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Protecting Microsoft SharePoint with Double-Take for Windows 5.0

As the distributed workforce grows, the need for online collaboration and document management grows with it. Microsoft SharePoint streamlines online collaboration, making it possible to create remote project teams with only an Internet connection. However, when these teams aren't functioning because they can't access data or critical applications like SharePoint,...

Tags: Double-Take, Microsoft SharePoint, Double-Take Software Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-03-01

Thinking Beyond Tape: The Case Against Tape Backup

Many companies are already backing up their main and branch office systems to tape, but what they don't understand is just how vulnerable their data and their business remains. This whitepaper explores the high cost, complexity and potentially dangerous shortcomings of a strategy based only on tape backup. When recoverability...

Tags: Double-Take Software Inc., Tape Backup, Backups

White papers 2008-02-01

Data Protection Strategies Leveraging Replication

As dependence on continuous access to critical data grows, so does the importance of avoiding service interruption. This paper examines four data protection strategies and compares their merits for the most common business continuance scenarios including providing high availability, providing effective disaster recovery, enhancing backup and restore, and data migration...

Tags: Data Protection, Double-Take Software Inc., Replication, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management

White papers 2008-02-01

Double-Take Software Case Study: MWABank

MWABank is primarily a direct bank, one of only approximately 50 direct banks in the United States. Prior to working with Double-Take Software, MWABank had a cumbersome Disaster Recovery DR solution. At the time, the only thing to support recovery if an outage should occur was to rebuild from storage...

Tags: Double-Take Software Inc., MWABank, Disaster Recovery, Financial Services, Data Management

Case studies 2007-10-16

Double-Take Virtual Systems and Disaster Recovery

Virtual server technologies provide companies with the ability to do more with less, enabling the consolidation of data and applications onto a single server. The need to protect these virtualized systems is paramount. Double-Take® delivers enterprise-class disaster recovery and high availability solutions for cutting-edge virtual environments. Read this white paper...

Tags: Double-Take, High Availability, Double-Take Software Inc., Disaster Recovery, Data Management

White papers 2007-04-01

Virtualization Technologies and Their Impact on Continuous Operations Planning (COOP)

Virtual server technologies provide government agencies with the ability to do more with less, enabling the consolidation of data and applications onto a single server. The result is reduced costs, simplified IT management, and minimized space requirements. The need to protect these virtualized systems is paramount and in situations where...

Tags: Double-Take, Double-Take Software Inc., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2007-04-01

The Keys to Recoverability

ESG Analyst, Lauren Whitehouse, discusses Double-Take Software's concept of "recoverability" - which involves layers of protection that not only mitigate the risk of data loss, but also maintain the health and uptime of systems and applications. By preparing for, preventing and minimizing the impact of a catastrophic event, IT organizations...

Tags: Double-Take Software Inc., Product Marketing, Strategy, Marketing, Management

White papers 2007-03-01

Keeping Your Wireless Email Connected: Ensuring the Availability of BlackBerry Enterprise Server

Wireless e-mail might arguably be the greatest enhancement to employee productivity since the cell phone, enabling employees to keep up with e-mail when traveling. It is more important than ever to ensure that messaging systems and wireless e-mail services are protected from disasters and other outages. When recoverability matters,...

Tags: RIM Blackberry Enterprise Server, Enterprise Server, Double-Take Software Inc., Wireless Email, Server, RIM BlackBerry, Wireless E-mail, Connected Corp., E-mail, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Online Communications

White papers 2007-01-01

Whole Server Protection from a Single Solution

The complexity of traditional recovery solutions compounds an already difficult situation, and heightens the opportunity for human error. Speed and quality of recovery are extremely important when customers and employees are relying on access to critical data, but the average restoration takes hours at best. Check out this paper to...

Tags: Data Protection, Recovery, Restoration, Double-Take Software Inc., Disaster Recovery, Backups, Servers, Data Management, Hardware

White papers 2006-10-01

Protecting Microsoft SQL Servers

Although SQL Server offers options for database protection and recovery, none of them is intended to provide a complete disaster recovery solution. Make sure you've take the time to develop a high availability and disaster recovery plan to cover unforeseen catastrophes that might threaten your database in the future. When...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Double-Take Software Inc., Server, Microsoft Corp., Disaster Recovery, Databases, Storage, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

White papers 2006-02-01

Ensuring High Availability With Microsoft Exchange Server

Clustering Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2000 Server systems can provide the high availability that's so important for a business-critical email application. If user is considering clustering Exchange, he or she can take several steps to improve deployment, such as getting cluster-specific training, planning ahead, building extra redundancy into the...

Tags: Double-Take, Clustering, Microsoft Exchange Server, High Availability, Double-Take Software Inc., Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, E-mail Servers, Groupware, E-mail, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications

White papers 2005-06-09

Additional Resources

Review: CardIris 3.0 scanning software

I've been using the tiny IRIS Business Card Reader II for about two years and love it. A colleague, Ryan Kaplan, recently shared his experience with CardIris scanning software: Having purchased several scanners in the last year to make my life more paperless I finally decided to take the...

Tags: Software, Card, Business Card, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-17

Novell produces lead pony for Silverlight

Something has always bothered me about Novell's Mono project. Those feelings came together this week with the release of Moonlight, Novell's implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Linux. It wasn't Miguel deIcaza's blog post on the software. This is not beta ware, he wrote. It's...

Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Pony, Linux, Open Source, .Net, Development Tools, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-17

Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week

Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including a fashionable Bluetooth headset, Bose on-ear headphones, and the BlackBerry Curve 8330 for Sprint.Here''s our weekly roundup of the new products CNET reviewers liked best. 1. Aliph Jawbone 2 black Editors'' rating: 8.7 The...

Tags: Headphone, Bose, RIM BlackBerry, Photograph, Bottom Line, CNET', Price, It', FireWire, Bluetooth, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Wireless, Hardware, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-17

Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?

Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether...

Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Vision, Wall, Management Team, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Accounting, Construction, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Management, Anshu Sharma

Blog posts 2008-05-16

XP on XO: Negroponte has lost his bearings

At ZD's Hardware 2.0 blog, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes cites this quote from former OLPC developer Ivan Krstic about Nicholas Negroponte's rapidly shifting mission statement: In fact, I quit when Nicholas told me — and not just me — that learning was never part of the mission....

Tags: Education, Team, Microsoft Windows XP, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Nicholas Negroponte, Team Management, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Microsoft, HP ready XP SP3 endless-reboot patches

Help is on its way for users affected by the Windows XP Service Pack SP 3 endless-reboot problem that has plagued some users for the past week-plus. Both Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are readying patches that should remedy the glitch, which seems to affect primarily users of AMD-based...

Tags: Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Photos: Video cameras eye Richmond Port

Northern California's busy Port of Richmond has completed installation of a wireless mesh digital video surveillance system.The Port of Richmond, located about 15 miles northeast of San Francisco, has completed installation of a wireless mesh digital video surveillance system with the help of security firm ADT and a $2.3 million...

Tags: Video Surveillance, Richmond, Video Camera, Video, Photograph, Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-16

Office 2008 for Mac: The straw that broke the backs of Microsoft's Windows developers?

Could it be that a Macintosh program will be the tipping point for the confidence that ISVs have in Microsoft as a technology partner? One c-level technologist for a Windows enterprise app says "no more" to Redmond's vision. I wrote the other day about Microsoft's Mac Business...

Tags: Developer, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office, Window, ISV, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Engineer, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-05-16

XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?

Updated: The One Laptop Per Child program will put XP on its XO laptop and children in the developing world will have a choice between Windows and Linux. On the surface, a little choice isn't going to kill anybody. In fact, choice is good. And if some...

Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, XP Screen, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-16