Disaster Recovery encompasses the process, policies and procedures of restoring operations critical to the resumption of business, including regaining access to data (records, hardware, software, etc.), communications (Telco, internet, video, etc.), workplace, and other business processes after a natural or human-induced disaster. Compared to the minor ‘disasters’ of losing a disk drive or internet connectivity, disaster recovery remediates events that globally impact your business and threaten to halt the very viability of your enterprise.
Every business and organization can experience a serious incident which can prevent it from continuing normal operations. This can happen any day at any time. The potential causes are innumerable: from flood, fire, hurricane, explosion, theft, computer malfunction, accident, etc. Every company has different criteria when it comes to computer network downtime. For one company a single day or two without their mission critical server is acceptable, yet for others one minute is unacceptable. Disaster preparedness can range from having a simple method for the backup of your data such as a tape or USB drive to having a highly available fault tolerant system in place to avoid downtime altogether. The first step to this preparedness is considering your unique business needs, your budget requirements, and the level of risk you are prepared to take.
Because disaster recovery planning is different for every organization, it requires a detailed consultative approach. Simply put, it requires a business partner who will listen to you and customize a preparedness plan that will take into account your needs and your budget. Because our products and services rely upon distributed computing resources that have no single fault line for failure, VBS can design a disaster recovery system that give you the ability to secure fail safe redundancy for every aspect of your information technology, from data storage to processing.
DoubleTake Backup (Doubletake.com)
About DoubleTake 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.
Doubletake Backup 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 organizations to reclaim under-utilized storage in branch offices and speed the time it takes to recover after a loss.
About DoubleTake 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 resynchronized, or re-mirrored, any time protected servers are rebooted – a process that can take significant time. Until the protected data has resynchronized after these outages, customers’ data is vulnerable.
∙ Double-Take Availability introduces a new way of synchronizing 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.
Doubletake 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.