Achieving effective and efficient high availability protection for larger IBM i environments requires careful thought and clear understanding of the technology options. This white paper describes what you need to know in order to make an informed decision about IBM i high availability strategies so that your business requirements for Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) are not compromised. Read more.

Achieving effective and efficient high availability protection for larger IBM i environments requires careful thought and clear understanding of the technology options. This white paper describes what you need to know in order to make an informed decision about IBM i high availability strategies so that your business requirements for Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) are not compromised. Read more.

Journaling? RAID? Vaulting? Mirroring? Know your data protection and recovery options! Download this information-packed 29-page report that reviews the spectrum of IBM i (i5/OS) and AIX resilience and recovery technologies and best practices choices, including the latest, next-generation solutions. Read more.

This white paper provides a basic understanding of the building blocks of IT and business continuity—from understanding the concepts of disaster recovery and information availability to calculating the business impact of downtime and selecting the right software solution. Readers can quickly match their specific optimum uptime objectives with the easiest and most cost-effective IT strategy. Read more.

The newest edition of this unique report is filled with survey findings from over 4,000 individuals responsible for the resilience and protection of AIX and IBM i (i5/OS) environments. Discover if and how your peers are meeting recovery-time and recovery-point objectives, disaster recovery plans and more. Read more.

With the ever-increasing reliance of businesses upon their IT systems and electronically stored business data comes an equivalent increase in management’s duty to eprotecting them against all causes of loss or damage. This white paper will address the assessment of threats to your IT operations, inclusive of systems, applications, and data, and will guide you through the process of developing solid numbers around the potential costs they represent. Read more.

This white paper explores how the power of an information availability solution can transform that non-productive, non-profitable downtime into the optimum level of value-producing business uptime for your organization. Read more.

Aberdeen Group has embarked on a survey of end-users, in different job roles and across numerous industry sectors, to gain insight into customers’ data protection strategies. About 100 customers were surveyed and the results presented in this white paper reveal what drives customers’ data protection strategies. Read more.

For AIX IT departments looking to take the next step in data protection strategies, CDP (Continuous Data Protection) is an essential consideration. Analysts agree that businesses will be incorporating this strategy in the next few years as part of an integrated solution. CDP enables you to reverse data corruption in a fraction of the time and labor required for recovery from tape. Find out how CDP provides the easiest, most effective protection against the loss of critical data. Read more.

For AIX IT departments looking to take the next step in data protection strategies, PowerHA (formerly HACMP) clusters multiple servers to shared storage, offering automatic recovery of applications and system resources if a failure occurs with the primary server. But clustering is only one part of a truly resilient IT infrastructure. The other essential component is data replication technology. Read more.

Planning for recovery is a requirement in businesses of all sizes. Business requirements are not the only mandates that may be driving the evolution of your recovery plan. Various industry-specific regulatory mandates, including Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and SEC, specify requirements for data retention and recoverability. Do you have a plan that meets your recovery requirements across these areas? Read more.

Downtime and data loss pose intolerable risks to every business today. From IT departments to the Board Room, managers have seen the importance of business uptime and data protection to continued success, productivity and profitability. This white paper will provide a road map to the most effective strategies and technologies to protect data and provide fast recovery should data be lost or corrupted due to accident or malicious action. Read more.

IT departments that find it increasingly difficult to perform upgrades and system migrations on weekends – even long holiday weekends – will soon be faced with a hard decision: Either limp along on an old, overburdened server or upgrade to a more powerful model but face hours of downtime during key operating hours. There is, however, a third option. Download this executive overview and learn how to affordably remedy the problem of downtime during server upgrades. Read more.

Until recently, System i high availability solutions were reserved mostly for large enterprises. Read about what has changed in both the technology as well as the marketplace that has made it possible for small and mid-sized companies to cost-justify the “luxury” of rapid and complete data recovery. Read more.

Journaling is a powerful feature, one that IBM has continued to develop and improve over the years. Yet, depending upon your business requirements, you probably still need more protection against downtime than journaling alone can provide. This white paper will cover what you need to know about journaling, what it can do and how it supports and cooperates with high availability software. Read more.

This paper presents an overview of IBM System i high availability to companies that are beginning to explore this powerful business continuity technology. The critical components of high availability solutions are detailed in this paper, including data replication engines, system monitors, role swap capabilities, and the importance of autonomic processes. Also provided is information on the cost of planned and unplanned downtime, and a brief overview of disaster recovery strategies. Read more.

Since firms are being held to a higher standard of high availability, the challenge for most is to design server and storage systems that are truly continuous and that guard against unplanned downtime. That means high availability, long associated with application/system uptime, is evolving to include the service of data availability. Find out how Aberdeen uses two key performance criteria to distinguish Best in Class (BIC) companies that leverage a high availability strategy. Read more.

Due to its integration into every aspect of your business, any lack of availability of your SAP® application, or its underlying data, represents a serious threat to your ability to deliver your products and services to your customers. This white paper will review the unique issues related to High Availability and Disaster Recovery in your SAP environment, including 2- and 3-tier architectures, and guide you in developing appropriate SAP data and application management strategies. Read more.

This white paper shows you how a software-based data replication solution can drive value by providing simplified, on-demand enterprise-wide data sharing and right-time data integration for any business. It’ll review how such a solution can easily enable data replication from and between today’s most popular databases and every organization’s nightmare: legacy databases. Read more.

A set of highly automated System i management and optimization tools can reduce the strain on the IT department, while ensuring timely performance of vital management and optimization tasks. But before you can set out to evaluate the tools available to undertake this automation, you must first have a clear understanding of what needs to be done. This white paper examines some of the areas that you need to address in order to ensure healthy System i operations that deliver the highest possible performance. Read more.

IBM i provides a wealth of data to help analyze performance and storage usage. This information can be employed to liberate wasted space and tune the system. The problem is that, using IBM i administration tools alone, much of this information is cumbersome to access and in some instances, easy to overlook. This executive overview explores the requirements for these tools and details how to fully utilize the data to optimize the performance and storage of the system. Read more.

Companies that rely on financial management and ERP applications are realizing that ongoing archiving can provide a long-term solution to the problem of accelerating database growth. Advanced Data Archiving is required to achieve effective, sustainable Data Lifecycle Management. This white paper explores the key issues driving the need for more effective and manageable data archiving and provides a roadmap to sustainable data management that also yields measurable ROI. Read more.

Credit union members are now demanding that certain services be available 24 hours a day and outages of these services are very noticeable to an ever increasing audience. This paper explains how to achieve minimal data loss as well as rapid, reliable recovery all while not imposing any downtime on production applications. Read more.

Not complying with the recently imposed financial regulations may have serious consequences for financial services institutions. The goals of this white paper are to explain the impact of specific regulations on information availability and to give an overview of the range of solutions available. It also offers straightforward guidance on how to develop an effective Information Availability strategy. Read more.

This white paper explores how the power of an information availability solution can unlock the latent potential of your IT environment and deliver new value for your organization. It includes an “Action Worksheet” to use in discussions with your IT executives. Read more.

This white paper shows how Vision Solutions’ MIMIX® Information Availability solutions ensure the availability and accessibility of data and applications, regardless of planned or unplanned interruptions. They transform costly unproductive downtime into value producing uptime and help IT managers solve the challenges of automated patient care and compliance. Read more.

This white paper describes how high availability software, like Vision Solutions’ MIMIX information availability solution, eliminates planned and unplanned downtime and ensures that retail data and applications remain available even in the face of disasters or hardware and software failures or during inevitable maintenance periods. Read more.

This white paper provides an overview of information availability solutions for gaming organizations. Find out how to use information availability to cut costs, improve customer services and solve your data protection challenges. Discover strategies that could make the difference for your gaming organization. Read more.

In this white paper, you’ll learn how an information availability solution helps transportation companies fulfill their commitments to customers and maximize business performance by keeping IT systems protected and available. Read more.

This white paper explores how the power of an information availability solution can unlock the latent potential of your IT environment and deliver new value for your organization. It can enable your organization to immediately tap into the unused value—downtime—that exists within your IT infrastructure. Read more.

Application and data availability can make or break a business. These days backing up to the Cloud is a simple, cost effective way to get the advantages of a datacenter without the expense of creating and managing a physical center. Double-Take Cloud is a simple way to migrate, backup and restore data and applications to the cloud with minimal downtime and complete control over your expenses. Read more.

This paper describes protection for Exchange Server 2010, its component roles and illustrates how a combination of native solutions and Double-Take Software products can provide a more complete solution for both high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). Read more.

Many storage area networks (SANs) today can replicate data across distances between similar models of storage hardware and this can be an important part of any business continuity or disaster recovery strategy. Double-Take Availability is a software-based solution that also replicates data but at the host level, providing higher availability when systems are at the same location and disaster protection and recovery when they are not. Read more.

Combining the shared OS delivery mechanisms of Double-Take® Flex with the user workspace management technology of RES PowerFuse provides an effective hybrid solution for desktop provisioning and patching. Read more.

Regardless of form or fury, disasters can take their toll on any business. In fact, the Department of Homeland Security puts businesses in two categories: those who have already experienced the pain of losing valuable electronic data, and those who will at some point in the future. Well-prepared businesses know that deploying the right resources, processes and technology to protect key information and minimize downtime at their headquarters is important; but having adequate resources and technology in place to protect invaluable data in branch offices is just as important, though often overlooked. Read more.

Improvements to Failover Clustering do not yet provide a way to replicate the shared data used by a cluster which is truly the "last mile" in terms of building multi-site cluster architectures. GeoCluster provides a way to efficiently replicate these data changes and allow cluster nodes to quickly restore application services after a failure. Read more.

Double-Take® Software and Microsoft are offering a joint disaster recovery solution for virtualized environments based on GeoCluster™ from Double-Take. This joint solution will allow customers to implement Windows Server® Failover Clustering without shared storage or geographic restrictions, eliminating a single point of failure (the SAN) and giving you the freedom to locate Hyper-V™ cluster nodes anywhere. Combined with the Quick Migration features of Hyper-V, administrators will more easily be able to move Virtual Machines (VMs) across hundreds or even thousands of miles. A software approach encouraged by Microsoft, GeoCluster provides the technology and flexibility you need to ensure maximum availability for Hyper-V VMs at a fraction of the cost. Read more.

Building and maintaining computer systems is no easy task and information technology managers are constantly looking for better tools to reduce the total cost of managing their data centers and infrastructure. Advances in computer, networking and storage technology allow us to separate the various parts of our infrastructure to specialized platforms. For example, storage area networks have allowed us to separate the data storage from our servers in much the same way that file servers are used to separate data from desktops and provide more robust management functionality such as centralized backup and recoverability. Read more.

Migrating applications, systems and data has always been a challenge for IT staff; in fact, most have just gotten used to the pain and suffering that comes with migrations. To properly migrate applications and data to new platforms involves risk and takes time to complete, meanwhile users have to stop changing data while it's migrated. The larger the storage footprint, the longer that it's going to take, and migrations routinely take hours or days to complete. Read more.

Migrating applications, systems and data has always been a challenge for IT staff; in fact, most have just gotten used to the pain and suffering that comes with migrations. To properly migrate applications and data to new platforms involves risk and takes time to complete, meanwhile users have to stop changing data while it's migrated. The larger the storage footprint, the longer that it's going to take, and migrations routinely take hours or days to complete. Read more.

Double-Take for Hyper-V builds extends the platform provided by Microsoft Windows 2008 Hyper-V to provide numerous options for protection and recoverability of your virtual machine environment. It provides real-time data and system state protection that reduce the total cost of ownership for high availability, disaster recovery and remote office recoverability projects. Double-Take for Hyper-V integrates into your existing server and storage infrastructure to provide these recoverability solutions, allowing your IT staff to spend more time solving business problems instead of struggling to overcome technical limitations all at an affordable price point. Read more.

Server virtualization is a compelling technology for many organizations largely due to the economic benefits it provides. Multiple operating systems (virtual machines) can run on a single physical machine, consolidating workloads. With it, organizations have been able to create an “always-on” data center—one that self-heals, dynamically scales in real time, is based on commodity components, and is easy to manage and maintain. Read more.

When an organization depends on its data, the challenge is to be able to recover that data with the minimal amount of data loss and in the shortest possible time should the unimaginable happen. While most organizations focus on disaster recovery so they can resume operations quickly after a major outage, it is just as important for those organizations to excel at operational recovery in order to have a complete business continuity plan. This whitepaper addresses the current challenges for operational recovery and introduces a fast and efficient software-based Continuous Data Protection (CDP) product, TimeData™, which allows companies to easily recover their data from any point in time. Read more.

The need to protect virtualized systems is paramount and in situations where companies are looking to reduce the costs associated with disaster recovery planning, virtualization can enable easier recovery without a great deal of additional cost. Double-Take® Availability and Double-Take® Backup delivers enterprise-class disaster recovery and high availability solutions for cutting-edge virtual environments. Read more.

This document addresses the contingency plan and physical access control requirements of the Administrative Simplification security provision of HIPAA. It will assist health care providers (doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, health insurers, clearinghouses, or any organization directly handling patients' health care information), in understanding how Double-Take can be implemented to fulfill some of these requirements. Read more.

Protecting SharePoint data and access with Double-Take may be one of the most cost efficientand effective things you can do to protect your profitability. Read more.

By replicating BES data continuously with Double-Take and combining that up-to-date copy of the data with the ability to monitor and failover the BES application, mobile users can remain connected to co-workers, partners and employees, even during any disaster or outage. Read more.

Double-Take solutions can deliver a comprehensive portfolio of services to help assess, design, plan, and implement effective data availability and integrity, in any outage or disaster. Read more.

This paper describes some technologies and approaches for achieving business continuity within the Windows environment; specifically, by combining replication software and Windows Storage Server 2003, businesses can reliably safeguard their data while realizing cost and efficiency improvements in their storage management and provisioning. Read more.

Double-Take's server and operational recovery products not only will provide the technology necessary to deploy, move and migrate a duplicate data center, it also provides ease of management and the peace of mind to know that critical systems will be able to fully protect even the smallest interruption, whether planned or unplanned. Read more.

The combination of the award-winning, proven protection and recovery capabilities of Double-Take with the new recovery and availability features of Microsoft Exchange Server can provide an end-to-end solution for Exchange protection, eliminate single points of failure and provide the utmost flexibility and redundancy for your business-critical Exchange messaging data. Read more.

Just like major corporations, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are increasingly reliant on the critical data stored on their servers. Limited resources and vulnerability to interruptions put small and midsize businesses at higher risk, and relying on native backup for a small business server can leave gaps in the disaster recovery plan. While native backup for Windows Small Business Server provides a small measure of protection, periodic tape backup can leave small businesses vulnerable to data and time loss in quantities they cannot afford. The key to getting back on track quickly is a comprehensive disaster recovery plan, including fast access to an up-to-the minute copy of your data. Read more.

In order to maintain high service levels in their disaster recovery facilities, many organizations must implement one-to-one configurations. However, some SQL Server disaster scenarios are not required to service the same level of transactions in the event of a failure. Many-to-one protection of SQL Server can be accomplished with Double-Take and native features of SQL Server. Read more.

Tape backups are expensive, require a lot of manual intervention, leave gaps in protection and have high failure rates. If you can’t afford to lose time and data, software-based replication and restoration may be a better solution.Read more.

Though server virtualization technology has changed the IT landscape for the better in many ways, it has also presented several new challenges. One of the chief concerns that IT decision makers face is how to most effectively migrate between disparate server and storage infrastructures without halting production applications or requiring extensive manual intervention. Using a combination of real-time data replication and full-server failover technologies for workload migration can be an effective way to address this challenge. Read more.

With solutions like tape backup, even a successful recovery results in the loss of any data that has changed since the backup was made. Livewire™ from Double-Take® Software provides whole-server data protection that simplifies the restoration process and reduces the time and effort involved with server recovery. Read more.

With the introduction of Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1, Microsoft opened up an entirely new era in Exchange Server protection. Not only is this the first version of Exchange Server to include any form of built-in log shipping solutions, but the integration with SharePoint, Microsoft Office and a host of 3rd-Party Eco-System Partner products makes this the most flexible and versatile Exchange platform ever. While this gives your organization an unprecedented amount of configuration and solution choices, it also brings with it more data protection, availability and recovery requirements. Read more.

Building and maintaining computer systems is no easy task and information technology managers are constantly looking for better tools to reduce the total cost of managing their data centers and infrastructure. Advances in computer, networking and storage technology allow us to separate the various parts of our infrastructure to specialized platforms. For example, storage area networks have allowed us to separate the data storage from our servers in much the same way that file servers are used to separate data from desktops and provide more robust management functionality like centralized backup and recoverability. Read more.