Worcester, UK – 24th November 2009 – Double-Take® Software (NASDAQ:DBTK) was presented with the Specialist Vendor of the Year Award at the CRN Channel Awards. The award, voted for by readers of CRN, highlights the work that Double-Take Software has done over the past 12 months in growing and supporting its channel partners.

During 2009, Double-Take Software has launched three new partner initiatives aimed at expanding its channel base and providing larger sales and margin opportunities for its existing partners. Programmes run by Double-Take Software include:

• A Service Provider License Agreement programme, designed to support partners that want to offer cloud-based managed services such as workload availability, remote backup and recovery based on Double-Take Software’s leading data replication technology
• A Solution Partner Programme, allowing independent software vendors and other solution providers to include business continuity and disaster recovery functionality as part of their offerings
• A Professional Services Products initiative, providing partners with easier ways to sell professional support and testing to their customers

Ian Masters, UK sales and marketing director at Double-Take Software UK, commented, “This award means so much to us, as it validates all the work that we have put into our channel initiatives over the past year. We want to ensure that our partners enjoy the best levels of support, training and product development so that they can successfully fulfill the needs of their customers around workload optimisation, backup and recovery. The CRN Awards ceremony represented an excellent opportunity for us to network and meet up with our channel partners, and to win the award is a massive achievement.”

Double-Take® Software offers affordable workload optimisation products that are simple to use and enable you to migrate workloads, continuously backup and recover data and applications, ensure workload availability or easily manage desktop and server workloads in physical and virtual environments, regardless of location. For more information on Double-Take Software, go to www.doubletake.com.

About Double-Take® Software
Headquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts, Double-Take® Software (Nasdaq: DBTK) is a leading provider of affordable Workload Optimization products that are simple to use and enable IT managers to easily move, protect, recover and more flexibly run critical IT workloads in physical and virtual environments, regardless of platform or location. With its unparalleled partner programs, technical support, and professional services, Double-Take Software is the solution of choice for more than 19,000 customers worldwide, from SMEs to the Fortune 500. Double-Take Software was named a winner of the Best of Tech·Ed 2009 awards program in the System Management and Operations category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine for its Double-Take® Move product. Information about Double-Take Software’s products and services can be found at www.doubletake.com.

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Contact:
Ian Masters
Double-Take Software
Tel: +44 (0) 333 1234 200
Email: imasters@doubletake.com

Double-Take Press Contacts:
Mark Kember / Carolann Bara
Goode International
Tel: +44 (0) 1491 873 323
Email: mark.kember@goode.co.uk / carolann.bara@goode.co.uk