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on an Oracle database. We looked at, and it was both while it has demonstrated its
cannot afford to lose a single easy to implement and value back to the
transaction from this system, manage,” commented organisation both in our
which is why we chose real- Strange. “Alongside our testing procedures as well as
time replication as the best business continuity testing real-world situations,” said
technology on which to base programme, we have also Strange.
our business continuity invoked Double-Take when
strategy. The main thing for one of our file servers The future
us is that all our critical data suffered a multiple disk Looking ahead, Strange has
is protected, whether this is failure. We quickly failed over several objectives, as he
the database supporting our to our second site, and used explains: “We are currently
Pulse implementation or our the replicated file server to implementing a move to a
email, file and other database support our normal business managed service provider -
servers. Double-Take collects activities. Overall, there was we will be using Double-Take
ay changes that completed so no impact on our day-to-day to replicate data over to this
VIN STRANGE 1-2-1
that we are as up to date as business.” partner site instead of our
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we can possibly be. Being a second office. In a way, this
regulated company, this is a Conclusion migration was a serious
critical requirement. Premier has expanded its use project, but nothing has really
of Double-Take over the changed and the impact of
Double-Take years, firstly by implementing the migration on our business
implementation a Full Server Fail-over was minimal. All our backups
Strange and his team began approach for its remote site. are held at the service
their implementation of “We implemented the Full provider’s site, and Double-
Double-Take in May 2006, Server Failover system Take continues to caputre
with the roll-out to the initial because it significantly changes and send them
batch of servers completed in reduces the amount of across the WAN.
June that year. Since that management required to
time, protection for further maintain the back-up and This has already proved its
applications and servers have recovery side of our business use, as an issue with one of
been added as the company continuity approach. By our servers came up just after
has grown and the data having the servers built to a the initial changeover had
contained has become more basic level, Double-Take can been carried out. The failover
important to Premier’s then automatically rebuild the process was carried out
success. Overall, Premier now complete application server exactly as planned, just as it
has ten servers protected for us and restart the had done when the remote
using Double-Take, covering machine, this reduced the site was based in ou second
applications such as Microsoft management overhead for us office.
Exchange 2003, Microsoft SQL considerably,” explained
Server, Oracle and Citrix. The Strange. “We are also migrating to a
company’s file servers are new file server installation at
also protected using Double- “Our overall experience with the moment, and w are
Take. Double-Take Software has keeping our eyes on the
been extremely positive. Our virtualisation market to see
“We chose Double-Take business continuity strategy where we can use this
because of the strong has evolved as the company technology to improve
standing that it has within the has grown, and our Double- company performance and
market. From our experience, Take solution has changed consolidate the number of
that reputation is well alongside us. The speed of servers that we run.
deserved: it was the most recovery that we have been
cost-effective solution that we able to achieve is significant,
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