Southborough, Mass. – April 6, 2009 – Data center disasters are every IT manager’s worst nightmare; but that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Managing today’s complex IT workloads entails more than just data recovery. Workload management encompasses the hardware, operating systems, applications and data that underpin an organization’s IT backbone — an infrastructure that is more critical than ever for ensuring seamless business operations and, at the same time, is increasingly harder to manage. In response to these business continuity challenges, Double-Take® Software (NASDAQ: DBTK) today announced a new Workload Optimization suite designed to meet customers’ workload portability, backup and availability needs. This suite includes four products: Double-Take® Move, Double-Take® Flex, Double-Take® Backup and Double-Take® Availability.

“We’re aligning our business to best meet our customers’ evolving technology needs. Our new Workload Optimization suite exemplifies Double-Take Software’s focus on providing highly functional, non-intrusive software to an overloaded IT department looking to reduce costs,” said Dean Goodermote, CEO at Double-Take Software. “It represents our affordable approach to meeting customers’ migration, availability, backup and recovery needs.”

All of Double-Take Software’s flagship products have been unified around the new Workload Optimization suite, and have been enhanced with new features, functionality and licensing options. These product offerings are affordable, simple to use, and allow IT managers to easily migrate, backup, protect and more flexibly run physical and virtual workloads across their enterprises, regardless of hardware or location. The suite’s key capabilities include:

• Workload Portability (Double-Take Move): Move workloads between any combination of physical and virtual hardware (P2P, P2V, V2P or V2V) within datacenters for hardware refreshes, or across locations for datacenter migrations and consolidations.
• Workload Backup (Double-Take Backup): Continuously backup workloads and recover them on-demand to a new physical or virtual machine. Using CDP capabilities, recovery can also be done at the item level to any point in time.
• Workload Availability (Double-Take Availability): Ensure the availability of critical IT workloads for disaster recovery and business continuity using real-time replication and failover that can protect individual applications, entire servers or virtualized workloads running on VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Workload Flexibility (Double-Take Flex): Easily manage any workload by booting it from iSCSI SANs, regardless of hardware.

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