Double-Take from Infogenics Consulting, the SA channel of NSI Software, has been selected by the newly formed Symetrix Business Continuity Services (SBCS) as its preferred solution for data replication. SBCS is the disaster recovery business unit in the Symetrix Information Technology Group.
The system has already been tested and implemented by SBCS for a customer in the financial services industry, who was in need of a hot remote disaster recovery site. Its plans include the use of Double-Take in similar implementations.
David Sack, manager, Symetrix Business Continuity Services, says: "A few minutes of downtime following a systems outage can translate into reams of lost data and unrecoverable revenues. The Double-Take software allows us to protect our clients from these risks by allowing them to recover from a disaster within seconds without any loss of information.
The product is easy to install, configure, and manage. Apart from the product's strengths, we were also impressed by the level of service and support delivered by Infogenics."
Double-Take monitors and records changes to files when they occur, it then copies them to one or more servers over a standard local or wide area network. In this way, it ensures that data is never lost and always protected. There is now a copy available in an offsite location. The fail-over capabilities of the product enables a secondary server to automatically kick in if the primary server fails. Double-Take makes use of standard TCP/IP connectivity thus enabling replication in real time, without any geographical limitations.
Chan Reddy, GM at Infogenics Consulting, claims the company is making strong in-roads into the local market with Double-Take, its flagship product. "We have invested heavily in building our staff's skills in the Sunbelt product range by sending them on international training courses with Sunbelt and its principal suppliers. In addition, we have the ability to bring skills into the country for select projects, as we did with SBCS," says Reddy.
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