Double-Take Software and PlateSpin Partner to Protect Entire Windows Servers; Hardware-independent solution combines real-time data replication, whole server protection and bare-metal recovery

Double-Take Software and PlateSpin have formed a partnership to offer centralized backup of entire Windows servers with a full recovery solution that is fast, flexible and hardware independent. Customers can combine Double-Take (Double-Take Software's data replication software package) with PlateSpin's PowerConvert (PlateSpin's OS portability software package) to experience continuous, whole-server protection and bare-metal recovery. They can restore servers automatically and recover business-critical data immediately onto any physical or virtual platform. This solution is much easier than manually reinstalling everything from scratch, application by application.

"The first initiative of this new partnership between Double-Take Software and PlateSpin provides customers with a solution that uses the best technologies from both companies," said John Stetic, Director of Product Management at PlateSpin. "Our customers are looking for proven, reliable and cost-effective ways to address their business continuity needs. By leveraging PlateSpin's OS Portability technology in PowerConvert and the replication technology within Double-Take, they can reduce costs by achieving an unprecedented level of restore flexibility and speed."

"With this joint solution, customers can simply replicate entire servers back to a central site to maintain a continuously updated recovery image," said Bob Roudebush, Director of Solutions Engineering at Double-Take Software. "They can enjoy reliable, whole-server recovery at a fraction of the time and cost it takes to use solutions like tape-based data recovery."

The two products are extremely complementary, and together form an optimal solution for disaster recovery. The server and its applications can now be replicated locally or across long distance WAN connections to a central backup repository. And unlike traditional imaging or backup solutions which require identical hardware, this solution leverages PlateSpin PowerConvert which allows systems to be quickly restored to the same or different hardware, or even to a virtual machine. And rather than having out of date image archives, the solution leverages Double-Take's real-time protection capability for a continuously updated copy of the data. Disaster Recovery made easy!

For more information, visit www.doubletake.com or www.platespin.com.

Posted by David Marshall on May 31, 2006 05:15 PM