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Double-Take 101: Nope, we are not a cloud provider

Posted by brennels on June 28, 2010

Posted on http://userblog.doubletake.com/June 21, 2010 by miketalonnyc | Edit

“Ever since the introduction of Double-Take Cloud, we’ve been getting a lot of questions as to how our cloud systems are configured, where they are hosted, what type of VM hosts we’re running, etc. I thought it would be good to do a DT: 101 article on the fact that Double-Take Software is not, in fact, a cloud provider of any kind – which is saying a lot these days.

Everyone from Oracle to EMC is re-branding themselves as a “cloud company,” and for the most part they’re right on the money. Oracle has been offering Software as a Service (SaaS) for quite some time now, and EMC is a great platform to build a private cloud on (as are any of the other mass-storage providers). But this rush to re-brand as cloud companies can be confusing, especially when companies that make cloud-enabling technology (like Double-Take Cloud) can get muddled in with the cloud infrastructure providers.

So, for the record, Double-Take Software is not a cloud company. We do not host servers for Infrastructure on Demand, nor do we provide SaaS solutions, though Double-Take Cloud is pretty close to that last definition. What we are is a software company that makes quite a few technologies that can effectively power your cloud ambitions, and are used by many cloud companies as well.”

Read the rest of the article here http://userblog.doubletake.com/2010/06/21/double-take-101-nope-we-are-not-a-cloud-provider/

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Double-Take Cloud: Disaster Recovery Using Amazon Web Services

Posted by brennels on March 11, 2010

From Enterprise Systems Journal: Double-Take Software’s system state replication engine creates full image of a server workload in the cloud for rapid recovery

Note: ESJ’s editors carefully choose vendor-issued press releases about new or upgraded products and services. We have edited and/or condensed this release to highlight key features but make no claims as to the accuracy of the vendor’s statements.

Double-Take Software has leveraged Amazon Web Services to create a real-time workload recovery platform, Double-Take Cloud, to protect businesses from disaster and keep companies up and running without any upfront costs. Double-Take Cloud leverages the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

Traditional disaster recovery solutions are often reserved for those companies that can afford to build and manage a second data center, complete with back-up servers standing by in case of a disaster or outage — a costly practice that requires significant resources. Other IT departments rely solely on the capabilities of local tape backup, also a time-consuming process with limited recovery capabilities.

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Cloud 101 – Recovery as a Service (RaaS) is Here!

Posted by brennels on February 17, 2010

Recovery as a Service (RaaS) is a new cloud computing service model and is a combination of the three primary models – Infratructure, Platform or Software as a Service. However “Recovery as a Service” is utilized by companies looking to reduce the recovery time objective for their IT infrastructure backup processes. The RaaS model is an extreme benefit to smaller business that may not have the initial capital or experience to create a redundant or disaster recovery data center. The length of time it takes to even receive archived tape media from an offsite location and recover the lost server renders it an ineffective disaster recovery solution. With a “Recovery as a Service” model, companies can easily backup entire servers in real-time to a cloud provider like Amazon EC2 all for a very low cost service fee that includes the cost of software, hardware and storage. This isn’t a consumer solution like Mozy or Carbonite that backs up your kid’s iTunes. This is a big boy solution that allows companies to backup entire servers or data centers including the operating system, applications as well as the associated data.

In the event one of those servers or an entire data center is lost those replicated server images can be spun up in the cloud infrastructure and run from the remote location as if you had a duplicate data center with up-to-date data for maximum productivity. This provides a company a business continuity solution and the ability to service their customers even when there is an interruption of business critical systems at the office. When the original primary data center or server has been all the changes that have been made to the server workload running in the cloud can be replicated back and restored with minimal interruption. This is “Recovery as a Service” and it will be one of the fastest growing cloud computing trends in 2010.

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Cloud 101 – The Four Types of Cloud Services?

Posted by brennels on February 8, 2010

When the term cloud computing first generated a buzz it was typically referring to utilizing software as a service or otherwise known in the industry as (SaaS). Google is probably most known software as a service but then others in the social media industry rapidly shot up like Facebook, Twitter and My Space as well as other hosted applications that were more business critical. Although SaaS was one of the first technical adoptions of the cloud in the last few years, Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) have also become viable solutions and maybe more beneficial to companies than just software.

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Other than the search engines like Google, Bing or Yahoo what can these (SaaS) models do to help a company. The Social Media applications are quickly replacing traditional marketing like print advertising so this is one area but there are many other SaaS available that can help improve efficiency and productivity. Anything from website hosting, content management and or just a dependable database for backend infrastructure are all available for a quick deployment.

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Platform as a Service is more popular and mostly utilized by the developer community and was likely started with the introduction and popularity of Linux open source code. This cloud computing model provides a platform for developers to code, test and experiment new software without the complexity of setting up and maintaining test, development and production servers.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Infrastructure as a service is probably where many large companies like HP, IBM, Amazon and Rackspace are focusing their attention. This service model provides both companies as well as consumers the ability to utilize already optimized and maintained virtualized resources at a data center via a web service or VPN connection. Many will use this to backup, recover data files and or full servers in the event of a loss and that resource needs to be recovered. It can also serve as the primary server and actually run the application workload from this location alleviating the company IT staff of having to procure and or maintain the server infrastructure and or application expertise to provide that service. This is typically billed on a per use basis so only the resources, processing and or storage used is billed at the end of each month.

These are the big three but is there a forth that is already in progress. It is already being adopted by some companies as well as being discussed and that is Recovery as a Service (RaaS). Stay tuned for the next blog post Cloud 101 – Recovery as a Service: How it works

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