic disaster
scenario in a relatively short time with minimal impact to our attorney’s and their clients.
Double-Take Availability protects the work we do and protects our clients, no matter
what else is going on in the world around us.” Dan Surowiec, Manager of Global Technology Operations, Baker & McKenzie
CS_DT_BakerMcKenzie.pdf 277.00 kB
Double-Take protects Raymond James Ltd.
Regardless of the industry, best practices require all organizations to have a business
continuity plan (BCP) that allows operations to resume quickly after a disaster or other incident
shuts down important business systems or destroys data. For financial services firms, having
a rigorous BCP is more than just a good business practice, it’s often required by industry
policies or government regulations. As a result, Raymond James Ltd. needed a BCP to
ensure that its critical applications and data could be recovered within 48 hours.
“This is the best product I’ve found for virtualized environments, hands down. There
are a number of great licensing options, making it a low-cost solution. I haven’t seen
any other solution that is as easy to use as Double-Take Availability. It allows me to do
everything I’m doing today.” Eric Wright, Systems Architect, Raymond James Ltd.
CS_DTA_RaymondJames_E.pdf 237.11 kB
Double-Take protects The Massachusetts Housing Finance
Any failure of MassHousing’s highly complex IT infrastructure would interfere with it’s
ability to transact business with lending institutions and potentially result in a unwanted
temporary shutdown.
“With Double-Take Availability, the restoration of data and applications is cut down
to hours or less. It represents a tremendous advancement in disaster recovery and
business continuity.” Thad Darcy, User Support Specialist, MassHousing Computer Services
CS_DTA_MassHousing_E_101109.pdf 209.65 kB
Double-Take protects Fujifilm
As one of the world’s leading contract manufacturing organisations for the
biopharmaceutical industry, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies has to meet stringent
industry regulations and client requirements for business continuity. When the company
implemented a virtual data centre it looked to optimise its recovery point and time objectives
with a real-time replication DR solution.
“Downtime isn’t an option for us. We know that system recovery is only as good
as the last backup which is why a DR solution based on real-time replication was
so compelling for us in protecting our mission-critical applications and virtual
infrastructure.” Campbell Kay, IT & ASV Manager, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies
CS_DTA_FujiFilm_Diosynth_UK_110517.pdf 246.67 kB
Double-Take protects VSI
BSI wanted to improve its business continuity plan for its key applications, which ran
on both virtualised and physical servers. The company also had to deal with bandwidth
limitations, which had the potential to limit any continuity planning strategy. BSI implemented
a two-part solution – Double-Take Availability from Vision Solutions and Steelhead® wide
area network (WAN) optimisation appliances from Riverbed Technology – that addressed
these challenges while providing real-time protection for BSI’s servers and data.
“BSI’s continuity plans required the ability to move critical data from our production
servers over to a virtualised secondary location. In looking at the solutions on the
market, there was nothing that could meet our requirements around ease of use, cost
and bandwidth in the same way that Double-Take Availability could achieve.” Mark Conabeare, systems and network security manager at BSI.
CS_BSI_281010.V2UK.pdf 260.41 kB
Double-Take protects Infinis
Project Summary: Renewable energy company Infinis needed to protect its critical applications in real time. The company chose Double-Take Availability for its data replication capabilities, ensuring that information is protected as it is created.
“As an organisation with mobile workers across the UK, our applications have to supply data in real time. Any incident of downtime could affect our scheduling of work, and lead to systems not being seen in the right order. Double-Take Availability provides us with a simple, cost-effective approach to business continuity that ensures we don’t have this problem any longer.” Steve Merrell, Head of Systems, Infinis.
Infinis CS - Availability.pdf 330.41 kB
Double-Take protects Apollo Group
Project Summary: With offices distributed across the UK, The Apollo Group’s employees use the company’s IT systems to collaborate on projects both large and small. Access to information and files is critical to the successful delivery of projects, therefore these systems must be available at all times. To protect these applications and data, and to ensure fast recovery in the event of a failure, a full business continuity strategy was required.
“IT is vital to a company like ours, where multiple offices have to be supported. Key applications for our users include email for communication around projects, Microsoft SharePoint for collaboration and our file servers, which host project work and planning documents. Each of these systems is critical to our users, so they have to be protected against any risk of
downtime,” commented Mark Bowell, Infrastructure and Network Manager for the Apollo Group.
ApolloGroup_0510.pdf 320.34 kB
Double-Take protects Canopius
Project summary: Insurance and reinsurance group Canopius needed a robust business continuity strategy in place alongside a migration to a new SAN platform. With Double-Take® Move and Double-Take® Availability, the company achieved its migration faster and saved over £180,000 in costs.
“We were beginning to run out of space on our existing storage, so moving from our existing Fibre Channel SAN to an iSCSI-based system was an important strategic step. With Double-Take® Move, we reduced the time taken to migrate over to the new system from months to days. We have also been able to re-use our existing SAN, saving on hosting costs at our secondary site and cutting the time taken to recover systems to under 45 minutes.” Brent Gebbie, Infrastructure Services Manager, Canopius.
Canopious CS-move290310.pdf 446.61 kB
Whitepapers
Protecting Exchange 2010 : An executive overview of Double-Take Availability
Native backup can provide higher levels of data and system protection, but the need for 3rd-party software and hardware is still apparent. This document describes protection for Exchange Server 2010 and its component roles and illustrates how a a more complete solution for both high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR).
WPD-Protecting_Exchange_2010.pdf 110.11 kB
Virtualised Disaster Recovery from VMware and Vision Solutions
Cost-effi cient, dependable solutions for virtualised disaster recovery and business continuityVision Solutions and VMware technologies, when used together, can solve the challenge of providing disaster recovery for physical servers by combining virtualisation, real-time data replication and application availability. This combination of virtualisation and advanced protection for both data and applications reduces cost and complexity while increasing the resilience of your recovery infrastructure.
WP_Virtualisation VMware_UK_A4.pdf 67.08 kB
Real-time Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V
Double-Take Availability builds upon and extends the platform provided by Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V to provide numerous options for protection and recoverability of your virtual machine environment. It provides real-time data and system state protection that reduce the total cost of ownership for high availability, disaster recovery and remote office recoverability projects. Double-Take Availability integrates into your existing server and storage infrastructure to provide these recoverability solutions. This lets your IT staff spend more time solving business problems instead of struggling to overcome technical limitations all at an affordable price point.
WP_Hyper_V_UK_English.pdf 120.82 kB
Six Data Protection Tips for SMBs.
While native backup for Windows Small Business Server provides a small measure of protection, periodic tape backup can leave small businesses vulnerable to data and time loss in quantities they cannot afford. The key to getting back on track quickly is a comprehensive disaster recovery plan, including fast access to an up-to-the minute copy of your data. This whitepaper provides six tips for an SMB approach to protecting critical data. These tips used in conjunction with Double-Take® Availability from Double-Take® Software can help SMBs defend against crippling downtime and data loss.
WP 6 tips SMBs_UK English.pdf 107.75 kB
The Future, and Present, is Virtual
Most organisations, regardless of size, are reaping the rewards — and dealing with the challenges — of server virtualisationIn some areas, such as application performance, high availability, disaster recovery, and security, virtualisation simultaneously presents both opportunities and challenges. Because virtualisation is still a relatively young technology, some of these challenges and opportunities are only now being recognised and addressed. This white paper expands on these virtualisation issues and outlines the role that Vision Solutions plays in the virtualisation marketplace.
WP_Virtualisation_UK_110113.pdf 90.34 kB
Disaster Recovery Planning with Virtualisation Technologies
Virtualisation and RecoverabilityBusiness continuity is not just a good business practice – it can mean success or failure if data and applications on a production server are lost. Disaster recovery planning ensures organisations have the capability to continue essential functions across a wide range of situations that could disrupt normal operations. High availability is the cornerstone for most business continuity plans and is one of the most compelling reasons for evaluating and deploying data protection solutions. However, traditional data protection strategies focus on just the data and not the application.
WP_VirtualTechDRPlanning_UK_110113.pdf 211.05 kB
Thinking Beyond Tape
Better Backups with ReplicationDisaster preparedness can be expensive and complex, yet any recovery strategy still has potentially dangerous shortcomings if it’s based only on traditional tape backup. There is an easier, less expensive, safer alternative – continuous data replication to a remote recovery site over existing WAN connections. This alternative provides exponentially better remote disaster protection without adding significant cost or complexity.
WP beyond Tape_UK English.pdf 179.92 kB
Products
Vision Solutions Product Overview
Vision Solutions leads the information availability industry in quality and innovation, and in solutions that are both comprehensive and easy to run. Whether you have Windows, Linux, IBM I or IBM AIX on a single physical server or on hundreds of virtual environments across multiple data centres, Vision Solutions has the road-tested technologies you need for peak availability. Our solutions work for over 25,000 companies worldwide. If that works for you, we should too.
Product overviewv2.pdf 823.72 kB
Ensure the availability of critical systems with real-time
Application Availability for Windows Servers Double-Take® Availability provides continuous data replication over any distance so you always have access to a current copy of your data, applications and operating system (OS). Double-Take Availability monitors changes to all protected files and replicates only the bytes that change. You can replicate to a disaster recovery site as far away as you would like, over standard IP networks, for maximum protection against data loss and improve performance by compressing the protected data before sending.
DS_Availability_UK English.pdf 167.60 kB
No-Downtime Migrations with Double-Take Move
The last thing you want to do is spend your nights and weekends in the server room. That’s why we created Double-Take Move.
DS_Move_UK English.pdf 75.39 kB
Continuous Replication with Double-Take RecoverNow
Having an up-to-the-minute copy of branch office data and applications can keep a bad day from getting a lot worse. Double-Take RecoverNow copies the whole server so you can rewind from an outage and fast forward through downtime.
DS_RecoverNow_UK English.pdf 153.61 kB
