News Release

Double-Take® Software Announces New Centralised Backup and Availability Products
Offerings Provide Businesses with Reliable Disaster

Released: 21st October 2009
Publisher: Double-Take Software

Recovery Solutions for Critical Workloads that Enhance Remote Office Backup/Recovery Capabilities

Worcester, UK 20th October 2009 - Double-Take® Software (NASDAQ: DBTK) is releasing Double-Take® Backup and Double-Take® Availability, rounding out Double-Take Software’s Workload Optimization suite of products that focus on providing businesses with first-class Disaster Recovery and Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO) Backup and Recovery solutions. Double-Take Backup version 5.2 introduces a new approach to backup that makes it easier to continuously protect a remote or branch office’s workloads in the event of an outage, and allows a company to get its workloads back up and running rapidly by recovering them to new physical hardware or into a new virtual machines with minimal effort.

Double-Take Availability version 5.2 adds exciting new application-aware monitoring capabilities, enhances its protection of Microsoft SQL environments and introduces a new way of re-synchronising protected data which can intelligently keep track of what data changed while replication was suspended, dramatically reducing re-synchronisation times compared to competing solutions.

About Double-Take Backup
Disasters, which are unpredictable by nature, emerge in many shapes and sizes, making it important to have a reliable backup plan in place for remote office and branch office environments. Traditionally, many businesses have used unsophisticated periodic backup solutions to protect critical systems which are expensive, complex and unreliable. These challenges are only exacerbated at branch offices and remote offices, where there is often a lack of skilled IT personnel to manage the process, as well as distance and bandwidth challenges to overcome.

Double-Take Backup introduces a new approach to Remote Office and Branch Office (ROBO) backup by continuously sending changes to a central location, saving time and money while offering better protection from lost data and advanced recovery capabilities.

Double-Take Backup’s Features

  • Double-Take Backup offers continuous full server protection (OS, applications and data), eliminates backup windows and allows protected data to be sent efficiently over WAN connections to a central location.
  • Double-Take Backup combines continuous replication with the ability to recover to any point-in-time (CDP).
  • Double-Take Backup makes it easy to recover from disasters of any size by allowing IT administrators to recover anything from individual e-mails to entire workloads (OS, applications and data) either to the original server, new physical hardware or to a VM running on VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V.
  • Further differentiating itself from other solutions on the market today, Double-Take Backup includes file archiving capabilities with its Double-Take Cargo™ feature, allowing organisations to reclaim under-utilised storage in branch offices and speed the time it takes to recover after a loss.

About Double-Take Availability

Downtime whether planned or unplanned causes disruption and loss of productivity for employees as well as tedious and time-consuming processes for IT managers. All host-based replication solutions on the market require protected data to be resynchronised, or re-mirrored, any time protected servers are rebooted a process that can take significant time. Until the protected data has resynchronised after these outages, customers’ data is vulnerable.

Double-Take Availability introduces a new way of synchronising protected data, intelligently tracking what data has changed while replication is suspended and only sending changes to that data. This avoids the need to compare the entire dataset, which can take hours or even days with other competing solutions. Re-mirroring with Double-Take Availability takes just minutes or even seconds.

Double-Take Availability’s Features

  • Double-Take Availability now provides support for VMware ESX v4 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2 and the ability to access the most up-to-date data immediately following a disaster, maintenance or downtime.
  • The product’s monitoring capabilities now include application-specific intelligence, allowing users to determine if application services are “alive”, and attempt to take corrective action and initiate failover based on administrator-established policies. Support is included for popular applications like Exchange, SQL and SharePoint and the feature can be easily extended to support any application running on Microsoft Windows.
  • Application Manager Support for Cluster to Standalone protection for Microsoft SQL automates the configuration and management of SQL cluster protection to a non-clustered system at the DR site. This allows administrators using SQL Server in this way to take advantage of Application Manager capabilities like pre-flight checking and target data verification.

Laura DuBois, analyst at IDC commented, “Double-Take Software is making it simple for businesses to have comprehensive disaster recovery and business continuity plans in place with its Workload Optimization suite of products. By combining its existing features and functionality with new updates, the company is providing a compelling suite of products for data migration, flexibility, backup and availability.”

“Double-Take Software is continuously innovating to bring new approaches to disaster recovery”, said Dean Goodermote, President and CEO of Double-Take Software. “Double-Take Backup and Double-Take Availability provide businesses with important functionality that will help them protect against disaster and round out a suite of products that play essential roles in disaster recovery and business continuity.”

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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

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Goode International
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