Double-take application manager launched in radical new approach to application protection.

Single application-specific console enables simplified management and increased application availability Sunbelt System Software, distributor of business continuity and security solutions for enterprises and SMEs, have announced a new approach to application protection with the launch of Double-Take Application Manager the latest development in the evolution of data protection and application availability. Sunbelt, the exclusive distributor of NSI Software Double-Take across Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, Korea, Australia and New Zealand, is now selling Double-Take Application Manager through its usual distribution channels. The new solution adopts a revolutionary application protection strategy by integrating the management of this protection into a single framework for configuration, monitoring and reporting. This provides increased automation and ease-of-setup, resulting in improved protection, reduced recovery times and increased application availability in the event of planned or unplanned downtime. Building on the success of the Exchange Failover Toolkit and existing support for protecting Exchange Server, SQL Server and other applications, Double-Take Application Manager will initially support Exchange Server and leverage proven experience of protecting applications and their data on the Windows platform. Double-Take Application Manager for Exchange is designed to automate the setup and configuration of replication and failover monitoring of Exchange Server. The new solution offers exclusive features including a protection Pre-Flight Chec, which ensures that the Exchange environment is configured properly for replication and failover. In addition, a new feature known as Configuration Cloning helps to reduce administration effort and minimise errors by automatically configuring the Exchange stores and settings on the secondary server. As the Exchange market continues to grow and dominate, companies are finding they need a better way to configure and manage 7that environment, said Heidi Biggar, Enterprise Strategy Group. NSI Software is a leader in this market and is taking the next steps by integrating new features into Double-Take, such as auto-discovery and the ability to monitor multiple IP addresses from a single console, thereby improving recovery times and higher levels of Exchange availability. Among several new features, the Application Manager for Exchange also provides an improved centralised management console and improved automated recovery functionality. Automated recovery capabilities ensure that users experience minimal downtime during recovery and that restoring services to the primary Exchange server can be done in the simplest way possible. www.sunbelt-software.com