Vision Solutions introduces Double-Take® 7.0

Vision Solutions, Inc. has announced the release of Double-Take® 7.0, its flagship solution for SMB, mid-tier and enterprise-level high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR) and migration across Windows, Linux and cloud computing environments.

Double-Take 7.0 provides both agentless and agent-based virtual server protection, allowing organisations to protect data, applications and servers in order to maintain business continuity in the manner that best meets their needs. Double-Take 7.0 also provides anything-to-anything migration with near-zero downtime, which makes it easy for IT organisations with heterogeneous environments to move data, applications and workloads between physical, virtual and public or private cloud data centres without affecting users.

“More than half of all data centre workloads today are virtualised according to IDC’s Worldwide Storage Software 2012-2016 Forecast,” said Ashish Nadkarni, Research Director for Storage Systems at IDC. “Many enterprises are looking more seriously at the Cloud as well. They need a way to migrate data, applications, even entire environments seamlessly between all three as their needs change. Double-Take 7.0 is the first HA/DR product to enable this level of anything-to-anything migration, which allows enterprises to place workloads where they make the most sense while protecting them against the types of business interruptions and data loss that can be catastrophic in our always-on, 24x7 world. It solves a growing challenge in businesses of all sizes.“

By expanding Double-Take to offer both agent-based and agentless protection as part of the same product, companies can reduce the amount of time required to manage their implementations while ensuring the overall HA/DR technology is always up-to-date. As a result, Double-Take 7.0 easily scales to protect hundreds of physical servers or virtual machines.

Other key features include:
· Customisable unified status reporting for all assets protected by Double-Take 7.0
· Near-zero downtime migrations independent of the physical, virtual, cloud or storage layers underneath IT workloads
· Simple, intuitive graphic user interface (GUI)
· World-class customer service

“Great care has been taken with this release to deliver a more powerful level of HA, DR and migration than has previously been available from anyone,” Alan Arnold, Chief Technology Officer for Vision Solutions said. “Yet it has also been priced competitively. Double-Take 7.0 provides great short- and long-term value within the ever-changing IT landscape. We believe it will set a new expectation for performance.”

Double-Take 7.0 provides HA, DR and migration capabilities for VMware®, Microsoft® Windows® Server and Linux as well as the KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V and Xen hypervisor technologies.