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Backup or Bandwidth? Double-Take(R) Customers Don't Need To Choose.


SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass. -- New product feature lets customers easily manage the amount of bandwidth used by Double-Take to protect data and applications

NSI See Network Solutions.

NSI - Network Solutions, Inc.
 Software, Inc. (NSI(R)) today announced a new product feature of Double-Take(R), the most relied upon solution for continuous data protection and application availability. Flexible Bandwidth Scheduling enables customers to set and control the amount of network bandwidth consumed by Double-Take to protect data and applications, making it highly unique among data protection products.

Protecting data and applications is critical to any business reliant on information systems. At the same time, so is network speed and performance. The Flexible Bandwidth Scheduling feature lets companies have the best of both worlds. A simple Graphical User Interface graphical user interface (GUI)

Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to
 (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ) lets IT departments establish a schedule that changes Double-Take bandwidth usage throughout the day or week. As a result, network performance is optimized, but not at the expense of data protection.

"We have thousands of customers. When they speak, we listen and act," said Jason Buffington, director of business continuity for NSI Software. "Our customers asked for a solution that would provide them with the data protection they needed within the bandwidth they have available. We delivered, first with the most robust compression method for replication and now with the development of Flexible Bandwidth Scheduling. The feature is yet another distinction for Double-Take against the competition."

"In addition to having iSeries(R) technical environments, our customers also have Windows(R) systems and look to Lakeview to provide a solution that handles all their high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue.  needs. They are aware of the importance to protect their servers against unpredictable circumstances such as power failures, network service disruptions and hardware failures which can compromise even the most reliable systems," said Bill Hammond Bill Hammond may refer to:
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, product strategy director, Lakeview Technology Inc. "Planned downtime, such as scheduled maintenance and system upgrades, also can interrupt 24/7 operations and cause costly delays. Our partnership with NSI means our MIMIX ha1 for Windows delivers iSeries users the peace of mind of world class data protection while maintaining the high performance of a customer's network."

Flexible Bandwidth Scheduling is available immediately.

About NSI Software

For organizations that depend on information, NSI Software, Inc. (NSI) provides the world's most relied upon solutions for continuous data protection and application availability. Its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Double-Take(R), is the most technically advanced software in the market and is the solution of choice for thousands of customers, from SMEs to over half of the Fortune 500. To assist in implementation, NSI offers a Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products.  team of Certified Business Continuity Planners who help architect, design and ensure a fail-safe continuous data protection plan. NSI also has strategic technical and marketing relationships with industry leaders including Microsoft(R), IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (R), Dell(TM), HP(R) and Sungard(R), and works with its OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and  partners and reseller channels to deliver comprehensive solutions and support to business users worldwide. Founded in 1991, NSI is privately held and headquartered in Hoboken, NJ. For more information, please contact NSI Software at www.nsisoftware.com.

Double-Take(R), GeoCluster(R) and NSI(R) are registered trademarks of NSI Software, Inc. Microsoft, Windows, and the Windows logo are trademarks, or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail,  in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are properties of their respective Companies.
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