Case Studies
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Global Case Studies MLS PINMLS Property Information Network, Inc. (MLS PIN) decided to replace its 60 stand-alone servers with 20 clustered servers, each supporting dozens of virtual machines that run Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™ technology and the Sanbolic Melio file system. MLS PIN now has a dynamic data center which includes Double-Take that can quickly pivot to meet the demands of business and deliver reliable availability to customers, while reducing annual hardware-related costs by 60 percent and operational costs by 30 percent.
Jose Rojo, an Exchange administrator at ST&R, explains, "I sincerely could not believe my eyes when I saw not only the capabilities of TimeData but also the simplicity of the deployment - even in a Cluster environment! TimeData is a very simple and powerful database recovery tool indeed.” Littelfuse
LittelFuse is using Double-Take to protect their data in a very unique way. As part of their location based failover, they are replicating SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Exchange 2003 and three Windows based SAP landscapes all with SQL back ends. Then, as part of their VMware® migration project, they are using Double-Take with the Virtual Recovery Assistant (VRA) feature to handle a very large range of Windows based applications. MassHousing
Virtualization and Business Continuity: MassHousing had two fundamental challenges - 24x7 data access and support for a highly-complex IT infrastructure that includes SQL, Progress, Pervasive and Exchange, as well as a virtual environment featuring products from VMware. In the event of a system failure that prohibited access to data, MassHousing would not be able to provide any customer service, would be unable to transfer funds or share data with banks and would paralyze its own staff from completing its day-to-day work. In other words, data loss would necessitate a virtual shut-down of operations. To avert this, MassHousing selected Double-Take. Abbey Press
Complete Business Continuity: Abbey Press, a well-known provider of religious and inspirational goods, is a significant revenue producer for the Saint Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana. The Abbey Press web site is responsible for a steadily increasing portion of that revenue. With the promise of continued growth ahead, Abbey Press chose GeoCluster Plus to assure business continuity. Endocare
“We chose VMware Server and Double-Take because the solution allowed us to take realtime snapshots of the individual vmdk files and replicate them to another server for disaster recovery,” said David Avnaim, Director of IT at Endocare. “Doing so gives us the real-time data protection we were looking for (at a reasonable cost) as well as a quick and easy recovery process if another disaster should occur.” Read the full story to learn more. Metrologic Instruments
Dell Case Study - After testing a few products that turned out to be quite limited, Metrologic chose Double-Take Software for storage replication. “The first few products we tested either couldn’t do real-time replication of certain CAD files or couldn’t do bite-level replication,” explains Schwartz. “We kept ending up with numerous copies of the same file everywhere. That is not very efficient from a storage perspective. Double-Take solved those issues. Beyond the benefits of file sharing between data centers, effective replication also played into both our backup and disaster recovery strategies.” State of Nevada DMV
Dell Case Study - The State of Nevada DMV is working with Dell to upgrade its existing Dell/EMC CX400 SAN to accommodate new virtual servers. Additionally, it is working on a new remote disaster recovery site with a Dell/EMC CX3-40 SAN in Nevada. Double-Take will replicate data between the two locations to provide two fully redundant disaster recovery and production sites. “Dell’s industry expertise and alliances with leading-edge technology innovators such as VMware and Double-Take Software enables customers to leverage emerging trends such as server virtualization in their solutions,” says Wannetta Bernard, Production Control Manager for the DMV.
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Microsoft Case Study - In 2007, Chicopee Savings Bank engaged Innovative Business Systems (IBS) to help streamline its business-continuity and disaster-recovery plans. IBS helped the bank by implementing a solution to replicate data from its decentralized lending, accounting and mail servers to a new, high-performance disaster-recovery server. The result is a more stable system with higher availability, improved business continuity and disaster recovery, and greater capacity for growth. Chickasaw Nation
Chickasaw Nation must keep their data within their sovereign realm and therefore the Nation has its own disaster recovery (DR) data center in Norman, Oklahoma. Currently, they use GeoCluster to replicate their financial systems to the DR site and Double-Take to replicate the HR/Payroll system. They test their DR plan semi-annually and have successfully tested the financial systems without a problem and zero data loss. It takes less than 5 minutes to fail from the primary cluster in Ada to the DR server in Norman. They are also able to fail back their primary cluster with zero data loss. Carlsberg GroupCarlsberg’s Leeds operation is one of the company’s two major breweries in the UK. With supplies of ‘probably the best lager in the world’ at stake, Carlsberg couldn’t afford to leave their business continuity plans to chance. By implementing the Double-Take solution at their Leeds brewery, Carlsberg now has total confidence that their brewing processes will not be interrupted by IT failures, which in turn delivers assurance of continuity of supply to retailers and the nation’s beer drinkers. Disaster Recovery and Failover with Whole Server Recovery: Osler, a leading Canadian law firm, realized the vulnerability associated with tape backup and wanted to implement a disaster recovery solution that would protect their business continuity operations, protect critical client data and help eliminate human error if downtime occurred. After reviewing four software packages as well as exploring different ways to move data, they looked to Double-Take Software for real-time replication and whole server recovery. Given that this was a critical endeavor for Osler, Double-Take Software’s impressive customer service and support team were major factors in the decision. Failover and Protection for Exchange and BES: NCMEC is unique for many reasons, one being a 24-hour, toll-free Hotline for the recovery of missing children in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice. When a child goes missing, 24x7 action is crucial and the availability of business-critical applications is vital to that process. Like many organizations today, NCMEC’s BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) is one of those critical applications. Their BES allows for constant communication and information sharing when looking for a missing child. Therefore, uptime (or minimizing downtime) is an essential part of their overall disaster recovery plan. MWABank wanted to leverage the benefits of virtualization while providing a true disaster recovery plan with real-time data protection, high availability and recovery. After reviewing several products, MWABank decided that the combination of Dell’s hardware, VMware’s virtual machines and Double-Take Software’s replication technology was a no-brainer.Read their story today. Like many organizations prior to working with Double-Take® Software, BCU relied on tape backups for disaster recovery. Yet, while tape backup is a good tool for archiving, the IT team at BCU know that a true disaster recovery plan would require an easier recovery process, failover and strict RPO/RTO objectives. Today, BCU protects their physical and virtual environments with a strategically architected solution that combines Double-Take and Double-Take Server Recovery Option (SRO). Read their story today.
Reliable, fast recovery with failover: Like many organizations prior to joining the Double-Take® Software family, McWilliams Forge relied heavily on tape backup for business continuity. The catalyst for finding a better way to protect and recover their data came after having a severe production server crash. To recover, the McWilliams Forge team spent more than 40 hours rebuilding the system and though it worked, the recovery process was incredibly expensive, time consuming, and challenging for the team. As a result, McWilliams Forge recognized the need to provide an enhanced DR solution as well as 24x7 application availability for business continuity. Learn why they chose Double-Take Software.
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Disaster Recovery: When Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast in September 2005 the Mobile, Alabama office was forced to close for a week, and Hatch Mott MacDonald (HMM) was ready. HMM worked with Dell and Double-Take Software to create a plan and build a solution to meet their needs by using Double-Take. The plan was resilient at many different levels and centered around the creation of a secure centralized backup facility that would house replicated data from all of the company's North American offices.
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Real-time data protection and recovery: Prior to working with Double-Take® Software and VMware, S.H. Smith & Company did not have a solid disaster recovery plan. Without an updated disaster recovery plan in place, an outage could potentially have a major impact on their business. With the need for an enhanced disaster recovery plan to ensure business continuity, S.H Smith & Company looked to Double-Take Software and VMware for a reliable solution.
Or listen to the podcast: download Local high availability: Scan Alarms & Security Systems, one of the largest privately owned electronic security companies in Northern Ireland, realized the need for local high availability when their aging RAID controller failed, causing Scan to be without important customer data for nearly three days. Shortly thereafter, Scan purchased Double-Take for fail-proof business continuity. Read their story. Real time data protection and failover: Multimedia International Services operates the UK’s largest electronic point of purchase advertising network. With installations in many UK Post Offices, private hospitals and leisure facilities, the company helps up to 18,000 local businesses advertise on highly visible digital screens in a range of busy locations. After a SAN corruption kept them out of business for four days, Multimedia International Services knew they needed to eliminate the single points of failure within their IT infrastructure. After trying to do this unsuccessfully for seven months with a competitor’s product, they selected Double-Take Software and successfully implemented in a day and a half. They now protect Exchange, database, web, reporting, content management, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) with Double-Take. Remote failover with strict RPO and RTO objectives: Implementing Double-Take has allowed Brookfield to streamline their disaster recovery and business continuity exercises. Double-Take dramatically reduces the effort involved in recovering if an outage should occur and has given the team confidence that they will be able to minimize downtime and application interruption if something should happen. “Double-Take was able to meet our strict RTO and RPO objectives at a very low cost,” said Stephane Deschenes, Director of IS at Brookfield. Read the full case study today. Business Continuity: With a varied and increasing workload, further complicated by compliance obligations placed on the firm by its work with larger ‘corporate’ clients, McVey & Murricane (M&M) recognized the need for a more resilient IT infrastructure. M&M selected Xpedient Business Solutions as its preferred consultant and worked with them to develop and implement an innovative and cost-effective solution centered around Double-Take. Centralized Backup: With 11 sites set out among the major French cities, KPMG Audit, the leading French auditing firm, had to deal with a time-consuming and tedious backup process. Today, a centralized backup solution powered by Double-Take allows for a smaller number of servers making the backups easier to manage. Double-Take also provides a more reliable recovery process. Disaster Recovery: As more organizations rely on IT systems to support vital business processes and maintain essential data, the quality of services delivered to customers, members or shareholders can only ever be as good as the overarching infrastructure used to support the business process itself. Double-Take is now used between their two Scottish offices to support their disaster recovery plan. Failover Success with Clusters: SportsDirect, Inc. has been creating the sports content that people love since 1995 and with over 300 million page views a year, continuous product support and service development, SportsDirect leads the online sports information industry. SportsDirect ultimately chose GeoCluster because it provided both real-time replication with an excellent RPO, seamless integration with MSCS and the ability to execute hands-free failover from active nodes to the passive nodes in the event of an outage. Read the full case study today. Sharepoint, SQL, and Exchange Protection: Newfoundland Power relies 24x7 on file and print services, Exchange Server, their corporate website, Microsoft SharePoint and a host of other Oracle and SQL Server based applications. As such, sound business continuity and disaster recovery plans are an integral part of their overall data protection strategy. Read the case study to learn why they chose Double-Take Software to streamline their disaster recovery and business continuity exercises. Disaster Recovery: Ron Miller of eWeek wrote this case study titled "Recovery System Gets High Marks" after speaking to Bob Czeizinger at the Delaware Department of Education about Double-Take Software. After experiencing a catastrophic database server failure several years ago, Cziezinger looked to Double-Take to keep his systems running, regardless of hardware of software issues. Real-Time Data Protection: Even though continuous access to data is not an absolute necessity at Mack Energy, the company realizes the importance of protecting its data and having a backup plan in place should a disaster strike. Mack Energy has IBM ~®xSeries® 346, xSeries 360 and xSeries 230 servers running Microsoft® Exchange and SQL in addition to data file storage. It was a natural extension for Mack Energy to turn to IBM to solve their SAN needs for disaster recovery. After consulting with IBM and receiving a recommendation of Double-Take Software®, Mack Energy determined they had found the right solution for the real-time replication of its data. 24x7 Access and High Availability: When Suffolk University made the strategic decision to establish a new online learning presence, data protection and application availability became essential. With thousands of students using their new, online services model each day, a system failure that prohibited access to online data and services, would stifle the education of thousands of students from around the globe. To meet their needs, Suffolk selected Double-Take®. Exchange Protection: Tribune is a major source of news throughout the country. Its main business is information, which makes internal messaging an important piece of day-to-day operations. To make its messaging system easier to manage, the company decided to migrate all of its 22,000 users to Microsoft Exchange 2003. After migrating, an outage of any kind would affect a lot of people. Not only would the 22,000 users at Tribune potentially loose email, but it could also affect the loyal viewers and readership that depend upon Tribune as a source for up-to-the-minute news. Tribune sought distance-based protection through its IT integrator and through Dell. Both recommended Double-Take®.
Tim Malloy, has worked for the IRS for more than 21 years and is responsible for the servers and workstations for the appeals division. Listen to his testimonial about Double-Take, "It was the easiest decision I ever made. Double-Take just works". Video: Jesuit Tampa High School
View this video to better understand how Jesuit Tampa High School used Double-Take with Full Server Failover. Arapahoe House
Arapahoe House is Colorado’s largest nonprofit, community-based rehabilitation and detoxification center. They required a cost-effective solution to help streamline their operations, meet new HIPAA regulations, and keep their business highly available. City of Airdrie
Working with a DR consultant, the City of Airdrie looked at several DR products to meet their needs. One of the key requirements was real-time data replication and failover for remote availability. Once they evaluated the Double-Take® Software suite of products, it was an easy decision for the DR team. "Double-Take was a great fit for our organization because it provided all of the required capabilities for remote availability in one product," said Paul Hurst, Network Administrator, City of Airdrie. "Due to its flexibility, real-time data replication, and automatic failover, Double-Take was the solution of choice to complement our backup and restore strategy." Fuzhou Education Bureau, China
Double-Take Software provides software to support all of these business problems. Today, the Fuzhou Education Bureau Middle School Recruit Office has deployed Double-Take for Windows along with Double-Take Server Recovery Option (SRO) for two-to-one replication, failover and high availability. Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
After speaking with many vendors including SteelEye, Comdisco, and Veritas, Shorenstein Company LLC made the decision to install Double Take. Standard Bank (Banco Standard de Investimentos SA)
Standard Bank was looking for a reliable data replication and high availability solution for their Microsoft Exchange 2003 servers.
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