Businesses demand zero downtime, which is why so many companies are choosing DoubleTake from Carbonite. By keeping a continually updating shadow copy on standby, DoubleTake gives you the option to fail over to the backup at a moment’s notice, with virtually no interruption in service. Failing back is just as easy.
DoubleTake works equally well in a disaster and during planned downtime events like upgrades, patches and hardware changes. You simply move users to your identical secondary system — they won’t experience any interruption of service — while IT staff make changes, triage issues and test solutions. Your IT staff can take their time, without the pressure of impatient users and lost revenue. And, when it’s done, move everyone back.
With software located at both your primary systems and at the secondary target, DoubleTake initially seeds the replica. After that, the system updates incremental changes every few seconds.
- Bandwidth use after the initial seeding is minimal
- Impact to your live systems is negligible
- Data is encrypted as it passes over the wire
- Resource utilization at the target is primarily storage – virtual systems aren’t live until a failover
In the event of a planned or unplanned outage, DoubleTake can:
- Automatically detect the failure of the primary system or wait for a manual trigger
- Stand up the replica at the secondary location in minutes
- Redirect user traffic via DNS automatically
- Recover anything from individual files to a complete system or an entire data center
- Fail over to an early point in time, before a malware infection or failed update
- Easily reverse the entire process back to the primary site, at your convenience
With Carbonite DoubleTake Availability, you can protect:
- Virtual machines running on Hyper-V and VMware
- Physical machines running Linux or Windows
- Cloud-based Linux or Windows Systems
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