New Offering Slashes Recovery Time by Leveraging Virtualization
SOUTHBOROUGH, MA. – September 15, 2008 – Double-Take® Software (NASDAQ: DBTK), a leading infrastructure software company, today announced the release of Livewire™, which provides continuous full system image backup to a centralized disk based recovery server that can be local or at a remote site. Because it is a full system image, everything on the protected server including data, applications, operating system and configuration information is continuously replicated to the repository server allowing that entire server to be easily restored to its most recent state or to a previous point in time snapshot. Livewire can restore server images to dissimilar physical hardware or can automatically provision a virtual machine and restore a server image into it with a few simple steps.
Double-Take Software designed Livewire specifically to protect servers assigned to lower tiers of the disaster recovery plan. These servers and the data on them are still important to the business, but they are not the first priority to recover in a time of disaster. Traditionally, the lower recovery priority on these servers has relegated them to tape back-up, which requires a lengthy and manual tape restoration process, including the loss of any changes made since the last backup. Servers protected by Livewire are kept up to date on disk and ready to recover to any physical or virtual machine in just hours – or less, depending on the size of the server to recover.
“Livewire from Double-Take Software offers a solution to a key but underserved segment of the Disaster Recovery marketplace as identified by IDC – protecting and recovering those servers which are “next” in importance to the organization. Once the Tier One servers have been recovered, those “next” in line can be recovered within an hour or two, so that most of the IT infrastructure is back to pre-disaster levels of service,” said James Baker, IDC Research Manager for Storage Software. “Livewire works in physical, virtual, or mixed physical and virtual environments letting the user select the most optimal recovery point, time, and location for the organization.”