Double-Take Software and PlateSpin have formed a
partnership to offer the centralised backup of entire Windows
servers with a full recovery solution that, the two companies says,
is fast, flexible and hardware-independent.
Those using Double-Take Software coupled with PlateSpin
PowerConvert will be offered continuous, whole-server protection
and bare-metal recovery. This is intended to restore servers
automatically and recover business-critical data immediately onto
any physical or virtual platform, rather than manually installing
everything from scratch, application by application.
"The first initiative of this new partnership provides customers
with a solution that uses the best technologies from both
companies," explains John Stetic, director of Product management at
PlateSpin.
The two firms say that the complementary solution from Double-Take
Software and PlateSpin creates a copy of an entire server,
including the OS, applications and data. The server and its
applications can be replicated locally or across long-distance WAN
connections, to a central backup repository. Systems can then be
restored to the same or different hardware, or even to a virtual
machine.
Double-Take claims that the recovery process leverages its
real-time protection capability for a continuously updated copy of
the data and that PlateSpin PowerConvert's OS Portability
technology provides hardware-independent restore, which eliminates
the need to reinstall or reconfigure a failed system.
This is meant to contrast with traditional imaging or backup
solutions that require recovery to identical hardware or data
protection involving point-in-time-based image captures. This, say
the two companies, results in out-of-date image archives requiring
administrators to manually reinstall and reconfigure the server's
OS and applications before recovery can occur.
