Double-Take ShadowCaster^TM - A Local High Availability Solution Designed for Small Businesses

At Double-Take® Software, we remember what it's like to be a small business. We know your time is money - and both have to be spent strategically. We also know that protecting business-critical data is just as important to a small business as it is to the world's largest corporations.

That's why we created Double-Take ShadowCaster^TM for Windows® Small Business Server. Designed as a local high availability solution for small-to-medium businesses, it provides whole server replication and failover between a Windows Small Business Server and a standby system. And like the Double-Take Server Recovery Option, Double-Take ShadowCaster protects the entire server including the operating system, applications and data. Simple installation and an uncluttered user interface make ShadowCaster easy to install and maintain, even by non-technical staff.

Double-Take ShadowCaster continuously captures changes to data, applications, and the protected server's operating system. If the production server fails or is unavailable, Double-Take ShadowCaster can quickly fail over applications to the secondary server, either automatically or with manual intervention, allowing businesses to resume operation right away, with minimal data loss.

Download the Double-Take ShadowCaster data sheet (PDF).

• Whole server protection and failover - Protects the entire server, including the data, applications and operating system.
• Failover and Role Reversal - Automatic or user-confirmed failover prevents unscheduled downtime; provides the option of scheduling downtime for hardware upgrades or maintenance on the production server while users remain online with the backup server.
• Easy implementation and management - A simplified implementation and intuitive GUI reduces the time and skill level required to set up and maintain the solution.
• Real-time, continuous data replication - Uses byte-level asynchronous replication to capture data changes in real time and fail over with minimal downtime and data loss.
• Minimized maintenance on the backup server - Provides the ability to replicate system state information in real time and apply it to the backup server, saving time and money on maintenance.
• Supports dissimilar hardware - Can replicate files to a backup server that is not physically identical to the protected server. On failover, it applies the data and system state information to the secondary server, making sure to accommodate any changes required for the different hardware.
• Supports virtual to physical and physical to virtual environments - The failover process will ensure that the production server's system state and data runs on either the physical or virtual backup server without any administrator intervention.
• Broad Application Support - Protects the whole server so there is no need for specialized application support. This makes Double-Take ShadowCaster an excellent solution for protection most business-critical applications.