Unicorn IT uses Double-Take software to launch SMB business continuity service
Double-Take today announced it has enabled Unicorn IT, a provider of managed IT services, to launch a business continuity service
The service, Continue, utilises the real-time data protection and recoverability functionality of Double-Take to provide small and medium-sized business (SMBs) with enterprise-level IT continuity. Continue replicates data from an SMB's servers to fully managed target servers within Unicorn IT's data centre. In the event of server failure at the SMB's main site, delivery of IT services is rapidly transferred to the target servers, which hold an up to date copy of data and provide near-continuous service to users.
Ricky Reemer, managing director of Unicorn IT said, "Having used Double-Take Software to replicate data between data centres in our own business continuity plans, we realised that the solution could enable us to develop an outsourced business continuity service for our SMB clients. We discussed the concept with Double-Take Software and learnt that their solution had the functionality that would enable us to deliver the service cost effectively to end-users. As a result, we were rapidly able to develop and launch Continue, which we believe provides SMBs with very high levels of data protection and availability of systems, allowing employee productivity to continue almost uninterrupted after a disaster."
