Double-Take® Software Continues Advancement of Disaster Recovery for Virtualized Environments at VMworld 2006

Business Wire, Nov 7, 2006

Products, Services and Expertise Emphasize Company's Virtualization Leadership

SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass. -- Double-Take[R] Software will present the best of its disaster recovery planning and virtualization solutions at VMworld 2006 in Los Angeles, California. Throughout the year, a series of product and service announcements have made Double-Take for Virtual Systems[TM] a compelling product for ensuring data availability for customers using virtualized environments. This week at VMworld 2006, Double-Take Software will leverage its product and service offerings, as well as industry expertise, to show attendees how to further optimize their disaster recovery strategies.

First announced in February, Double-Take for Virtual Systems enables the use of real-time data protection and availability within virtual machines. Additionally, the new offering provides a pricing and licensing scheme that is more in line with customers' use of virtualization technology in their environments.

"In the past year, we've worked closely with Double-Take Software and VMware to deploy a number of virtualized server environments protected by Double-Take for Virtual Systems," said Victor Dellovo, president at Modcomp, Inc., a provider of IT systems integration, data acquisition and process control solutions. "The product's strong level of protection and manageability is appealing to our customers who are dealing with increasingly business-critical virtualized environments. What's more, the new pricing scheme fits their limited budgets - that's hard to find."

One such customer, resort hospitality provider Preferred Retreats, recently deployed a complementary solution offered to joint Double-Take Software and VMware customers that encompasses Double-Take for Virtual Systems with VMware virtual technology.

"Accurate, up-to-date and readily accessible data is critical to our operations," said Seth Copland, director of information technology at Preferred Retreats. "And because we work in a client-services environment, we can't afford to lose data or productivity due to a disaster or disruption. By using Double-Take for Virtual Systems with VMware's virtualization products, we can continue to work effectively and efficiently - even during a system crash or outage. We don't miss a beat, which is crucial to our business mission."

In April, Double-Take Software also announced plans to develop Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure, which is virtual machine replication and failover software for VMware Infrastructure customers. Following, in August, the company unveiled its professional services offering for VMware customers, which helps customers more easily deploy Double-Take alongside VMware products.

"A great majority of our customers have deployed disaster recovery improvements with VMware Infrastructure as virtualization radically improves the economics of deploying disaster recovery solutions through single-step recovery procedures, and independence from redundant hardware," said Hatem Naguib, director of global partners and solutions at VMware. "Not only does Double-Take Software capitalize on the technology benefits of VMware Infrastructure, but they have also released a new pricing and licensing scheme specially optimized for virtualized environments."

Double-Take Software at VMworld 2006

* Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure - Double-Take Software will be demonstrating a pre-release of Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure at booth #913. This highly anticipated technology runs outside the virtual machine context on a VMware ESX Server host and will replicate entire virtual machines to a secondary VMware ESX Server host - everything including the operating system, applications and data are protected and ready for recovery when needed.

* Support for Virtual Machine Importer 2- Continuing to promote best practices in virtualization, Double-Take Software is announcing support for VMware's new Virtual Machine Importer 2. Double-Take customers can leverage the new offering alongside Double-Take continuous data replication to move physical servers into virtual machines with greater ease and minimal system downtime.

* Disaster Recovery Speaking Session - Bob Roudebush, director of solutions engineering at Double-Take Software, will also be a speaker at VMworld's "HA/DR of Physical and Virtual Environments using VMware ESX Server and Double-Take for Virtual Systems: Architecting Your DataCenter; Building Business Continuity" session on Thursday, Nov. 9, at 2:45 p.m. in Room 403B.

* Double-Take Software and Dell - Double-Take Software will also be demonstrating Double-Take solutions for virtualization and Dell servers at Dell's booth, located at #227.

About Double-Take[R] Software

Double-Take[R] Software provides the world's most relied upon solution for accessible and affordable data protection for Microsoft[R] Windows[R] applications. The Double-Take product is the standard in data replication, enabling customers to protect business-critical data that resides throughout their enterprise. With its partner programs and professional services, Double-Take delivers unparalleled data protection, centralized back-up, high availability, and recoverability. It's the solution of choice for thousands of customers, from SMEs to the Fortune 500 in the banking, finance, legal services, retail, manufacturing, government, education and healthcare markets. Double-Take is an integral part of their disaster recovery, business continuity and overall storage strategies. For more information, please visit www.doubletake.com.