Protect and Recover SQL Server Data with Double-Take® from Double-Take Software

When Microsoft® SQL Server goes down, so do your profits. Ensure uninterrupted data access and productivity – with continuous data protection for Microsoft SQL Server with rapid recovery solutions from the experts at Double-Take® Software.

Complete MS SQL Server Protection with Double Take Software SQL Replication

Can you backup your SQL Server 24/7 without impacting production? How long would it take your DBA to get SQL up and running if the whole server crashed?

Most Microsoft SQL Server 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?

Double-Take, from Double-Take® Software, is a real-time SQL Server data protection product that saves more data and restores data within minutes. It provides organizations with a complete SQL replication and data protection solution that provides distinct advantages over manual Microsoft SQL built-in replication capabilities. With SQL replication features such as built-in bandwidth control and data compression capabilities, 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.

Double-Take® Software is the standard in data protection for Microsoft® Windows® applications and provides accessible and affordable data replication and failover solutions for disaster recovery, high availability and centralized backup.

Learn more about SQL Server data protection software by requesting a few trial evaluation of Double-Take, the leading SQL replication software for continuous data protection.

Augment intermittent backup with continuous SQL replication: Tape backup is a necessity for long-term archival, however do you want to recover your database from yesterday's backup? Consider the amount of data processed throughout the course of the day and you will quickly see why tape backup is not a viable solution for recovery from failures and outages. With Double-Take SQL Server replication solutions, your most current data will be available any time, day or night, for immediate recovery or seamless failover, reducing potential downtime to minutes or even seconds.

Protect yourself from everything with SQL replication – outages to disasters: Flexibility is key when designing and implementing a business continuity solution that includes SQL replication. Double-Take solutions allow you to implement the appropriate level of protection with a configuration that fits your environment. With enterprise class features to fully support optimal LAN and WAN SQL replication, Double-Take can protect your database from any type of outage from a server failure to a regional disaster.

Be sure to visit the SQL Server data protection on-demand webinars. They walk you through the SQL Server data protection solutions. Or view a 4-minute SQL Server Data Protection Flash Demo of Double-Take.

High Availability for SQL Server Data Protection - Protect against site, hardware, and regional failures with onsite or remote data and server redundancy. To ensure maximum productivity, the High Availability Solution replicates your data and services to another target server, located locally or remotely. Should the production server suffer an outage, Double-Take will immediately activate the target server, starting services and redirecting all clients away from the failed server. Failover often occurs without users even realizing there was an outage.

Protect and Recover SQL Server Data: Double-Take for SQL High Availability

SQL Replication to enhance Disaster Recovery - Protect your database against outages, natural disasters, and other crises. DoubleTake's Disaster recovery solutions replicate your data to servers at remote locations, either another corporate office or a third-party co-location facility. When an outage or disaster strikes, you will have immediate access to up-to-the-second data for rapid recovery of the production servers. Gone are the days of lost data and extended rebuild periods experienced with tape-based recovery.

Protect and Recover SQL Server Data: Double-Take for SQL Disaster Recovery

Protect and Recover SQL Server Data: Double-Take for Centralized Backup

Double-Take has an Industry-Leading Data Replication Feature Set:

• Flexible Bandwidth Scheduling. Limit network use of Double-Take during busy work hours and increase or remove these limits during non peak times for very efficient replication with the least amount of impact on production resources.
• Intelligent Data Compression. Improve performance and reduce network usage by compressing only the data that will benefit.
• Exclusive resource planning tool. Simulate your SQL replication solution and estimate the network and system resources you'll need to go live.
• Queued task processing. Insert commands in the SQL replication queue to automatically trigger remote backups, snapshots, or other tasks at specific times or in response to specific application events.
• Configurable Protection. Flexibility to reduce backup server storage requirements and bandwidth utilization by selecting only the business critical data that needs to be protected.
• Seamless, Error-proof deployment. We leverage both Microsoft and Double-Take SQL Replication  Best Practices for our exclusive pre-flight check which validates setup and configuration of replication and failover monitoring. Features such as auto-discovery of servers simplify the process down to four steps and reduce the risk of human error.
• Understand and minimize risks with thorough preproduction planning. Our thorough assessment of your network and SQL infrastructure identifies your critical servers and data, determines implications of server failures, and reveals the strategies required to meet your data protection goals.
• Optimize bandwidth use and control costs. Bandwidth is expensive, but too little bandwidth can slow performance to a crawl or jeopardize your Recovery Point Objective (RPO).Our exclusive Capacity Planning technology analyzes the rate of change in your SQL data to accurately estimate the bandwidth you need for high-performance, scalable data protection via SQL replication.
• Learn everything you need to manage your solution. During your entire Solution Set implementation you'll work one-on-one with a senior Double-Take Software engineer – a process that effectively transfers our years of experience to you and your staff.
• Get a fast, efficient deployment – for a fixed price. Your SQL Solution Set is a rapid, fixed-price engagement. You can be assured of rapid protection and realize rapid return on your investment.

46 SQL Server Databases Protected by Double-Take
“We now have peace of mind that we can recover from even the most drastic disaster scenario in a  relatively short time with minimal impact to our attorney’s and their clients. Double-Take protects the  work we do and protects our clients, no matter what else is going on in the world around us.” -- Dan Surowiec, Manager Global Technology Operations, Baker & McKenzie

Double-Take saved us $10,000!
“Double-Take saved us $10,000+ over tape hardware, media and related maintenance, and the savings we get with rapid recovery and data availability go beyond that.” -- Andy Bomboy, Manager of Network Technology, Hershey Entertainment and Resorts

Double-Take Application Manager for SQL

Double-Take Application Manager for SQL is designed specifically for configuration and management of SQL Server application protection. It automates setup and configuration of replication and failover monitoring of SQL servers for rapid and successful deployment. Features such as auto-discovery of servers and key SQL data files simplify the process down to just four steps and reduce the risk of human error.

To learn more, please click here to download the Double-Take Application Manager for SQL data sheet (PDF).

View the DTAM for SQL Virtual Demo (PPT Slideshow) by clicking here.

Exclusive features offered by Double-Take Application Manager for SQL include:

• Four step process to complete application protection.
• "Pre-Flight Check" - Ensures that the application environment is configured properly for replication and failover.
• "Configuration Cloning" - Helps to reduce administration effort and minimize configuration errors by automatically configuring the application data sets and configuration settings on the secondary server.
• Improved centralized management console - Controls the entire application protection process from configuration through failover, data restoration and failback.
• Automated recovery capabilities - Ensures that users experience minimal downtime during recovery and that restoring services to the primary application server can be done in the simplest way possible.
• Integrated Controls - Integrates standard Double-Take controls into the management console to reduce the need to use other management interfaces to configure the application protection environment.
• Configuration Change Persistence - The automated persistence of configuration settings saves time and effort and simplifies application protection management.

Double-Take is the only complete Microsoft SQL Server data protection and disaster recovery solution based on patented, proven, Microsoft certified technology. Double-Take Software is backed by years of experience in designing and implementing data protection solutions and designed to take you from vulnerable to protected in the fastest possible time.

With over 10,000 customers worldwide, Double-Take Software is the leader in data replication and data recovery software. When losing data is not an option, your only option is Double-Take.

Learn more about SQL replication software by requesting a few trial evaluation of Double-Take, the leading SQL replication software for continuous data protection.

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Be sure to visit the SQL Server protection on-demand webinars. They walk you through our SQL data protection solutions. Or view a 4-minute SQL Protection Flash Demo of Double-Take.

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