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Double-Take Software has launched Double-Take for Linux version 4.5, which enables customers to easily protect the availability of Linux-based IT workloads without requiring specialized or proprietary hardware and storage-based availability solutions.

 

The company officials while disclosing this said that the new version of Double-Take for Linux offers extended distribution support for Novell (News - Alert) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and CentOS 4 and 5.

 

Officials said that it also adds disk block-level replication to its current file byte-level capabilities, making Double-Take for Linux the only software-based product to provide both byte-level and block-level replication.

 

This new version of Double-Take for Linux, company officials claim this allows customers to protect data residing on additional file systems and within applications like Oracle (News - Alert), which leverage raw disk modes.

 

 “Double-Take Software aims to support our customers independent of their vendor relationships, and we’re pleased to broaden our reach to Novell SLES 10 and CentOS 4 and 5,” said Bob Roudebush, director of solutions engineering at Double-Take Software, in a statement.

 

Roudebush said that this new version also strengthens Double-Take Software’s position within the market by offering two types of data replication and providing customers disaster recovery solutions that are flexible and easy to use.

 

Double-Take Software is a provider of affordable Workload Optimization products that the company claims are simple to use and enable IT managers to easily move, protect, recover and more flexibly run critical IT workloads in physical and virtual environments, regardless of platform or location.

 

Earlier this month, Double-Take Software had announced a solution with Microsoft Corp. that enables disaster recovery for virtual workloads without the cost and complexity of shared storage or storage area network (SAN)-based data replication. 

 

The solution uses Double-Take Software’s GeoCluster to extend the benefits of Microsoft (News - Alert) Windows Server 2008 failover clustering and Hyper-V offering customers an unprecedented opportunity to have both a local and remote availability solution for their virtual machines using a single technology. 

 

GeoCluster provides the ability to create single site, or site-to-site, clusters using replicated copies of virtual machines, making quick migrations possible across geographic locations and also eliminating shared storage as a single point of failure, ensuring the highest levels of protection for virtual machines.