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combined customers and partners a greater choice of technologies from a single vendor. With the ability to cross-pollinate ideas and technologies, our combined engineering teams will bring our customers new levels of availability and data-sharing capabilities across multiple platforms. On top of this, we’ll have an even greater range of distribution capabilities and added depth via our eight advanced support centres that provide 24/7 global support.
Vision Solutions now covers Windows, IBM Power Systems and Linux platforms, as well as providing support for high availability and disaster recovery for the biggest server virtualisation products.
SNS: Please give brief details of recent new product announcements/technology innovations?
AA: We recently released Double-Take 5.2.
This release
brought many new features and functions to our industry- leading suite of high availability and disaster recovery products, including a new Unified Console for simplified management of virtualised environments, simplified licensing management, advanced clustering management, and many other product enhancements that are all focused on making our solutions easier to use by all levels of users within their IT environments. The 5.2 release is also the foundation for a major new version of our
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product that will be out in early 2011.
With our IBM products, we have just released a major new version of our MIMIX product, version 7. With this new release, we have brought many new features and functions to the market, including advanced virtualisation management, a new simplified visual work flow management process, the ability to run complete high availability environments from remote handheld devices (such as the iPad), huge performance increases, and many other enhancements. We are very proud of this release because it brings together many components from the three IBM HA companies we brought together for our customers.
SNS: In more detail, what are, and what are the advantages of, the recent updates to the Double- Take Product Suite?
AA: We have made updates across the Double-Take Availability, RecoverNow and Move products, including support for the latest versions of Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware. More importantly, the Double-Take products support mixed virtual and physical environments as well. We foresee that customers won’t be standardised on one virtual or physical platform approach for the next few years. Organisations are also beginning to run multiple hypervisors for reasons of
cost and support for specific applications.
This has an impact on business continuity planning: while virtualisation makes availability easier to attain, it does also bring in more complexity and different challenges. Using Double-Take, companies can have the same tool in place to protect all their physical and virtual machines, irrespective of the underlying platform.
The
alternative is using different tools for each platform, which brings in more potential gaps for lost data.
On the Double-Take Move product, we can now provide support for migrations to the cloud so that users can easily and seamlessly migrate their physical and virtual servers to and from the cloud. Administrators can use this capability to reduce storage overhead, reduce hardware costs, or provide an easy to use method for switching cloud providers. This ability to switch providers will be important in the future, as companies will want to avoid lock-in wherever possible. Users can also schedule bandwidth usage directly from the Double-Take Move management console, improving the product’s job setup process and overall ease of use.
On the disaster recovery side, Double-Take RecoverNow now allows an unlimited number of production virtual machines to be protected on a single host. This makes DR more cost-
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