While SQL Server 2005 offers options for improving database protection and recovery, none of them is intended to provide a complete disaster recovery solution. In today's environment, corporate and regulatory mandates as well as service level agreements drive many of these requirements beyond what native SQL Server data protection options can provide.

Double-Take from Double-Take Software is the industry leading replication and disaster recovery solution, providing real-time data replication, patented database crash consistency, unlimited distance replication, monitoring and automated failover capabilities for SQL 7.0, 2000 and 2005.

Most Microsoft SQL protection strategies involve a nightly full backup of the data, typically to tape. However, this method only protects yesterday's work. Any data that has been entered into the database since the nightly backup is not protected and would have to be manually recreated if the production system failed. Since critical data is created and manipulated every second of every work day, you have to ask yourself: Can you afford to lose up to an entire day's worth of data?

A SQL Server protection strategy supported by Double-Take Software provides up to the minute data replication capabilities for all SQL data. Double-Take Software provides organization's with a solution for SQL protection that provides distinct advantages over manual Microsoft SQL built-in replication capabilities: Double-Take Software saves more data real-time and restores that data much faster.

With features from Double Take Software such as built-in bandwidth control, data can be replicated and restored over long distances without service degradation, putting the recovery and restore responsibilities for remote locations in the hands of the experts back at the data centre.

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